2 weeks Ago By Alex Mitchell and Jack Gramenz
A NSW Liberal MP and party spokesman on youth issues has been hit with a string of charges relating to an alleged assault on a teenage boy in 2017. Login or signup to continue reading Member for Pittwater Rory Amon was arrested on Friday morning at Manly Police Station and charged with 10 offences. They include five counts of sexual intercourse with a person over 10 and under 14, two of attempting sexual intercourse with a child over 10 under 14, two of indecently assaulting a person under 16 and committing an act of indecency with a person under 16.
Detectives started an investigation in June 2022 after reports of an alleged sexual assault in Mona Vale, which is within Amon's electorate on Sydney's northern beaches, five years earlier. They were told a teenage boy had been sexually assaulted by a man known to him. A strike force was set up in March 2023, the same month Amon was elected to parliament.
The 35-year-old was granted police bail with strict conditions and is scheduled to face court for the first time on the charges on September 18. However lawyers for the first-term MP fronted Manly Local Court on Friday after lodging an application to have his identity suppressed, a bid they later abandoned. Amon has been quick to rise in the Liberal party and was immediately placed in Opposition Leader Mark Speakman's leadership team after his election.
His posts have included stints as shadow assistant minister for youth, infrastructure, and transport and roads. Amon's term in the roles was listed on the NSW parliamentary website as ending on Friday, the same day news of the charges was made public. Mr Speakman was expected to issue a statement later in the day.
Amon narrowly scraped over the line to win the northern Sydney seat - long coveted by the Liberals - just beating teal challenger Jacqui Scruby with 50.66 per cent of the two-party preferred vote. He served as a Northern Beaches councillor between 2017 and 2023 before entering state politics.
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