F**k Karla Homolka

This past Thursday the Toronto Sun ran a front page showing murderess Karla Homolka taking her newborn baby to a clinic.

About 6 weeks ago I had occasion to drive past Lake Gibson, just outside St Catharines, Ontario. This is where the dismembered body of 17 year old Lesley Mahaffey was discovered, her remains encased in blocks of cement.
When I was a teenager growing up in St Catharines I regularly walked past the church parking lot where 15 year old Kristen French was abducted. If you're not from this part of Canada you probably don't recognize these landmarks. They played key roles in one of the most brutal sex slaying crimes in Canadian history, the Paul Bernardo/Karla Homolka case. The married couple kidnapped, raped, terrorized, tortured and murdered 4 teenaged girls; Kristen French, Lesley Mahaffey, Karla's own sister Tammy, and a "Jane Doe". In a complete and utter travesty of justice Homolka received a mere 12 year prison sentence, thanks to a "deal" she made with our laughable judicial system. The deal, scribed under the pretense that there had been only 3 victims, allowed for leniency in exchange for her testimony against Paul Bernardo. The crown claimed it had to make the deal because there wasn't enough physical evidence to convict.

Guess what - there was. Shortly after Bernardo's arrest video tapes of the crimes were removed from the Bernardo/Homolka residence by Bernardo's lawyer, someone whose karma points are definitely in the deficit column. Was the evidence disclosed as required by Canadian law? No. Was this lowlife charged, tried and convicted for HIS crimes? No. Dis-barred maybe? No. So a deal predicated on undisclosed evidence was allowed to stand.

It gets better. Once the deal was signed it was discovered that there had been a 4th victim, the aforementioned "Jane Doe". The "Deal with the devil' as it came to be known, stipulated that should any more than the currently known number of victims be discovered the deal would be null and void and sentencing would be contingent on the severity of the crimes. When news of a 4th victim came to light our farcical judiciary shrugged its shoulders and sighed a big "oh well". The deal stood.

Why rehash this now? Karla Homolka, who kidnapped, raped, terrorized, tortured and murdered 4 teenaged girls, now has a child of her own. Obviously no one can stop another person from having a child, this violates basic individual rights and puts us back there with China in the civilization department. HOWEVER had our system done the job that we are paying them to do, had our governments listened to the outraged cries of it's citizens, had they displayed even a modicum of compassion for the victims' families, a compassion that Karla Homolka NEVER EVER displayed, she would be in prison for the rest of her hideous, despicable and worthless life – and a baby would surely be out of the question.

I don't like the idea of a murderous pig reproducing. I don't like the idea of someone who took the lives of 4 innocent children having the opportunity to mother one of her own. There are those who say "she's served her time, she's paid her debt to society, now just let her live her life". The flaw in that argument is that no, she did not serve her time, she did not pay her debt – she made a dishonourable "deal" that prosecutors then honoured.

We've been had – again.