Gang rapist Mohammed Skaf working as cleaner, living in Greenacre
The father of Mohammed Skaf has revealed what the convicted rapist is doing now he’s on parole and where he is living.
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The father of convicted rapist Mohammed Skaf has told how the family is “whole again” since his son’s release from jail for his role in the infamous Sydney 2000 gang rapes.
Mustafa Skaf said his son is working as a cleaner and adjusting well to life on the outside after 21 years in jail.
“I’m happy, mum is happy, we’re a family again, we’re whole,” said Mr Skaf from his home in Greenacre, Sydney’s southwest.
“Things have changed. He’s working, it’s good, he’s cleaning. He’s very good at it.”
Skaf, 38, was released from Long Bay jail last month and was on Thursday seen leaving his home with his younger brother Hadi, sporting a branded Calvin Klein top and Nike trainers.
Skaf is living in a rear renovated annex at his parents’ home.
He is monitored 24/7 by wearing a Kevlar-coated ankle bracelet and his supervised parole conditions state he cannot enter the LGAs of Blacktown, Fairfield, Liverpool or Parramatta. He cannot consume alcohol or drugs, or leave Australia.
The conditions also state he must maintain his regular work as a cleaner until his sentence ends on January 1, 2024.
Skaf has told corrections authorities he wants to study architecture and plans marriage and a family after freezing sperm when he was behind bars.
He was a 17-year-old schoolboy when, along with his older brother Bilal, 18, he helped orchestrate some of their friends in rapes and sex attacks on seven women in the run-up to the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
He helped organise a shocking attack on one woman who was raped 40 times by 14 young men.
Then-District Court Judge Michael Finnane QC, who jailed Mohammed for 32 years and Bilal for 55 years, branded the crimes “worse than murder”.
A month after he was charged and jailed in October 2000, he was diagnosed with Hodgkin‘s disease, a cancer of the lymphatic system.
He had his sperm stored cryogenically, courtesy of justice health, before having chemotherapy and is said to have broken down upon learning the treatment would leave him infertile.
Skaf was denied parole three times since 2018 when he was first eligible for release.
He was sentenced to a maximum of 22 years and 11 months, after he and his older brother Bilal Skaf led a gang of men who raped at least six schoolgirls, some as young as 14, in parks and toilets across Sydney in 2000.
The State Parole Authority (SPA) said it would parole Skaf because its preferred release plans – supervised day leave from prison – could not happen during the Covid outbreak.
“There were, at one stage, two viable pathways – one has been extinguished by Covid-19,” Judge David Frearson SC said.
“The other leaves reintegration via parole.
“Everyone gets out eventually.”
The state submission to the SPA acknowledged some change of mind, with Mohammed Skaf stating “perhaps” the victim in the Gosling Park rape did not provide consent.
As well as reviewing Skaf’s prison records, the SPA also has to consider the views of Skaf’s victims, now grown women.
His younger brother has escaped conviction for drug supply after it was revealed he passed off paracetamol as cocaine to an unsuspecting customer.
Hadi Skaf, 22, was charged over the suspected coke deal in Surry Hills on June 12 but the Downing Centre Local Court has heard an analysis of powder seized by police detected no illegal drugs at all.
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