A NSW state MP has been hit with a string of child-sexual charges relating to an alleged assault on a teenage boy in 2017.
The MP was arrested on Friday morning at Manly police station in Sydney and charged with 10 offences.
They include five counts of sexual intercourse with a person over 10 and under 14, two counts of attempting sexual intercourse with a child over 10 under 14, two counts of indecently assaulting a person under 16 and committing an act of indecency with a person under 16.
Police said detectives started an investigation in June 2022 after reports of an alleged sexual assault in Mona Vale, on Sydney’s northern beaches, five years earlier.
They were told a teenage boy had been allegedly sexually assaulted by a man who was known to him.