1. Victorian MP reveals her husband was convicted for child pornography in stunning Parliament speech.
When Australian Conservatives MP Rachel Carling Jenkins uncovered her husband’s child pornography stash she went straight to the police and left him.
She now says Gary Jenkins is emotionally and financially abusing her – refusing to sign divorce papers, reach a property settlement or give access to assets.
Dr Carling Jenkins made the stunning revelations in a speech to Victoria’s upper house on Thursday.
She said she and her son found Jenkins’ “extensive collection” in the family home in February 2016.
“We were gutted,” she told parliament. “My marriage ended instantly and I left home the day I made that discovery and I have not returned to the family home since, except to pick up belongings.”
Jenkins was sentenced to four months jail by the Sunshine Magistrates’ Court in March and put on the sex offenders register.
Dr Carling Jenkins praised the police for their work, but did not think a “few months in jail” and being listed was adequate punishment.
Now, she said she cannot escape the man who already brought her so much pain.
“He’s used time apart to abuse me financially, emotionally and psychologically,” Dr Carling Jenkins told parliament.
However, Dr Carling Jenkins said the horrors of what’s happened was not about her or even her husband – but about the victims.