A New South Wales (NSW) politician has been found guilty of sexually assaulting two young men in Australia.
A jury found Gareth Ward - who is still a sitting member of state parliament - guilty of three counts of indecent assault and one count of rape.
Both of the victims, who were aged 18 and 24, said they were assaulted at Ward’s home after meeting the 44-year-old through political circles between 2013 and 2015.
Ward resigned as a state government minister and from the Liberal Party when the accusations emerged in 2021, but refused to leave parliament and was re-elected as the member for Kiama in 2023.
The jury deliberated for three days after hearing nine weeks of evidence in the NSW District Court.
The trial heard Ward had invited a drunk 18-year-old man to his home in 2013 and indecently assaulted him three times, despite his attempts to resist.
Two years later, he raped a political staffer after an event at parliament.
Holy hell.
He looks like he’s imagining raping the photographer.
he looks like a deranged oompaloompa who fell into a vat of hair bleach, too.
He does!
c/rareinsults
He’s definitely a rapey looking dude with a touch of serial-killer thrown in
Not gonna lie, if someone said that about me, I’d probably start crying. This guy lives in a reality so utterly malicious and repugnant that even minor jokes about him breach social decorum. Jesus
You mean there are countries where people in positions of power are still held accountable for their crimes? Laws are supposed to apply to everyone? Imagine
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Damn he could make a great US president.
I mean, can’t judge a book by its cover but you can judge it by its veneers and sociopath glasses.
And that dead smile underneath those dead eyes.
Which ventriloquist did this nightmare escape from?
That face looks like the last thing you’ll see as the boot closes
Must have been an easy case seeing as nobody would fuck this dude willingly
banging an uggo is like a whole kink these days. it’s like the nsfw trashy subreddits.
Always the ones you most expect…
This man looks like the evil Karl Jobst.
I was going to say he looks like he could be Karl Jobst’s father.
…do you australian riff-raff not have laws about this?.. /s
