I just heard the news this morning on the Roy Green Show here in Hamilton and quite frankly, I'm both confused and upset. It seems convicted sex-motivated killer, Karla Homolka has had a baby and is keeping it. Obviously, up until now, the fact that she was even pregnant has been kept extremely hushed up.
In case you haven't heard of this notorious Canadian killer, please go here: http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/bernardo/
OR HERE: http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/notorious/bernardo/homolka_jump_page.html
Excuse me if I sound cold, but this is a travesty in my eyes. Most people know about the vicious killings that Homolka committed along with her twisted and dangerous husband, Paul Bernardo. Together, they ravished and killed two teenage girls, as well as Homolka's own sister.
It is beyond my depth of understanding to even consider the idea of letting this woman keep her baby. I think it will turn out to be devastating for the child, when she learns what their mother has done. And I can only begin to imagine how the child will be treated by her peers.
If this situation had occurred in Ontario, the baby would have been taken by the Children's Aid from Homolka the minute she was born. I have to wonder why this didn't happen in Quebec.
It has been hypothesized that letting Homolka become a mother will teach her about real love and change her as a person. Sorry, I don't agree. It is not worth the risk to the child.
As well, I wonder what the victim's families are thinking about this. Isn't it enough that she got early parole and has been allowed to carry on with her life? This is just another in a long line of slaps in the face and further proof that the Canadian justice system is not all it's cracked up to be.
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1. She has already shown that she is not a well adjusted person and mentally is maladjusted, hence the baby is at risk or will be as it grows older.
2. Its a scientific fact that most attributes are past on to progeny via the mentors: carers, parents etc
3. Even if this child becomes cared for by her, it will eventually pay for the crimes that the mother has commited either by media coverage or peers and in many cases adults that see the child of a killer as a target to vent upon.
It is not our place to judge this woman...that was done by the courts & by God...aloow her to live her life free from prying & hinderance.
I'm sure studies have been done about prisoners. How many repeat or return to a life of crime after they are released? A rapist in the Chicago area was released from prison. He was completely rehabilitated according to the courts. Hours after his release, he was picked up for raping a woman that day. Can we expect this woman to change? The killing of her sister got to me. If she can bring her sister into that kind of situation what will stop her from trying something like this on her own child?
This woman was/is a sick individual who still needs to be behind bars, certainly without a child.
You do NOT cure the kind of "sickness" that led her to do the terrible things that she did. I, too, wonder why she is even out of prison. I know personally a man who got six years in prison for selling stolen auto parts!! He didn't get an early release.
You have to wonder, do her parents even want her out, after the sick thing she did to her own sister??
There are consequences for our actions, as much as we try to get around them. Why should children be put at this kind of risk? So that they can be eventually taken away and put into foster care or some other human services sytem?
Some acts cannot be forgiven by paying a debt to society.
Jenna: Sounds like you think along very much the same lines as I do, although I can't bring myself to agree with the death penalty. One of the major problems with the legal system both in Canada and the U.S. is that the minute a criminal goes to jail, one-third of their sentence is removed. Why, I have no idea, but it's ridiculous.
Also, when I did my study of sex offenders, the rate if recidivism was indeed around 85-90 per cent. The reasoning is that such offenses are caused by sick people and if they don't "get well," of course they will commit the same crime again.
As to your last comment, I have never understood how a person who robs a bank can get 10 years, yet a child abuser might get 3-5. It really is sickening.
I went to a vocational highschool and majored in law enforcement. One of my teachers was a cop and a secret service agent. He would always tell us the statistics and stories of situations they've dealt with. Some times things were horrible. It did really make my opinion on some things change.
As far as sex offenders I don't think they can be "fixed". I feel there is something hard wired in their brain that might not ever be right. I do think there are many flaws with the system and how they rate sex offenders. I don't think it's right that a girl who lies about their age and is a bar with her mom ends up sleeping with a guy.Then next thing you know he's arrested and thrown in jail for a sexual based crime. My friends brother had that happen to him even though it was consensual and the mom allowed her 15 or 16 year old daughter to be in a bar. I would think that someone in a bar was of a certain age to if they said so. There's other reasons it's flawed to but thats one example.
She should not be allowed to have this child or any child in her home.
>:-(
The only way to know if this person is truly rehabilitated and truly repentent is to look into her mind, heart and soul. Neither you or I have that ability.
It's great that she paid her debt to society (according to some judge), but she'll never be able to repay her victims and shouldn't have the opportunity to create more victims.