She spent her time in prison learning to speak fluent french and her new murderer love interest will be deported back to France once his prison term is up, by law.
To me, it sounds like she’ll be moving to France, but no one is talking about this, which makes me think it’s a very likely possibility.
I’d love to find a transcript (in english) of her interview on French tv last night, but I haven’t had any luck yet. (Still looking).
France might have something contrary to say about a foreigner with a manslaughter conviction wanting to become a permanent resident. “Violent criminal record” is one of those things that tend to raise red flags for immigration officers.
She’s about to change her name legally, I suspect she’ll radically change her physical appearance in the next couple of days, lay low for some time, entering France as a tourist.
Sheesh, (and I’m not even a criminal), I didn’t think she was going to legally immigrate, just end up there.
(I did find an english translation of the interview but don’t know how to link.)
Sorry, but phrases like “blah blah blah”, “shit happens” and “that’s the way the cookie crumbled” sound cavalier to me. I’m happy to agree to disagree.
Yeah, but…can she even get a passport with her record? If she can get a passport, wouldn’t French officials red flag her and not allow her in?
Maybe I’m wrong, but I get the feeling that Homolka is not a psychopath at all. She obviously has psychological problems, but what I remember hearing is that she probably has a dependent personality. And that makes sense to me. Her role in the crimes was greater than she admitted (although I don’t know what it was exactly), but I believe that she did it not because she’s a sexual predator, but rather because she was ready to do anything to please Bernardo. That’s similar to what RickJay said earlier, except that I don’t think she’s a psychopath. (If I’m wrong and she’s been diagnosed as one, I’d be interested to hear it, so post a link.)
In other words, if she doesn’t get involved with other criminal men, she shouldn’t get into more trouble. The problem, of course, is that she seems to be attracted to violent criminals. First Bernardo, and now Gerbet, although she claims she’s not seeing him anymore.
What I think we should do: she’s served her sentence, and she also has been imposed conditions. I say we should leave her alone.
No nation would grant her a visa. If she’s going to sneak into another country she’ll have a hard time given her public profile. Any reporter would love to break that story.
This is the CBC Radio-Canada interview transcript, translated.
I see no real remorse for her acknowledged crimes, which frankly merited far more than a 12-year sentence.
Rather than saying she’s SORRY SORRY OH GOD I AM SO SORRY, she blathers on about the “interior prison” and remarks only that what she did was “terrible.” (No shit, honeybun!) Very cool and distanced from anything resembling remorse. She cries often, for instance:
And to add insult to injury, she goes on about what an exemplary detainee she was, earning a degree and learning French thanks to the French’s and Mahaffy’s tax contributions. Oh, and she doesn’t deny an ongoing relationship with Gerbet, even getting haughty at being asked about it.
A more convincing play at remorse would take the form of an apology to the French and Mahaffy families, who (I don’t know how) manage to get up every day knowing their children died in horror and that this bitch is drinking an iced cap at Tim Horton’s. You won’t see it, though.
She’s a bitch and I hope she dies horribly.
Well said 
So, watching a bit of the news last night, Paul Bernardo’s lawyer comes on and tells us that Bernardo is saying, once again, that Karla was the one who did the killing, and that he’s bad, but she’s worse. Well.
I can’t believe this monster is getting out of prison after 12 years! And her stay in prison has been a joke!
Source: Court TV’s Crime Library
Nice. This monster gets to hang out with other monsters (other sexual predators who kidnap, rape, and torture girls), while modeling dresses!? How the hell does this happen?
Source: Court TV’s Crime Library
So this piece of shit doesn’t participate in rehabilitation programs, gets to party with other sexual predators, has sexual relations, and gets a free education!?
Now that’s what I call “hard time”. :dubious:
Justice was not fucking served in this case!!! :mad: :mad:
She deserves to live in fear for the rest of her miserable life. The innocent girls she helped kill will never have the chance to get married, have a career, have kids. And this bitch will.
There are no adequate words to describe how wrong this is.
Ah? I thought I had heard that she wasn’t seeing him anymore. I didn’t watch the interview, so I can’t really say. In any case, as has been mentioned before, he’ll be deported as soon as his sentence is over (in a few years, I think), so I don’t think that will amount to much anyway.
Moving thread from IMHO to Great Debates.
Her lawyer said she had broken ties to Gerbet, says the Globe and Mail:
Karla herself made no such denial in the transcript:
Well, there’s one thing she’s not lying about. She’s not here to talk.
Thanks for the clarification, Northern Piper. It’d be interesting to know whether the Crown then followed up with a dangerous offender application at time of sentencing for the breach of the 810 recognizance. Do you happen to recall?
As to what Homolka said in her interview, I found it interesting that if she’s trying to portray herself as remorseful, rather than saying the first thing she wanted to do was at least visit the gravesite of her sister, she said she wanted an iced cappuccino from Tim Horton’s. I also continue to be puzzled by her mother’s ongoing support for her. I would find it strange enough considering her involvement in the rapes and murders of strangers to the Homolka family, but when she was involved in the apparent rape and death of her sister?
And I don’t know if it’s just the photos that the media always selects of Homolka, but in the pictures that are constantly used, she has dead eyes. Absolutely flat.
Even if she succeeds, banning != prevention. IIRC, even during the original trial the net was making a mockery of the Canadian government’s news embargo, and information hasn’t gotten any easier to control since then.
I am currently reading Invisible Darkness… I picked it up months ago for a dime at a book sale. From what I’ve read/heard, I have to agree with those that claim she is a sociopath, a master manipulator and has some sort of attachment disorder.
Sadly, there are a lot of folks with this pathology around us. Some use their “powers” for good, some for evil. Charisma works in mysterious ans often cruel ways.
I hope tp heaven she is watched closely. I do not believe she could ever change, and her refusal to seek/take therapy is very, very frightening.
Doesn’t look as if the dangerous offender sentence is available for breach of a peace bond under s. 810 and the related provisions.
Section 811 is the offence section. It reads:
So it’s a maximum two year sentence.
The Crown can only apply for a dangerous offender sentence when the accused has been convicted of a “serious personal injury offence”, which is defined as follows:
Since the sentence for breach has a maximum of two years, and s. 811 is not listed as one of the specific offences, it doesn’t look like a dangerous offender sentence would be available for breach of a recognizance.
Getting back to the OP, I see I need to clarify my comment about Qadgop’s use of the term “primary instigator” to describe Homoloka. I’d forgotten that Bernardo had said she was the one who pushed for murder, instead of his stated preference of “catch, torture/abuse, and release,” which he has recently repeated through his lawyer. However, that sounds to me like to very bad people blaming each other; I’m not aware of any evidence that she is considered the “primary instigator”, other than their mutual finger-pointing. If I’m wrong on that, I’d be interested in hearing it.