A New South Wales member of parliament has told the lower house that a NSW government MP allegedly raped a sex worker in a “secluded lookout” in the Blue Mountains.
Trish Doyle, the Labor MP for the Blue Mountains, made the statement to parliament on Wednesday.
Doyle said she had been contacted 18 months ago by a sex worker who said she “had recently been assaulted in my electorate”.
She alleged the woman told her she consented only to oral sex and had been “clear with her client from the outset” and she did not consent to penetrative sex.
“She tells me she made herself clear that she was not willing to have penetrative sex with him, however towards the end the man moved around behind her and assaulted her in a way she had not consented to,” Doyle told parliament.
“They met at a secluded lookout ... in the Blue Mountains. In her emails to me, she said that once the assault began she just wanted it to finish. But on that she was emphatic. It was an assault, and it was against her explicit instructions. She did not consent. It was rape.
“It is all the worse that this man who raped her is a government member of this chamber.”
Doyle told the parliament that the sex worker had told her that she “agreed to meet a client who was travelling home from Sydney at a point along his journey north”.
“He had posted a wanted ad ... and was offering $200. It was an arrangement for oral sex only.”
Doyle told the parliament that the woman told her she was “worried about the impact on her daughter of a court case or investigation”. “She is hurt and angry that this powerful man felt entitled to assault her.”
A spokesperson for NSW police said the matter was reported in September 2020 and police were investigating.
“Detectives from the child abuse and sex crimes squad are investigating allegations of sexual violence against a woman in the Blue Mountains in September 2019,” a statement said.
“The matter was reported and referred to the squad in late September 2020 and has been under investigation since. As the inquiries are ongoing, we are not in a position to provide any further details.”
