Former Liberal MP arrested, accused of breaching bail

A former Liberal MP accused of sexually assaulting a teenager is back in police custody after being accused of breaching his bail conditions.

Rory Amon, 35, has pleaded not guilty to five charges of sexual intercourse with a person aged 10 to 14.

But Amon was arrested on Wednesday night after police alleged he breached his bail conditions. He will front the Downing Centre Local Court later on Thursday.

The former NSW MP was arrested at the Day Street police station, in Sydney's CBD, about 10pm on Wednesday.

Police declined to detail the nature of his bail breach.

Amon had been on bail awaiting a trial set down for February 2026.

He is accused of presenting as a 17-year-old after matching with a boy on a website in mid-2017.

Prosecutors allege the boy, then 13, said he was 15 and later agreed to meet in person.

Amon insisted on meeting in a private place and led the 13-year-old to a bathroom in a car park 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 on Sydney's northern beaches.

When he faced court in April, 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.

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