GUILTY Canada - Paul Bernardo & Karla Homolka, murdered, 1993

[bluesneakers]

Mr French is more forgiving than I.

But I think you understand how forgiveness is necessary if you want to move forward after a tragedy. :heartbeat:

 

[flourish]

But I think you understand how forgiveness is necessary if you want to move forward after a tragedy. [emoji813]beat:

Oh yeah totally. How I feel about my own child's murderer may vary from how I feel about this one for sure. Mine started as an attempt to not let it consume and ruin me. I don't let my hate for Karla and Paul consume me I just don't forgive them.... Yet if ever

 

[Koshka]

http://www.citynews.ca/2017/05/30/e...lly-volunteers-at-montreal-elementary-school/

IMO: I don't care if she "can never be alone with children," the idea of her being a school volunteer where my kids (or anyone's kids!) would be around her - a woman who sexually assaulted and murdered young women including her own sister - NOPE. Absolutely not. My kids would be out of that school faster than you can say "psycho killer should still be in prison."

 

[Hazel]

Parents who criticized Karla Homolka say school asked them to leave
:notgood:

Several parents told the Montreal Gazette they only became aware of Homolka's involvement with their school after a man, who called himself a concerned citizen, passed out leaflets to parents back in March. One parent, who tried to raise the issue with the school, was told he would not be welcome back when the new school year starts in September.

Maraj said he started discussing Homolka's presence with other parents in April, and on May 2, he received a letter that he would not be welcomed back in September.

Stéphanie Deligne, whose daughter attends Grade 4 at the school and is in a class with one of Homolka's children, said she would have liked to have been informed about the situation.

"It's really unacceptable," Deligne said. "My daughter was playing with the dog of Karla Homolka, and I was right next to her, but I didn't know who she was."

She said she was angry to hear Homolka is regularly allowed into the school, and that she brought her dog inside.

"Now, I just bring her into the school, and I don't let her play outside because (Homolka regularly) brings the dog."

Deligne was told that she too would have to find another school in September.

"The administration told me I am being too critical," she said.

The Montreal Gazette had contacted Greaves Adventist Academy about Homolka’s alleged involvement with the school on May 17. At the time, school superintendent Marc Bouzy said the academy hadn’t received any complaints about Homolka.

RS&BBM

http://www.torontosun.com/2017/05/3...-karla-homolka-say-school-asked-them-to-leave

 

[dotr]

In related news..
May 31 2017
http://www.torontosun.com/2017/05/31/families-brace-for-paul-bernardo-parole-hearing

TORONTO - The families of Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy are bracing themselves for what they know is going to be a difficult summer.

Round one for Doug French was hearing Karla Homolka has been volunteering at the school her kids attend. But round two is coming in a couple of months, when Homolka’s killer ex-husband Paul Bernardo makes his bid for parole — some 25 years after the murders of his daughter and Mahaffy.

French is not looking forward to it.

He can’t even understand why Bernardo’s getting one.

“I thought he was determined a dangerous offender? But everybody gets a parole hearing.”

French said he’s preparing for the worst.

“You mark my words, he will get a day pass or an afternoon pass or something,” he said. “I suspect it will happen.”

The thought of it makes him sick.

“You have to put up with it,” the dad said of the kind of breaks Homolka seems to keep getting and what he fears could be in store for Bernardo.

 

[matou]

O Canada! What the **** are you doing? Teachers must go through annual offence declarations, get fingerprinted before they are hired (IF you happen to have the same name as a criminal or a date of birth that coincides with someone who has committed a major crime) and pay for complete criminal profile checks (as a student teacher and when hired at a school board). BUT.......allows a known child rapist and child murderer to volunteer at a school. How did she get by the criminal profile check???

 

[dotr]

http://montrealgazette.com/opinion/...-the-victim-but-what-about-leslie-and-kristen

Allison Hanes: Karla Homolka plays the victim, but what about Leslie and Kristen?

Published on: May 31, 2017

Now, all these years later and a parent myself, I’m compelled to contemplate Homolka’s terrible legacy.

I do feel for Homolka’s children. They don’t deserve scrutiny or ostracism. But, I’m sorry, their mother does. Her children’s innocence is not justification for absolving Homolka of her sins. That would be letting her off the hook. But we can’t simply look the other way, as we do most of the time, when the safety of other children could be at stake.

Dropping off her kids at school is one thing. Participating in activities is quite another, even if the Greaves Academy says she was never alone with children. A quick Google search will tell you everything you need to know about why this is appalling.

We’re not talking about shoplifting or an impaired driving record. She helped prey on and sexually assault schoolgirls — including her own sister, whom she offered to Bernardo as a Christmas “gift.” Does anyone ever fully overcome such deviance? However remote the possibility she could reoffend, should we risk finding out?

Homolka’s haughty attitude every time she is confronted with her sordid past betrays no hint of shame or remorse. She’s the victim all over again. It’s all about her. Her life. Her rights. Her kids.

 

[Kamille]

O Canada! What the **** are you doing? Teachers must go through annual offence declarations, get fingerprinted before they are hired (IF you happen to have the same name as a criminal or a date of birth that coincides with someone who has committed a major crime) and pay for complete criminal profile checks (as a student teacher and when hired at a school board). BUT.......allows a known child rapist and child murderer to volunteer at a school. How did she get by the criminal profile check???

Are the rules somehow different for a Christian private school?

And how does KH and her husband afford the tuition of approximately $15,000 per year for their three children? Has anyone ever figured out what either of them do for a living?

:waitasec:

 

[Kamille]

Is convicted killer Karla Homolka legally allowed to volunteer in schools?

http://globalnews.ca/news/3493189/i...olka-legally-allowed-to-volunteer-in-schools/

 

[Sherwood Park]

Are the rules somehow different for a Christian private school?

