News & Politics - Sadistic Rapist/Muderer Homolka to be Released Soon

mh67511 · 06-29-2005, 09:01 PM

Look out for this lady. She wants to "disappear."

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Twelve years later, Homolka cashes in on "deal with the devil" at 16:41 on June 29, 2005, EST.

QUEBEC (CP) - Twelve years after authorities in Ontario cut the so-called "deal with the devil" that would one day allow Karla Homolka to walk free, the day is about to arrive.

Homolka, the 35-year-old killer who helped rape and kill Ontario schoolgirls Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy, could walk out of a prison north of Montreal as early as Thursday morning.

The girls' families are braced for the release, according to their lawyer Tim Danson.

"There's a pretty high level of despair," Danson said in an interview.

"The families knew this day was going to come, but now that it's actually here it's really kind of registering that the person who participated in the brutal and sadistic rape and torture and murder of their daughters is going to be free.

"But they're realistic. They understand that her sentence is over. But they don't like it."

Homolka's high-profile release, which could come any day through Monday, is the latest chapter in the saga to be botched by authorities, says Stephen Williams, author of two books on the case, including Karla: A Pact with the Devil.

"If she goes underground or continues to feel cornered and trapped, then there is danger," Williams said.

"There is nobody to blame for that, except us. The people we have put our trust and faith in, to serve and protect us. That's who to blame here, not her."

Paul Bernardo, Homolka's ex-husband who received a life sentence for the crimes, was named a dangerous offender and is unlikely to ever be released.

Williams describes Homolka as a model prisoner and says she would have posed no threat to the public had she been released in the highly supervised, step-by-step parole process like most federal inmates.

Instead, Homolka is being released with minimal restrictions at the end of her full sentence into a pressure-cooker atmosphere where media attention may drive her underground, he said.

"To turn her into an O.J. Simpson-like celebrity is antithetical to a person reintegrating into society," Williams said.

Homolka's attempt Wednesday to have a judge stop the media from reporting on her release shows how desperate she is becoming, said Williams, who interviewed Homolka for one of his books.

"It was a ludicrous and futile step and it's the behaviour of a cornered animal," he said.

Federal officials kept Homolka in prison until the end of her sentence for her part in the sexual torture and deaths of French, Mahaffy and her own sister, Tammy, saying she poses a dangerous threat to society.

Ontario, Quebec and federal officials successfully argued earlier this month for extraordinary conditions on Homolka's release because she is still dangerous.

They include having to report monthly to local police and having to avoid contact with violent offenders.

The arguments came 12 years after Ontario police and prosecutors cut Homolka a special plea bargain, accepting she was a battered woman and an unwilling accomplice in the murders.

Videotapes emerged after the plea arrangement showing Homolka took part in the crimes with gusto and also helped rape another woman known as Jane Doe. The deal stood.

"It was a bungle that gave her the freedom, the future, she so does not deserve, and now we've totally bungled the way (her release) is being executed," said Williams.

The Mahaffy and French families have also maintained the deal should have been dropped when the tapes were discovered.

"We missed the opportunity and now we're paying the price," Danson said.

"We know she's going to reoffend, the National Parole Board says she's going to reoffend. If she does, if there's another victim, it's inexcusable."

People like her, I don't believe, should not be "reintegrated" into society. The reasoned I bolded the one line was this whole "model prisoner" is a crock if you ask me; she is a GREAT actress. The fact that she was so happy and cheerful at her wedding, considering she had already KILLED one of the girls a week before is perfect evidence of that.

And also the media won't drive her underground, I heard she read a book in jail called "How to Disappear." Clearly she was planning on going underground whether the media went crazy or not.

Frankly I think that plea bargains shouldn't be allowed in cases like this, or at least they need to have much harsher consequences! Not four years per life! That's all she is getting for horribly raping and murdering these girls AND videotaping it! To me, if a person pleads guilty it may save time, but no amount of time saved is worth the danger to society!!!

