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The jury delivered its verdict in Rory Amon's indecent assault and sexual intercourse of a minor trial on Friday. (ABC News: Jamie McKinnell)

Former NSW Liberal MP Rory Amon has been found guilty of the rape and indecent assault of a 13-year-old boy in 2017, after meeting him on a dating app.

The ex-member for Pittwater stood trial in the NSW Supreme Court this week on charges of indecent assault of a person under 16, and having sexual intercourse with a person between 10 and 14-years-old.

The court heard Amon connected with the victim on a dating app and first met him in person in July 2017, when they went into the toilet of an underground car park.

The jury deliberated for about four hours, and found the boy was raped and indecently assaulted at that meeting.

Amon had argued he thought the boy was 17.

The matter is listed for sentence hearing later this month.

The former MP faced trial in March on 10 charges relating to the same victim, but was found not guilty on eight of those charges.

At the time, the court heard those eight charges related to a second alleged meeting between the pair, which Amon denied ever happening.

The jury was hung on two of 10 of the charges, which led the Director of Public Prosecutions to call for this week's retrial on those counts.

The first trial heard Amon and the boy met near the boy's apartment block, and then went into the public bathroom, where Amon had the victim to perform oral sex on him.

Amon did not dispute that there was sexual activity at that first meeting, but said he believed the victim was 17, because that is what he had told him.

The victim said he told Amon he was 15, but was in fact 13.

Amon resigned from NSW parliament in August 2024 after being arrested.