Thinkoflaura said:
I am ashamed to say that I know next to nothing about this case. What details would be unreleased, if there was a trial and the two were/ are incarcerated? Do they have private trials and records in Canada?
I'm sorry, just learning.
Think of Laura
The judge assigned to a trial can ask for a publication ban prior to the trial. It's an order prohibiting the media and the public from broadcasting the names of the victims and the witnesses. It's really only used here in high profile sexual assault/murder cases.
No, we don't have private trials in Canada. As a general rule, our courts/trials are open with the victims, witnesses and the accused person's names all being published. There are instances when the law makes an exception. The protection of the victim in a sexual assault case for one thing.
"As of December 1, 1999, the Criminal Code will provide that the judge may make an order to protect the identity of any victim or witness, or any information that could disclose his or her identity, if the judge is satisfied that the order is "necessary for the proper administration of justice."
"The Criminal Code also provides that a judge must order a publication ban to protect the identity of all victims of sexual offences and witnesses of sexual offences who are less than 18 years old. In these cases, the judge tells the victim, witness or Crown prosecutor that they may make a request for this protection. If a request is made, the judge must order a publication ban."
The details of the sexual assault and torture of Leslie, Kristen, Tammy and Jane Doe, what was on the tapes are what is covered by the Ban. That book is illegal here because the author published details that he could only know by viewing those tapes or from Karla.
What did these 2 people do, and how is it that I read that she will soon be released?
Didn't they torture and kill her sister?
Help is appreciated.
Paul was the Scarborough Rapist. He sodomized and beat several young women that he had stalked. Each rape increasing in violence than the last. He's a sexual sadist.
Yes, they killed Karla's little sister accidentally. They drugged her and when she passed out Paul raped her while Karla filmed it. Karla participated in the sexual assault. Actually Karla killed her by holding a rag soaked in an animal anesthetic (that she had stolen from the vet clinic she worked in) to Tammy's face. Tammy died when she aspirated her own vomit caused by the Halothane.
A year later, Paul abducted Leslie Mahaffey and took her home one night for he and Karla to rape and torture and then kill. Paul strangled her in their bedroom. A year later, they both abducted Kristen French as she walked home from school. Kristen was raped, beaten and tortured for three days until Paul strangled her once again in their bedroom while Karla watched and did nothing. Paul and Karla took turns video taping the sexual assault and torture of the two girls. The details of those tapes, which only the jury got to see during Paul's trial, are banned from publication in Canada. The public and the rest got to hear them so there are details in some of the books
Once the trial starts most of the details will come out except for what is under ban.
I don't think you will ever hear "tried by the media" in Canada.
I own Lethal Marriage and Deadly Innocence and I've read Karla's web and Paul's case (not worth reading I agree). There was someone a while ago on CTV that offered to sell me a Bernardo/Homolka book but I think it was "a pact with the devil" not this rare one.