Psychopathic Murderers Bernardo/Homolka
"I would never allow mass murderers to be removed from maximum to medium security. [Serial rapist, killer Paul Bernardo should] rot [in maximum security] until he leaves in a coffin [instead of being transferred to a medium-security prison].""I think it is outrageous that Justin Trudeau is allowing this monster to have the privilege of going to medium security instead of staying in a maximum security where he should rot until he leaves in a coffin."Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre
Kristen French and LeslieMahaffy |
Bernardo,
known as the Scarborough Rapist and the Schoolgirl Killer, is a vicious
psychopath who for years preyed on women, managing to sexually assault
dozens of women, leaving the community in a state of dread and
foreboding until he was finally unmasked. A young married man, his wife
Karla Homolka, aided and abetted her husband's sexual rampages. Under
the purview of Canada's infamously progressively 'woke' Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau all the arms of government have been persuaded to follow
the agenda he promotes.
When
news was released last week that the sadistic rapist-murderer of two
schoolgirls -- who had been kidnapped and tortured by Bernardo and his
wife, 15-year-old Kristen French and 14-year-old Leslie Mahaffy -- had
been transferred from the maximum-security institution where he has been
imprisoned for the past 22 years, to a medium-security prison, the
public erupted in confusion and fury. Correctional Service Canada has
refused to issue an explanation for the decision.
It
has, instead, cited the need to defend this mass rapist-murderer's
right to privacy. Nationally, experts in the justice system, critics and
politicians representing the political spectrum expressed their
outrage, all the more so that the department refuses to justify its
decision to make that transfer, citing privacy legislation. Former
governing officials of Correctional Service Canada have cited the need
to be more transparent, that the move should be explained to Canadians.
Paul Bernardo arrested |
Bernardo's
conviction of the kidnapping, sexual assault and murder of the
schoolgirls in the 1990s continues to resonate with the public. He had
been convicted as well of manslaughter causing the death of Tammy
Homolka, his wife's 15-year-old sister, who died after being drugged and
sexually assaulted. In a case that shocked the nation, Tammy's older
sister, Karla Homolka was actively involved in her husband's assault on
her younger sister.
Karla
Homolka's role in her husband's sexual depravity was well known. Police
investigators had made a pact with her for a lighter sentence in return
for her giving evidence and information that led them to a cache of
videos hidden behind a light fixture in a bathroom of their house, that
helped to convict her husband. Her 12-year sentence as an accomplice to
her husband's horrible crimes was completed in 2005. She married,
changed her name and place of residence and is now raising children of
her own.
Controversy
has arisen over Paul Bernardo's transfer from a segregation section of a
maximum-security prison in Ontario to an 'open campus' type of
medium-security prison in Quebec, prompting questions of whether
increased security is seen as part of the punishment, or to ensure that
other inmates can be restrained from assaulting or killing an inmate so
generally loathed even by the prison population, much less deter the
inmate himself from ever escaping the confines of the prison shielding
the population from his presence.
Ontario
Premier Doug Ford speaking in the Ontario legislature, said Bernardo in
his opinion, should be on 23-hour solitary confinement, with the final
hour that makes up the day directly within the general population, since
"that's what should happen to this SOB".
Karla Homolka, in custody |
Classification
to determine the seriousness of a crime -- mental disorder, potential
for violence and the "dangerous offender" designation, determines where
criminals wind up in the prison system. Issues such as risk of escape
and public safety are taken into account when determining whether the
placement is in tight security or medium security. Bernardo is diagnosed
as a severe sexual sadist with high psychopathy scores. In Millhaven
penitentiary where he was held since 2013 he attended sex offender
treatment programming.
His
life sentence has no specified end to his incarceration without parole;
he will never have a legal right to leave prison, yet he has pleaded
his case for parole twice to the Parole Board of Canada, pledging if
ever released he would remain near his elderly parents and when they
die, he will plan to leave Ontario.
Homolka & another prisoner at Joliette |
His
wife began her sentence for manslaughter -- two counts for the deaths
in 1991 and 1992 of Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French, with another two
years added for her sister's death; at Kingston's maximum security
Prison for Women.
She
was subsequently moved to Joliette Institution for Women in 1997, a
multi-level facility that includes minimum and medium security. In 2000
when photographs emerged of Homolka and two other violent offenders
dressed in evening wear and posing before a birthday cake, public
controversy of full-on outrage emerged.
Labels: Correctional Service of Canada, Maximum Security to Medium Security Prisons, Paul Bernardo
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