A MEDICAL science student who moonlighted as a teenage prostitute told a psychiatrist she chose to work in the sex industry and sell drugs to pay for cosmetic surgery.

A court today heard Madeline Christine Sawyer, 18, of Campbelltown jumped on a train to Kings Cross one day because it was the “riskiest,” place.

She then planned to use the money from selling drugs and her work as a prostitute to pay for dental work and cosmetic procedures.

But the Western Sydney University’s student double-life was exposed when police raided her home and found cocaine, MDMA and methyl amphetamine in October last year.

At Campbelltown District Court this morning she was sentenced to an 18-month Intensive Correction Order after pleading guilty to three counts of supplying drugs.

Sawyer cried throughout her sentencing as Judge John Pickering recounted her interview with a psychiatrist about her history of eating disorders and her descent into sex work.

“When she was just 18 she turned to performing sex work in Kings Cross, she just jumped on a train and went to the riskiest place.

“Money was the motive, to make money out of the industry but also risk-taking to make her feel better,” Judge Pickering said.

The court heard how she was exposed to drugs working as a prostitute and became a heavy user of the drug “ice”.

“It became just part of the industry she worked in,” Judge Pickering said.

“Her fellow workers, the people she formed friendships with are ultimately using drugs as well.”

Equally the clients engaging in that industry are themselves interested in drugs and using drugs and trying to source the drugs from the girls.”

Sawyer told the psychiatrist that she started to buy drugs for herself in bulk to “get a better deal” but fell into the “temptation” of supplying to others.

She was caught when police pulled over a car she was a passenger in at Campbelltown on October 9 last year.

Officers allegedly found the driver, Fadhil Al Khafaji, 20, with two capsules believed to be the drug MDMA.

The pair’s mobile phones were seized which allegedly contained text messages between the two and two others discussing the supply of drugs.

In one text Sawyer sent to an unknown person she wrote: “OMG so I just bought 50 pills to sell what is wrong with me.”

Sawyer’s Campbelltown home where she lived with her mother was raided by police who found 28 capsules of MDMA powder, 15 resealable bags containing a total of 10.62 grams of cocaine and 10.75 grams of methamphetamine.

During the raid, officers also found more than $3000 in cash which she told them she had earned as a prostitute.

Judge Pickering said the fact Sawyer was supplying three different types of drugs indicated she was someone, “who was open to the supply of any drugs she could get her hands on and was extremely reckless about the type of drugs she was disseminating out into society.”

However Judge Pickering decided not to impose a fulltime custodial sentence and instead ordered she serve an 18 month sentence in the community under an Intensive Corrections Order.

He said her youth, strong prospects for rehabilitation and the fact she had gone into rehabilitation and was no longer on drugs or working as a prostitute persuaded him to show leniency.

Sawyer’s mother sobbed with relief after she was sentenced.

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