Hum Posted June 2, 2005 Share Posted June 2, 2005 JOLIETTE, Quebec (Reuters) -- A Quebec court is being asked Thursday to keep Canada's most notorious female criminal under close watch after she completes her sentence for the sex killings of two schoolgirls. The request is an unprecedented one for a convict who has served a full prison term, rather than leaving jail early on parole. But critics say it is driven more by politics than a pressing need to protect the public from 35-year-old Karla Homolka. :huh: Homolka and her then-husband Paul Bernardo kidnapped, sexually assaulted, tortured, and killed two teenaged girls in the early 1990s in southern Ontario. Homolka will be released from a Quebec prison in July after 12 years behind bars, a plea-bargain sentence that came after she admitted two counts of manslaughter in return for testifying against Bernardo. Citing concerns that Homolka may re-offend, the Ontario government wants a Quebec court to impose strict restrictions on her movements after she leaves prison. "No matter where she goes, our justice system will be watching her," Michael Bryant, Ontario's attorney general, said. "She has been convicted of the most horrific, ghoulish crimes imaginable to humankind." more: http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/06/02/sex.slay...reut/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lav-chan Posted June 2, 2005 Share Posted June 2, 2005 I am really of the belief that if a person is too dangerous to be let back out into society, they shouldn't be. When a person has served their time, they should have more or less repaid their debt to society. To hound someone for the rest of their life after they've served a prison term is stupid. Either keep them in prison or let them finish their parole or whatever and leave them alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boffa Jones Veteran Posted June 2, 2005 Veteran Share Posted June 2, 2005 The worst part is one of the girls was her little sister. She is sick, but she got a lighter sentance because she put on the manipulated wife/girlfriend mask, and once she was in prison the inmates with her found out she is a cold soulless person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Derf Veteran Posted June 2, 2005 Veteran Share Posted June 2, 2005 They thought she might have been a victim and they made what is now considered a "deal with devil" in order to get her testimony against her former husband. If they had found their video tapes, which clearly showed her to be a willing participant and perhaps even the instigator (instead of a victim), they never would have offered her that deal. Some say she is actually more dangerous than her ex-husband who is doing a life sentance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rumbleph1$h Posted June 3, 2005 Share Posted June 3, 2005 Does anyone else think 12 years is a little lax for a double homicide? :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boffa Jones Veteran Posted June 3, 2005 Veteran Share Posted June 3, 2005 She didn't kill anyone, anshe struck a deal for it, her husband is in jail for ever. Period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rumbleph1$h Posted June 3, 2005 Share Posted June 3, 2005 She didn't kill anyone, anshe struck a deal for it, her husband is in jail for ever. Period. 586007912[/snapback] Hmm, I guess that's a little different. I'm not familiar with the case..... just was going off this "Homolka and her then-husband Paul Bernardo kidnapped, sexually assaulted, tortured, and killed two teenaged girls" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boffa Jones Veteran Posted June 3, 2005 Veteran Share Posted June 3, 2005 Hmm, I guess that's a little different. I'm not familiar with the case..... just was going off this "Homolka and her then-husband Paul Bernardo kidnapped, sexually assaulted, tortured, and killed two teenaged girls" 586007935[/snapback] makes sense. BTW sorry, I just read that, and i sound pretty harsh, just multitasking was on a call and posting at the same time ;). I didnt mean nothin by it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Derf Veteran Posted June 3, 2005 Veteran Share Posted June 3, 2005 Does anyone else think 12 years is a little lax for a double homicide? :huh: 586007900[/snapback] It was a screw up. The crown made the assumption that her husband was the mastermind and sociopath and that she was not always a willing participant but rather bullied into some of the actions. I don't believe they thought that a young, attractive, 23 year old woman could be a sociopath herself. Eventually they found the tapes they made together and the crown realized that they made a deal with the devil (a shorter 12 year sentance in exchange for her testifying against her husband). I personally think her husband was a violent creep that did horrible things but she might be the true sociopath. I mean, who offers up her own sister for raping? :x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Bourricot Posted June 4, 2005 Share Posted June 4, 2005 Maybe she was jealous that her little sister was the little favorite in the family... Anyway I shouldn't joke about that, it's truely horrible. In fact I recon she'd be much better off in a lunatic asylum with the other psychos, however I doubt she'll try something like that again now she's on constant supervision. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Derf Veteran Posted June 5, 2005 Veteran Share Posted June 5, 2005 She bargained for a 12 year term when she agreed to testify against her husband (which the cops thought was the real psycho). Usually in Canada that means that you server 8 years in prison (or even less if you were incarserated before the trial) and that you get 4 years of probation. What was unusual here is that she served the entire 12 year sentance and now, because she is considered a danger to the public, she will be given parole-like conditions until such time that she is no longer deemed a danger to the public. Serving the complete sentance is rare in Canada. We don't generally like to unlock them and then have them reintegrate with society on their own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iKap Posted June 29, 2005 Share Posted June 29, 2005 yea... i dont get the deal wit that, why is she being let out in the first place. Isnt killing a person enough? but thats 2 ppl and they wer both just kids. **** like this makes me mad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boffa Jones Veteran Posted June 29, 2005 Veteran Share Posted June 29, 2005 Man if you are going to dig up a thread.. At least read it before you post something that has already been posted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emo Posted June 29, 2005 Share Posted June 29, 2005 why is she getting off after she murdered TWO people!?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boffa Jones Veteran Posted June 29, 2005 Veteran Share Posted June 29, 2005 She didn't kill anyone, anshe struck a deal for it, her husband is in jail for ever. Period. 586007912[/snapback] It was a screw up. The crown made the assumption that her husband was the mastermind and sociopath and that she was not always a willing participant but rather bullied into some of the actions. I don't believe they thought that a young, attractive, 23 year old woman could be a sociopath herself.Eventually they found the tapes they made together and the crown realized that they made a deal with the devil (a shorter 12 year sentance in exchange for her testifying against her husband). I personally think her husband was a violent creep that did horrible things but she might be the true sociopath. I mean, who offers up her own sister for raping? :x 586009638[/snapback] She drugged the girls and did not kill them. Read the above and read up on the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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