Mohammed Skaf

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Mohammed Skaf (born May 7, 1983) is a serial gang rapist. He helped organise and was a member of a Lebanese Australian gang rape attack squad in two of the Sydney gang rapes attacks in Sydney, Australia in 2000.

He is the brother of Bilal Skaf, the ring leader of the Sydney Gang Rapes. The group targeted white Australian girls in racially motivated hate crimes.

Mohammed Skaf had befriended his victims and lured them to locations where his fellow gang rapists were waiting. During one of the crimes, he stole a mobile phone from his victim and thrust her head against a toilet block before declaring "I'm going to fuck you Leb-style".

For his crimes, Mohammed was originally imprisoned for 32 years, but had his sentence reduced on appeal to 19 years with parole being available after 11 years.

However, on July 28, 2006 he received an additional 15 years, with a minimum of seven and a half years regarding a rape on August 12, 2000. (His original conviction over the attack was quashed in 2004 and a retrial ordered after it was revealed that two jurors had visited the crime scene to conduct their own investigations.)

Skaf has shown no remorse for his crimes, making sexually inappropriate remarks to female staff at the Kariong juvenile facility where he was incarcerated, and continued to blame his victims for initially agreeing to go with him because "they came out with us as soon as I asked them."

Mohammed Skaf will now be eligible for release on July 1, 2019.

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