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Post by andie on Jan 26, 2008 11:32:29 GMT -5
Um, she's remained low key, so there isn't anyway to tell where she is. happyhaddock, When was the last time you telephoned for an EMS to come quickly and a pizza truck arived quicker? Andie, The reason why I ask is that, as a United States citizen, I must find out in which state she chooses to infest herself , and notify the authorities so that they can extradite her.
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Post by janet on Jan 26, 2008 11:51:59 GMT -5
No citizen of a country that has been convicted of a felony is permitted to enter the United States, even for a weekend, without obtaining a waiver or pardon. This surely isn't going to occur in a case like that of Karla Homolka. It was on the news several weeks ago that she, her husband (lover, whatever), and son had left Canada for an undisclosed Carribean Island to seek permanent residency. Whatever country it is in the Carribean has no laws that prevent her residing there.
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Post by andie on Jan 26, 2008 12:57:23 GMT -5
Oh yeah, I read somehwere that she was in the Carribean but was not sure she was taking up permenant residency. Thanks for the info. No citizen of a country that has been convicted of a felony is permitted to enter the United States, even for a weekend, without obtaining a waiver or pardon. This surely isn't going to occur in a case like that of Karla Homolka. It was on the news several weeks ago that she, her husband (lover, whatever), and son had left Canada for an undisclosed Carribean Island to seek permanent residency. Whatever country it is in the Carribean has no laws that prevent her residing there.
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Post by poseidon on Jan 26, 2008 17:25:08 GMT -5
If she has decided to stay in the Virgin Islands, then she's bound by British law.
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Post by janet on Jan 26, 2008 18:25:21 GMT -5
Evidently, she's reported to be seeking permanent residency in the Antilles. That was reported by Fox News.
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Post by poseidon on Jan 26, 2008 19:25:15 GMT -5
Where in the Antilles?
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Post by andie on Jan 26, 2008 20:42:40 GMT -5
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Post by happyhaddock on Jan 27, 2008 14:28:32 GMT -5
I don't think the conditions expire. Even though she is free now and paid for her crime she isn't allowed to talk to minors or have any interaction with them excluding her son. But then again not 100% sure. Quote: On November 30, 2005, Quebec Superior Court judge James Brunton lifted all restrictions imposed on Homolka, saying there was not enough evidence to justify them. On December 6, 2005, the Quebec Court of Appeal upheld Brunton's decision. The Quebec Justice Department decided not to take the case to the Supreme Court.
On February 9, 2007, Sun Media reported that Homolka had given birth to a baby boy with new husband, Thierry Bordelais. Quebec Children's Aid said that despite Homolka's past, the new mother will not automatically be scrutinized.
On December 14, 2007, CityNews reported that Homolka left Canada for the Antilles in the West Indies so her now one-year-old could lead a 'more normal life.'
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Post by poseidon on Jan 27, 2008 19:42:33 GMT -5
'More normal life.' Yeah. sure!!
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Post by happyhaddock on Jan 29, 2008 1:26:10 GMT -5
'More normal life.' Yeah. sure!! Makes "Mommie Dearest" look good by comparison!
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Post by poseidon on Jan 29, 2008 22:10:59 GMT -5
If she's settlin in the Dutch West Indies, she's on a bloomin' vacation. What's with the authorities, anyway??
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Post by poseidon on Jan 29, 2008 22:30:22 GMT -5
A few years ago, upon leaving Starbucks, I chanced to overhear a conversation between several officers of the law which dealt with a two-pronged attack, using both local and central law agencies. Some weeks later, during one of Santa Rosa's street fairs, I believe she made herself visible(this was shortly after she had changed her name!)!
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Post by sdl on Feb 10, 2008 17:58:01 GMT -5
According to an article entitled "The Evil Within:The Twisted Minds of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka" by Anna M. Griffy in Justice Junction, Karla mentioned that she was moving to the States after her release from prison in 2005. And that was three years ago! She can't. She is automatically banned from most countries. The US even bans those who smoked dope 20 years ago - they won't let murderers in. And they dare call the US the land of Freedom
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Post by poseidon on Feb 20, 2008 17:15:07 GMT -5
What irony!
