# Karma for Canberra child rapist John Paul Garay who thought a model train set could help him avoid paying his victim $700k. The judge wasn’t buying it

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/karma-for-canberra-child-rapist-john-paul-garay-who-thought-a-model-train-set-could-help-him-avoid-paying-his-victim-700k-the-judge-wasnt-buying-it/
- Published: 2026-11-04T00:06:40+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-04T00:40:48+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16201267/john-paul-garay-canberra-child-rapist-train-set-damages-appeal.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: World

## Key points

- Garay must pay $704,836 in damages.
- His train set argument was rejected.
- The judge said it would not overturn broader credibility findings.

## Summary

John Paul Garay has failed to challenge a court order requiring him to pay $704,836 in damages to a man he abused as a child. The ACT Supreme Court judge found Garay’s appeal argument about a model train set had negligible prospects of overturning the award.

Garay argued the train set was built years after the victim said he had seen it, undermining parts of his account. The judge said that detail related to two incidents among 15 alleged occasions of abuse over nine years, and would not undo the trial judge’s broader findings that the victim was credible and Garay’s evidence unreliable. The appeal application was dismissed with costs.

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