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MP exchanged lewd messages with sex worker during NSW question time
NSW Nationals MP Michael Johnsen offered a sex worker $1,000 to attend state parliament for sex and sent the woman a string of lewd text messages and an obscene video while parliament was sitting, an ABC investigation can reveal.
Mr Johnsen has strenuously denied allegations made in NSW Parliament this week that he sexually assaulted the woman at a lookout in the Blue Mountains in September, 2019.
The NSW Police Sex Crimes Squad is investigating the alleged sexual assault and are yet to decide whether to lay charges.
WARNING: EXPLICIT LANGUAGE AND SEXUAL CONTENT
On Wednesday, Labor MP Trish Doyle used parliamentary privilege to detail the rape allegations.
She did not name Mr Johnsen, saying only it was a member of the Coalition…
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