A former pro basketballer and model turned drug addict is expected to be given another chance to reform, or face jail.
Subscribe now for unlimited access.
$0/
(min cost $0)
or signup to continue reading
But Janna Maree Sladic, 28, will not be handed a deferred sentence until a bed can be found for her at a residential rehabilitation facility.
Sladic appeared before the ACT Supreme Court on Wednesday having breached a three year suspended jail sentence she was serving for robbing a Hawker KFC outlet at knifepoint in November 2011.
Sladic earlier this month pleaded guilty to burglary, trespass, possessing stolen property, escape from arrest or custody and driving while unlicensed.
She was caught after a passer-by noticed her climbing onto a second-storey balcony of a Hawker home in August last year.
Police were called and they entered the home, finding Sladic hiding behind a door in the laundry.
She allegedly tried to run as police attempted to search her.
Justice Richard Refshauge released Sladic in December 2012 to attend a Melbourne rehabilitation centre, having suspended her jail sentence upon her entering into a two-year good-behaviour order.
But she told a sentencing hearing on Thursday she fell back into drugs while waiting for rehabilitation arrangements to be made.
"Where I stuffed up was believing I could fix this drug addiction myself," Sladic said.
[But] I can't fix it myself.
"Having a heroin addiction is a lot more full on than I can handle myself."
Sladic told Justice Refshauge she had found God and now understood she needed help to beat her heroin addiction.
"I came to [that] harsh realisation when I got locked up this time."
Sladic admitted she was scared of where she could end up if she continued making bad choices, but said she was not willing to settle for a life of drugs and jail.
The court heard she was on the waiting list to enter the Karralika residential rehabilitation centre in Canberra, and two other facilities interstate.
Her defence barrister urged the judge to issue a deferred sentence order.
He said offenders would often have multiple attempts at rehabilitation before they beat their addictions.
The defence argued the community would reap the benefits if Sladic went straight.
Justice Refshauge indicated he would impose a deferred sentence, but would not hand down his decision until a bed became available.
The judge said Sladic would stay behind bars until that time.