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Rory Amon faces retrial over alleged abuse of a 13-year-old
Former NSW MP Rory Amon is facing a retrial over two charges involving alleged sexual activity with a 13-year-old boy.
The alleged incident took place in 2017 in a toilet in a car park beneath the boy’s parents’ apartment on Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
Amon has pleaded not guilty, and the defence accepts that sexual activity occurred but says the boy did not tell him his age.
The first jury could not reach verdicts on these two charges, while it acquitted Amon of other charges involving the same complainant.
The central issue is whether Amon honestly and reasonably believed the boy was at least 16, the age of consent.
The complainant’s recorded testimony from the first trial is being played to the jury in the retrial.
The case is continuing before the NSW Supreme Court.
Former New South Wales MP Rory Amon is facing a retrial over alleged sexual offences involving a 13-year-old boy in 2017.
Amon has pleaded not guilty to sexual intercourse with and indecently assaulting the boy.
The retrial began in the NSW Supreme Court on Monday, November 9, 2026.
The first jury acquitted Amon of other alleged offences against the same complainant but could not reach verdicts on the two charges now being retried.
The central issue is whether Amon honestly and reasonably believed the boy was at least 16, the age of consent.
- Who
- Former NSW MP Rory Amon and a boy who was 13 at the time of the alleged offences.
- What
- Amon is facing a retrial on charges of sexual intercourse with and indecently assaulting the boy. He has pleaded not guilty.
- When
- The alleged offences took place in 2017. The retrial began on November 9, 2026.
- Where
- In a car park toilet beneath the boy’s parents’ apartment block on Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
- Why
- The first jury could not reach verdicts on the two charges. The central issue is whether Amon honestly and reasonably believed the boy was at least 16.
The Crown
Amon's defence
Age told to Amon
The Crown
The complainant believes he told Amon he was 15.
Amon's defence
Amon's case is that the boy told him he was 17 and never informed him of his age.
Belief about age
The Crown
The Crown alleges Amon sexually abused a 13-year-old.
Amon's defence
The defence says Amon honestly and reasonably believed the complainant was at least 16.
Amon and the boy connected on an adult hook-up site and allegedly met at the boy’s apartment block.
The complainant learnt Amon’s identity after a photo of him circulated online.
The complainant, then 18, made a formal report to police.
Amon was charged.
Amon was acquitted of other alleged offences against the same complainant, while the jury could not reach verdicts on the two charges being retried.
The retrial began in the NSW Supreme Court.
- Defendant
- Rory Amon, 37
- Complainant's age
- 13 at the time of the alleged offences
- Year of alleged offences
- 2017
- Charges being retried
- Sexual intercourse with and indecently assaulting the complainant
- Age of consent at issue
- 16
What people are saying
at no stage did [the complainant] ever inform him of his age
If the accused had a reasonable and honest belief [the teenager] was at least 16, then that is an innocent state of mind