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.
Which ventriloquist did this nightmare escape from?
Right winged politicians trying not to give you uncanny valley vibes.
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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…
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.
c/rareinsults
sunbleached all the melanin off him, in the australian outback of course. i know they cause darkening of the skin, but it can happen in reverse with sun damage.
He does!
The wild bit is that this is clearly a photo he took to promote himself as a politician and people actively voted for him. “Ohh that rapey looking serial killer dude is totally going to do good things for our community, I’m sure hes just brimming with empathy and a strong drive to achieve good things for other people …”
He also won re-election running as an independent, well after the rape charges were known and he was kicked out of his party and suspended from parliament. But that wasn’t enough for the people of his electorate to go: “Err maybe this rapist isn’t the best option to represent us.”
I do have a tendency to live in a vacuum, but news gets to me every now and then. This is the first time I ever hear of this guy and the rape charges, so whatever happened has to have been hushed to a degree. Not even top ten in australian politics until now I guess.
“I do have a tendency to live in a vacuum” <- this precisely is how politicians get away with it. And they don’t have to do anything. People just don’t look into things. Worldwide phenomenon. You are doing it to yourself.
Far out, I mean the rapist is a POS but that really says something about the liberal voters in that electorate …
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
Saw the headline, saw the picture. Thought “well, he sure looks like the shoe would fit…” felt a bit guilty. Came to look at the comments. Lol.
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.
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
Damn he could make a great US president.
The victims were too old. The GOP would not allow this.
That face looks like the last thing you’ll see as the boot closes
Or trunk, for Americans. It took me way too long to get that.
He’s Strayan so I figured I’d use their terminology
is he albino.
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
