Posted on 05/30/2005 10:49:21 AM PDT by GMMAC
That is hardly the same thing. The minor was drinking alcohol with them & Karla was putting drugs in her drinks. My question remains valid and not on par with your concentration camp comparison. Why was this minor allowed to get drunk & spend the night with an adult couple? My parents would never have allowed that to happen.
I just read a bit about this case & several of their victims were kidnapped, but they had a few who came by willingly several times. The girls did not know what happened to them as Karla would befriend them & offer alcohol laced with Halcion. Then, the girl was assaulted after she passed out. She also used some animal tranquilizer on a rag and placed it over their mouth to keep them under. The girls awoke the next day feeling really bad & sore, but assumed it was a hangover. The one who may be able to prosecute her now (Jane ) was at their place twice and never knew she was raped. I feel really bad for her, but at least she lived and doesn't remember anything. The other girls were very aware and were killed. Karla & Paul are pure evil.
True, we have all been young & irresponsible. I hope this Jane is able to prosecute Karla.
That's not obvious to me. The story of Homolka's last week or two living with Bernardo sound like enough to make most people forget about lots of things:
The FBI was called in to profile the murderers. This time the oracle was wrong, concluding that the killers were male blue-collar workers. Bernardo's abuse of Homolka again escalated. She was strangled, knives were thrown at her, she was hit with firewood, shoes and a flashlight, kicked, punched and raped, her hair was pulled out, she was pushed downstairs, her foot was punctured on a rusty nail. Galligan cautiously observes, "If her evidence is truthful, there can be no doubt that Paul Bernardo's treatment of her through the last half of 1992 is nothing short of a horror story. It is somewhat of a surprise that she is still alive and sane" (p. 41). On 5 January 1993, co-workers concerned about her absence from work called her parents, who took her to hospital. Galligan quotes from the report of the ER physician. Homolka had black-ringed "raccoon" eyes and a hemorrhage in the left eye from blows to the back of the head driving the brain forward into the skull, a contusion to the forehead, bruises down the side of her neck and along her arms, bruises and swelling to 75% of her legs from mid-thigh down, and a puncture wound from a screwdriver on her right thigh above the knee. She could not walk. She had been handcuffed, bound with the electrical cord used to strangle Mahaffy and French and left in the root cellar where the bodies had been stored. "Dr. Arndt reports at p. 7 that the emergency room physician at the hospital said, 'this was the worst case of wife assault that he had seen' " (p. 41). Bernardo was charged with assault and released on bail. On 9 January Homolka moved in with her aunt and uncle, consulted a legal aid lawyer and began divorce proceedings.
Some of you people might want to read this before forming any hard opinions of Homolka. There's some doubt, and it sounds like the same sort of thing you read about in the Patty Hearst case in which somebody with a pretty near zero personality to begin with was subjected to brainwashing techniques.
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