"account banned or suspended"?
My, my, it certainly appears as if
tahotdog is no longer with us.
Wretched trolls ~ ever so tiresome.
Posted on 07/05/2005 2:56:08 AM PDT by Clive
ST. CATHARINES, Ont. (CP) - Rage, sorrow and grudging acceptance were expressed by residents in the lakeside hometown of Canada's most notorious female killer as Karla Homolka was freed from a Quebec prison Monday and slipped back into public life.
In St. Catharines, Ont., where all of Homolka's shocking crimes were committed, a handful of people at a laundromat stood in stunned silence as a television reported news of her release.
"Dear God, hell," Ann Pettay, 65, said as she folded blankets with her husband, Karl.
"I think it's a disgrace. I think she should have never got out and I fear for my grandchildren and all children."
No one answered the door at the Homolka family household, but her sister Lori could be seen sitting on a lawn chair in the backyard near a swimming pool, her head down.
Neighbours watched from windows and driveways to see a growing hive of media activity. One was highly protective.
"Leave them alone," a next-door neighbour said while tending to his garden, before swearing at and threatening a pair of reporters.
Some residents of this city of 130,000 on the southern shore of Lake Ontario simply shook their heads, fuming that this day should never have come.
"Frankly, I hope that someone does get her - she's a sick puppy," said Sarah Learn, a 25-year-old bartender in the city's downtown area.
"I don't usually wish death upon people, but some people deserve it."
Said retiree Mollie Lavelle: "I guess she served her sentence. Now she'll have to serve it outside, won't she?"
"I don't think it'll be easy for her, but that's what you do. If you live by the sword, you will die by it."
Others hoped the completion of Homolka's prison sentence would finally allow the community to move past the memories of her crimes.
"I think she served her time," said Kevin Clatney, sitting near a downtown library. "She served every day and she's done her penance."
"What else can she do?"
But Tom Rathbone, a 53-year-old manual labourer and St. Catharines native, said the emotional scars left by Homolka's involvement in the deaths of teenage schoolgirls Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy and her 15-year-old sister Tammy would last for decades.
"I think people will always remember that, but maybe a couple of generations down the road, that will change," Rathbone said.
Homolka's release comes thanks to a plea deal she struck with Ontario Crown lawyers in 1993, when she admitted to two counts of manslaughter in exchange for testifying against ex-husband Paul Bernardo, who was ultimately convicted of two counts of first-degree murder.
In sentencing Homolka, the court also took into consideration her role in the 1990 death of Tammy, who died on Christmas Eve after Homolka held a drug-soaked cloth over her face so Bernardo could rape her in her parents' bungalow.
St. Catharines, nicknamed the Garden City for its tree-lined streets that invite a mix of young families and retiring couples, has been acutely shaken.
"When the girls (French and Mahaffy) were found, it broke everybody up," Learn said.
"I was in seventh grade when it happened, and I remember my principal crying over the announcements . . . he was just bawling his eyes out and all of us cried about it."
Since then, the city has carried a collective sense of guilt for the killings, Learn added.
"Nobody wants to admit that it ever really happened because we just don't want it to happen again," she said.
"I think we all feel to some degree responsible that it happened, like somebody should've seen something or known something, and nobody did anything."
With Homolka now out of prison, fears of the 35-year-old convicted killer's return have heightened.
"Nobody wants to go out and suddenly come upon her," Lavelle said.
Do your own google searches on the subject and try to educate yourself. I can't do it for you.
The one with the giant sign on top warning "The neutrality of this article is disputed"?
Anyway, it wasn't the glazed look in the eyes that got me. It was the overall countenance...
Contemptuous, evil, conniving...
Sorry...I do not sympathize.
They can still nail her for one rape that was not disclosed in the plea agreement. My guess is that she'll be picked up for it before the year is over.
No guarantees in life but he has the Dangerous Offender designation, meaning that the onus is on him to prove he's no longer a danger before he can even apply for parole.
In Canada it's illegal for jurors to discuss a case they tried. If three jurors did grant interviews then they would have done jail time; since there is no record then I must conclude that the "interviews" were fabricated.
I don't buy the interview bit. It's illegal for jurors to discuss the cases they tried.
Not just that- during her time as a guest of Her Majesty, she got a degree in psychology. All prep for the snowjob she's trying to pull on us now, no doubt.
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