ETA -- I forgot that she filed to ban the media from reporting on her! If ANYTHING she's one person I'd LIKE the media to keep tabs on! Anyways I don't see how you'd enforce it since the media has free speech or why any court would approve it.

Maggie aka Sarah · 06-29-2005, 10:55 PM

She has voiced the wish to live near to where I live!

The newspapers in Montreal have been in All Karla All The Time Mode for the last few weeks.

It is very scary just how unrepentent she appears to be! That plea bargain was just so very wrong on so many levels!

She lost her bid for a press ban though. I saw a news clip about how the judge went on and on about the consequences of her actions. She is apealing the judgement though.

Here's another article:

http://www.canada.com/national/story...0-1fa22df54cf7

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MONTREAL -- Media were given the go-ahead Wednesday to report on Karla Homolka's post-prison life after a judge dismissed a request by the convicted killer for a sweeping injunction that would have imposed severe limits on news outlets.

Homolka sought the injunction because she believes her life will be in danger from members of the public if they find out where she lives or what she looks like.

But Justice Paul-Marcel Bellavance of Quebec Superior Court ruled that granting the injunction would be a danger to freedom of the press.

He also said the public has the right to know Homolka's whereabouts because of the crimes she committed.

Homolka is expected to be released from a Montreal-area prison between Thursday and Monday after serving her entire 12-year sentence for manslaughter in the sex slayings of Ontario schoolgirls Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy.

Christian Lachance, one of Homolka's lawyers, said they might appeal the ruling.

Bellavance's decision came after Sylvie Bordelais, another lawyer for the convicted killer, said Montreal and Quebec provincial police will not treat Homolka any differently from anyone else when she is released from prison.

"They can't do any more because she becomes like anyone else,'' Bordelais told Bellavance.

Mark Bantey, a lawyer for some of the media fighting the injunction bid, said the court "shouldn't become a bodyguard for Madame Homolka.''

Earlier, other lawyers for Homolka argued the public should not be allowed to know where she lives because that would put her life in danger.

"The injunction is necessary to rule out a risk that is real and significant,'' said Walid Hijazi.

"This woman is alone and without resources.''

Meanwhile, a source with Ontario's Attorney General said Homolka is appealing the range of restrictions placed on her eventual freedom and that her lawyers have filed a notice of appeal of the Section 810 order.

The matter will be heard next Tuesday in Joliette, Que., the source said.

"As the matter is now under appeal, no further comment can be made at this time,'' said a spokesman for Ontario Attorney General Michael Bryant.

The restrictions include having to report to police once a month and giving 96 hours notice if she wants to leave Quebec.

The wide-ranging injunction sought by Homolka would have prevented the media from reporting any details about her life after she is released from prison as early as Thursday.

But Christian Leblanc, another lawyer representing several media fighting the injunction request, argued that journalists must be allowed to do their job.

"She (Homolka) is one of Canada's most notorious criminals and the public has the right to be informed of her release,'' Leblanc said outside the court.

Leblanc said Homolka faces restrictions upon her release because she is considered a threat to reoffend.

Homolka, who is about to complete her entire 12-year sentence for the sex slayings of two Ontario teenagers, was not in court Wednesday.

TokyoNiGHTS · 06-29-2005, 11:41 PM

I don't really mind plea deals to an extent. That extent stops when you kill someone. If you do that then at the least you should be spending the rest of your life in prison.

Sofa · 06-30-2005, 06:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Maggie aka Sarah

She has voiced the wish to live near to where I live!

The newspapers in Montreal have been in All Karla All The Time Mode for the last few weeks.

It is very scary just how unrepentent she appears to be! That plea bargain was just so very wrong on so many levels!

She lost her bid for a press ban though. I saw a news clip about how the judge went on and on about the consequences of her actions. She is apealing the judgement though.

Here's another article:

http://www.canada.com/national/story...0-1fa22df54cf7

Really? That's close to me too.

Paceysgal · 06-30-2005, 12:46 PM

Crime Library has the whole story on the crimes... it makes me sick just reading it.

