Jaina Tobias Jansen was the wife of sexual assault victim Wesley Jansen, and the prime suspect of the murder of Cal Oman.
History[]
When Jaina was ten years old, her father murdered her mother before committing suicide. She moved in with an aunt, whose boyfriend sexually assaulted her. She later met a boy named Wesley Jansen, who was younger but fell in love with her mostly because no one else had much respect for her and believed her to be vulnerable. They pursued a relationship that was met with disapproval from his parents. However, Wesley and Jaina ran away from home and eloped.
Not long after they got married, she convinced him to run into moving with her to New York. There, she gave birth to a girl named Mara, who was born with cystic fibrosis. She had to make pornographic videos with her husband to pay for her daughter's medical bills, sometimes bringing her daughter to work.
When Wesley's parents tracked them after he was sexually assaulted by a gang, they found the couple at the precinct where they were still resentful of Jaina and wanted custody of Mara. In response, Jaina and Wesley refused and threatened to kill them in front of Detective Benson if they ever saw them again. Later, after Wesley was arrested and nearly took the blame for Jaina until he was talked out of it, Mara was sent to her grandparents, Jaina tried to escape to Los Angeles, but was caught by Benson and Detective Stabler. She explained to them that she was tired of her job and of having to take care of Mara, despite loving her and Wesley, whilr she believed that she could get a contract as an actress in Las Vegas with the promise of more money for a new start. Jaina was then formally arrested for the murder of her boss, Cal Oman, who was blackmailing her into staying in the pornography video business. She claimed that she shot her boss in self-defense, even though evidence showed his back was turned on her at the time he was shot. Jaina was eventually convicted and sentenced to fifteen years in prison. Wesley was released while devastated by his wife's attempt to leave, both he and Mara presumably moved in with his financially stable parents to get by. (SVU: "Sacrifice")