And how does KH and her husband afford the tuition of approximately $15,000 per year for their three children? Has anyone ever figured out what either of them do for a living?

:waitasec:

That's what I've been wondering. Who is paying for her children's tuition and fees? I can't imagine anyone hiring Karla Homolka, but you never know. There are some people who just don't seem to care about having an unrepentant murderer as an employee.

 

[Sjm_qc]

I am ABSOLUTELY OUTRAGED at the recent news about Karla. Words fail me

 

[JayFriend]

Worth listening to.
https://omny.fm/shows/charles-adler-tonight/charles-adler-tonight-karla-homolka-the-new-story

 

[dyannaON]

So much in the news this week on these monsters.
http://m.torontosun.com/2017/05/31/families-brace-for-paul-bernardo-parole-hearing



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[dyannaON]

Karla can no longer volunteer! I guess that is a small victory.

I think. I just re-read and I'm not really sure tbh.
http://www.cp24.com/mobile/news/con...nteer-at-montreal-elementary-school-1.3440283



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[dyannaON]

I wonder what she tells her children what all the fuss is about.


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[Nutmeg_916]

She is a True Psychopath. She's never had any shame or contrition about what she did. If I recall correctly, she participated and did the actual killing of the girls.

Of course the parents didn't raise objections before. They weren't given any information! I was under the impression part of her plea deal was that she couldn't be around children. Or in Canada are those more like guidelines?

This is insanity.

 

[matou]

So I hear the school is a private 7th day Adventist school. Maybe they allow anyone to volunteer without any criminal background checks.

 

[Nutmeg_916]

In Canada, can victims families sue a perpetrator in court? (In the US you can take this to court, a'la OJ's victims) Seems like she's not hurting for money, and worked as an ESL teacher.

I'm hoping the families of these girls can use the court to get a small amount of justice the Crown didn't give them.

 

[dotr]

Lengthy article.
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...hounded-for-the-rest-of-her-life-dimanno.html
By Rosie DiMannoColumnist
Fri., June 2, 2017

[h=1]Karla Homolka should be hounded for the rest of her life: DiManno[/h]It must eat Paul Bernardo up knowing that his partner-in-crime is footloose and free.

Following his 1995 trial and conviction in the slayings of teenagers Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy, Bernardo confessed to raping 14 women. Later still, the “Scarborough Rapist” admitted to his lawyer that he’d raped 10 others.

But the clock has been ticking, no doubt more slowly for incarcerated Bernardo than the rest of us.

Unless Bernardo pulls back, as he’s done once before, the schoolgirl killer has a date with the parole board in August.

He is seeking day parole. He becomes eligible for full parole on Feb. 17, 2018.

It must eat the monster up, aging now into his 50s, stuck in his cell at Millhaven penitentiary, probably going to die behind bars, knowing that his partner-in-crime is footloose and free having transformed herself from psycho sexual vulture into soccer mom.

Homolka has always put forward a dizzying array of faces, depending on the situation, from the flat-eyed affect adopted in court when she testified against her ex-husband, to the pseudo-victim — beaten spouse — she professed to be during negotiations for her plea agreement, to bar-cruiser while awaiting her own trial to lesbian seducer in jail.

Perhaps the Seventh-day Adventists see Homolka as a harmless creature — a compassionate view not extended to, say, gays — circa 2015 and have adopted the Christian way forward. I suspect they haven’t seen the other personas.

That has long been Homolka’s modus operandi, from before she ever met Bernardo, leading with her sex core.

Bernardo & Homolka, the Ken & Barbie Killers: He’s in prison overalls but she can be dressed up in mommy outfits.

 

[Hazel]

Christie Blatchford: We should remember the horror of Karla Homolka’s past
Christie Blatchford | June 2, 2017 6:44 PM ET

As it turns out, if I was right about nothing else, I was right that people would need reminding.

While the school brass apparently knew about and were accepting of her criminal past, some of the parents didn’t and weren’t.

And while at first the school defended Homolka’s involvement, and actually told a couple of the complaining parents they weren’t welcome back next year, the academy has had a change of heart since, and now pledges that no one with a criminal history will be allowed to volunteer on school grounds.

What was interesting in the public discussion that followed was just how shallow is the collective memory.

The kids are innocents, goes this thinking, and yet they suffer the sting of her crimes and occasional surfacings in the press.

That’s all true, of course. But Homolka chose to have children, after all, in the knowledge that she must be prepared to answer their questions when and if they came.

She’s always been awfully good at preparation.

She died, and despite a violent red burn on Tammy’s face that was never explained, thanks to Homolka’s swift thinking — she hid the drugs and threw the vomit-stained blankets into the wash – and a slow-witted cop who overruled his rightly suspicious younger colleague, the death was written off as accidental.

Only years later, at Homolka’s plea, did the truth of Tammy’s death emerge.

As heinous as her conduct was in the Mahaffy and French deaths – she was an eager participant and though she had opportunities to get help, didn’t lift a finger for either girl – it was her voluntary handing over of her own flesh and blood, in the family home with her parents and other sister asleep upstairs, that is her original sin, and tells the tale.

It was here that she crossed a bright line – and remember, she was not then in Bernardo’s thrall, certainly not his victim, but rather was an independent, free-spirited young woman with her own money and circle of friends.

Just a few weeks later, Homolka dressed up in her dead sister’s clothes, holding a picture of her over her face, and pretended to be her as she and Bernardo had sex. That’s how consumed with grief and regret she was; this is what needs to be remembered.

RSBM

Read full article here:
http://news.nationalpost.com/full-c...ld-remember-the-horror-of-karla-homolkas-past