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University star Monika Kent’s slide into an ice hell
SHE’S the brilliant award-winning university student whose life has been ruined by ice.
Monika Kent was top of her class at Sydney University and in 2013 won the prestigious Australian Psychology Society Prize.
But her addiction to the drug that is destroying so many young Australian lives led to her becoming a prostitute who was raiding mailboxes to find anything she could use or sell to buy drugs.
At her sentencing hearing this week for a string of drug and theft charges, Kent, 41, admitted she was still using heroin and ice daily as she promised to get clean.
Chief Magistrate Graeme Henson said it “beggared belief” someone of her privilege and high-achieving background could descend to such depths.
She was arrested three times in three months late last year, all while on bail.
She was often caught red-handed stealing mail or possessing drugs while high.
“As a criminal you are not very good at it,” Mr Henson said.
He asked Kent, given her expertise in psychology, if she could explain how she got to the point where she faced serious jail time.
“To this day it baffles me. I can’t give a logical reason,” she said.
Kent, who has gone into rehab, told Downing Centre Local Court: “I am very aware I am hanging by the thinnest thread.”
Mr Henson sentenced her to an 18-month good behaviour bond but warned her if she came before a court in that period she would be going to jail.
“It defies description that someone of your intellect would embark on this course in the first place. You have so much to offer,” he said.
Kent had a clean record before her first arrest in October 2013, for possessing $50 worth of heroin.
By September last year her occupation had changed to being a prostitute when she was caught stealing from mailboxes and hiding bank cards in her bra.
Kent’s lawyer Paul McGirr said her drug addiction had ruined her relationship with her parents but she had beaten heroin addiction in her twenties and could do it again.
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http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...into-an-ice-hell/story-fni0cx12-1227193741979
SHE’S the brilliant award-winning university student whose life has been ruined by ice.
Monika Kent was top of her class at Sydney University and in 2013 won the prestigious Australian Psychology Society Prize.
But her addiction to the drug that is destroying so many young Australian lives led to her becoming a prostitute who was raiding mailboxes to find anything she could use or sell to buy drugs.
At her sentencing hearing this week for a string of drug and theft charges, Kent, 41, admitted she was still using heroin and ice daily as she promised to get clean.
Chief Magistrate Graeme Henson said it “beggared belief” someone of her privilege and high-achieving background could descend to such depths.
She was arrested three times in three months late last year, all while on bail.
She was often caught red-handed stealing mail or possessing drugs while high.
“As a criminal you are not very good at it,” Mr Henson said.
He asked Kent, given her expertise in psychology, if she could explain how she got to the point where she faced serious jail time.
“To this day it baffles me. I can’t give a logical reason,” she said.
Kent, who has gone into rehab, told Downing Centre Local Court: “I am very aware I am hanging by the thinnest thread.”
Mr Henson sentenced her to an 18-month good behaviour bond but warned her if she came before a court in that period she would be going to jail.
“It defies description that someone of your intellect would embark on this course in the first place. You have so much to offer,” he said.
Kent had a clean record before her first arrest in October 2013, for possessing $50 worth of heroin.
By September last year her occupation had changed to being a prostitute when she was caught stealing from mailboxes and hiding bank cards in her bra.
Kent’s lawyer Paul McGirr said her drug addiction had ruined her relationship with her parents but she had beaten heroin addiction in her twenties and could do it again.
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http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...into-an-ice-hell/story-fni0cx12-1227193741979