**Mio** · 06-30-2005, 03:25 PM

Ugh. Don't even get me started on her release.. It should happen in the first place. That girl seriously has disassotiave problems from herself, reality and society. She ain't no "battered wife". I hate that she even uses that defense. She participated wholefully and knew it.

LoVe,Barbra · 06-30-2005, 04:33 PM

I agree with everyone here. I think I agree in helping convicts get out and re-interegrated into society, If they do the time for their crime, they should be allowed to move on with their lifes.

However, murder? Rape? They should rot in jail.

GhostWriter · 06-30-2005, 06:00 PM

Maybe, she should be released, but under one condition. Send her to this place I know where some friends of mine LOVE to shoot people who they believe should have been burning in hell to begin with, and give her 1 million dollors and tell her she can't leave that area for a year and if she lives, then she can go free and keep the million. Guarenteed she will not live unless I tell them to rape her and then hook her on crack so they can make her a prostitute and take her 1 million from her(considering how damn cruel I am, it could happen), but that's just me being black again.

*Ledi* · 06-30-2005, 06:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Mrs. George Eads

Ugh. Don't even get me started on her release.. It should happen in the first place. That girl seriously has disassotiave problems from herself, reality and society. She ain't no "battered wife". I hate that she even uses that defense. She participated wholefully and knew it.

I know. This is horrible.

And reading the story made me sick to my stomach. I'm completely serious. Some people are just too horrible for words.

Maggie aka Sarah · 06-30-2005, 08:37 PM

She hasn't been released as of yet. The media are currently camped out by the prision. She is attempting to get some other type of court injunction to stop the media coverage. Has a court date on Monday morning.

Mrs George: She definitely is an unrepentent sociopath. I also really really hate that she uses the battered wife defence.

Ledi: It is awful even to think about her horrible crimes.

Silver Dawn: I don't think that she will end up living near us. Think that that whatever was maybe released to the media in order to hide her intentions about where she is really planning to live. It is very very creepy though to think of her living nearby.

Oh and on a side note... it's cool to find another Montrealer on the boards.

Maggie

Sofa · 06-30-2005, 09:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Maggie aka Sarah

Silver Dawn: I don't think that she will end up living near us. Think that that whatever was maybe released to the media in order to hide her intentions about where she is really planning to live. It is very very creepy though to think of her living nearby.

Oh and on a side note... it's cool to find another Montrealer on the boards.

Maggie

It is very creepy indeed. Nice to meet you. It's nice to know i'm not alone.

Ledi -

In Fair Verona · 07-01-2005, 09:19 AM

I have to agree with all the earlier sentiments made on this thread already. To me, when a person commits an act of rape or brutal murder, they are throwing away their humanity in that decision and do not deserve to be treated like a human from that point forth.

After reading the account of what they did, I'm appalled and shocked that such people exist, that somebody would be so deluded and sick and would ruin and end a young girl's life for their own sick pleasure.

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She ain't no "battered wife".

All she is is an insult for women who are actually battered, women who are innocent and never agreed to help steal their younger sister's virginity. The woman should be disgusted with herself because according to what I've read, she wanted to do this, anything to make her husband happy. Homolka may have seen it as love, but I see it as pathetic. If she was battered, she set herself up for it. I would think she found it "exciting".

**Mio** · 07-01-2005, 09:46 AM

How many people here think she'll reoffend?

Did ya'll know she's pen-pals with a convicted serial killer?

mh67511 · 07-01-2005, 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Mrs. George Eads

She ain't no "battered wife". I hate that she even uses that defense. She participated wholefully and knew it.

The funny thing is she killed one of them BEFORE she was a "wife." And did you see her wedding video? She sure didn't look like a "battered wife" in that video.

I think there's a high probability she'll reoffend. It's always a sad day when people like this are released. Shame on the justice system for allowing this.

Semmer · 07-02-2005, 03:02 PM

Uh, I'm so sick of people who have raped or murdered being set loose. Majority of rapists rape again and dont' stop. I could probably vent for a while on that topic, but I don't have the time or the energy.


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