Former Liberal Pittwater MP and Northern Beaches councillor Rory Amon has attended the Supreme Court today ahead of his two week trial over a string of historical child sex offences.
He has pleaded not guilty to five counts of having sexual intercourse with a person aged between 10 and 14, among other lesser charges.
Amon was arrested in August 2024 but has maintained his innocence throughout.
Prosecutors allege the boy, then 13, said he was 15 and later agreed to meet in person.
Amon allegedly insisted on meeting in a private place and led the 13-year-old to a bathroom in a car park on the Northern Beaches where the sexual assaults occurred on two separate occasions, prosecutors allege.
At the time, Amon was a local councillor and later rose to win the safe Liberal seat of Pittwater.
When he faced court in April 2025 prosecutors said further material from Snapchat, where Amon and the boy communicated, was expected to be served within the next three months.
The complainant, now aged in his 20s, alleges Amon continued to send him explicit images until he was charged over the alleged child sex abuse in August 2024.
Amon was elected to the NSW parliament in March 2023 and was the opposition spokesman on youth issues at the time of his arrest.
He resigned soon after, with a subsequent by-election taking the seat out of Liberal hands for the first time in 50 years.
Manly Observer will be able to provide full coverage of the trial through a partnership with the expert court reporters at Australian Associated Press, facilitated by the Local Independent News Association.
Please check back on our website over the next fortnight for updates.
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