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<\/p>\nMetalcore band Parkway Drive’s former merchandise manager has avoided jail after admitting to having sexual intercourse with a minor.<\/p>\n
Jed Daniel Gordon, 45, the brother of Parkway Drive drummer Ben Gordon, was sentenced in Byron Bay Local Court today.<\/p>\n
He pleaded guilty in March to having sexual intercourse with a person 14 or over and under 16 years of age.<\/p>\n
The maximum penalty for the offence in NSW is 10 years in prison, or 12 years in circumstances of aggravation.<\/p>\n
During today’s sentencing hearing in Byron Bay Local Court he was given a three-year community corrections order and 300 hours of community service.<\/p>\n
He was also received a two-year apprehended domestic violence order and was placed on the child protection register.<\/p>\n
Judge Geoffrey Dunlevy said Gordon has demonstrated “significant insight” for remorse to be taken into account during sentencing.<\/p>\n
Gordon’s victim watched on via audio-visual link as the sentence was handed down.<\/p>\n
Band’s sixth member<\/p>\n
Jed Gordon toured regularly with the band and at one stage was described as its sixth member.<\/p>\n
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Parkway Drive sacked Jed Gordon and said the matter was “heartbreaking on a very human scale”. (Supplied: Destroy All Lines)<\/p>\n
The charge relates to incidents that occurred between November 1, 2002 and July 11, 2003.<\/p>\n
At the time the girl was 15 and Gordon was in his early 20s.<\/p>\n
Sexual assault\u00a0support lines:<\/p>\n
According to a statement of agreed facts, Gordon first made contact with the complainant via text message.<\/p>\n
He wrote: “Hey, I’ve seen you around, I think you are cute, we should meet up some time xjedx.”<\/p>\n
About a month later, she agreed to meet with him on a Friday night at Apex Park in Byron Bay.<\/p>\n
The facts stated he was leaning against his gold 1982 Mitsubishi Sigma wagon.<\/p>\n
He complimented her and flirted with her and asked her to go for a drive.<\/p>\n
They drove to Tallow Beach, where he parked, put on lip gloss and kissed her.<\/p>\n
He asked her to get into the back of the car, where they lay down and had sexual intercourse.<\/p>\n
The facts stated that between 2002 and 2003 they met several times and the act of sexual intercourse was repeated, always initiated by Gordon sending a text.<\/p>\n
In April 2003, the condom Gordon was using broke and he was concerned the victim would become pregnant.<\/p>\n
He took her to hospital to get the morning-after pill.<\/p>\n
Abuse caused trauma<\/p>\n
In a victim impact statement tendered to the court, the woman, now in her late 30s, said she had spent much of her life living with shame as a consequence of Gordon’s actions.<\/p>\n
If you or anyone you know needs help:Suicide Call Back Service<\/a> on 1300 659 467Lifeline<\/a> on 13 11 14Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander crisis support line 13YARN<\/a>\u00a0on 13 92 76Kids Helpline<\/a> on 1800 551 800Beyond Blue<\/a> on 1300 224 636Headspace<\/a> on 1800 650 890ReachOut<\/a> at au.reachout.com<\/a>MensLine Australia<\/a> on 1300 789 978QLife 1800 184 527<\/a><\/p>\n “The sexual and emotional abuse that he subjected me to has hindered my ability to navigate romantic, platonic, family and professional relationships,” it stated.<\/p>\n “Because of this I have experienced re-victimisation in emotionally abusive relationships, domestic violence or sexual harassment, assault and rape multiple times.<\/p>\n “I have been unable to care and provide for my children in the capacity that they deserve, as well as being unable to care for myself.”<\/p>\n Judge Dunlevy said he had to judge the harm of sexual abuse on children by the community standards of today, and that it was clear from the complainant’s victim impact statement that she had suffered lasting trauma.<\/p>\n Offence admitted in call<\/p>\n In March 2021, the complainant contacted Gordon and there was a series of online interactions between them.<\/p>\n In June 2025, they had a lawfully recorded phone conversation in which the offence was admitted.<\/p>\n Part of the transcript of the call read: “\u2026 as bad as it sounds, I wasn’t the only one hooking up with people.”<\/p>\n “I haven’t had anyone else reach out over the years and I didn’t, I didn’t know what I was doing, I was just a f***in’ surf dude,” the transcript said.<\/p>\n During his court appearances, Gordon, now unemployed and living in Byron Bay, sat alone in the courtroom.<\/p>\n His lawyer John Waller told the court his client has lost two jobs as a result of the court matter.<\/p>\n He said Gordon was a young man when he “entered criminality without thinking properly” and was a “different person now”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Metalcore band Parkway Drive’s former merchandise manager has avoided jail after admitting to having sexual intercourse with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,340759,134,274798,340757,340760,181399,340758,340756],"class_list":["post-699482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-byron-bay-local-court","tag-entertainment","tag-jed-daniel-gordon","tag-jed-gordon","tag-lismore-district-court","tag-parkway-drive","tag-parkway-drive-drummers-brother","tag-parkway-drive-merchandise-manager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}