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Post by pumpkinpie on Apr 14, 2008 16:27:34 GMT -5
News 04/14/2008 14:04:45 EST Death Penalty for Child Rape Is Fought By CAIN BURDEAU Associated Press Writer
When the news broke last month that a janitor had been arrested and accused of raping boys in the bathroom at an elementary school, the issue of justice and retribution became the talk around dinner tables and baseball fields.
Castrate him, some said. No, let the other inmates deal with him. No, execute him.
Castration and jailhouse vigilantism are out of the question, but putting a child rapist to death is within the bounds of Louisiana law.
For how much longer?
That's a question the U.S. Supreme Court takes up Wednesday when it hears arguments on whether a state can impose the death penalty for the rape of a child, or whether that would amount to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Constitution.
Supporters of Louisiana's law argue that child rape is so evil and so utterly traumatizing that justice cries out for death. But others warn that the law will further traumatize youngsters and make rapists more likely to kill their victims.
In 1977, the Supreme Court said states cannot execute anyone for the rape of an adult. But the high court did not address the rape of a child.
The last time someone in the U.S. was executed for something other than murder was in 1964, when a man went to the electric chair in Alabama for robbery. That same year, a man in Missouri went to the gas chamber in what was the last time someone in this country was put to death for rape.
Louisiana is the only state with someone on death row for rape of an adult or child. In fact, it has two people awaiting execution for child rape. At least five other states - Georgia, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas - have similar laws.
"These are the only two men on any death row in any Western democracy for this offense," said Billy Sothern, a lawyer with the Capital Appeals Project, a nonprofit law firm that represents the Louisiana man at the center of the Supreme Court case, Patrick Kennedy.
Kennedy, a 43-year-old man with an IQ of 70, was convicted and sentenced to death for raping his 8-year-old stepdaughter in 1998 in Harvey, a New Orleans suburb.
The Louisiana law - which applies to anyone found guilty of aggravated rape of a child 12 or younger - breezed through the state Legislature in 1995; members got sidetracked only over whether to castrate child rapists.
"That's one of my proudest pieces of legislation," said former state Rep. Pete Schneider, a Slidell brick manufacturer and Republican.
The other man on death row in Louisiana for child rape is Richard Davis, convicted of repeatedly attacking a 5-year-old girl he looked after with his girlfriend in 2004 and 2005. The man who prosecuted him, Brady O'Callaghan, said child rape deserves the death penalty.
"It is so evil. There is no justification for it," he said. "This isn't a heat-of-passion killing. It's not about money."
Opponents, including the National Association of Social Workers and the National Alliance to End Sexual Violence, warn that the prospect of the death penalty could give child rapists a powerful incentive to kill their victims. They might figure they have nothing to lose by killing the lone witness.
Also, child advocates warn that children, in many cases, are raped by people they know, and executing a relative could traumatize a youngster. Also, the law might make it harder to prosecute such cases by making children afraid to speak up for fear of what might happen to a relative, said Dr. Scott Benton, a pediatric forensic physician.
The debate has flared anew in Slidell, where 41-year-old janitor Dino Jay Schwertz was accused last month of child rape. Police say he confessed to the crimes.
His voice rising over the clang of baseball bats and clapping from the crowd at an after-school game, mortgage-company loan officer Cedric Bayone said he might support the death penalty in a child rape case.
"We've got to send a message to all these sex offenders: We're not playing when it comes to our children," he said.
But Penny Robertson, a mother of three, opposes the death penalty for a child rapist: "He's going to get it either way it goes. God's going to get him in the end. Death is the easy out for him, and I don't think he deserves an easy out."
(My opinion- this law will make offenders more likely to kill there victims, and I think we'd rather have them alive, wouldn't we? I would certainly think so!)
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