No one likes it, but there's nothing the government can do to stop it. That's the message Canadians are receiving. My question is WHY? Why does a convicted killer get any special privileges at all? He's been locked away from society for a very good reason. Why can't we keep it that way?
Notorious killer Paul Bernardo may be behind bars but by the looks of things he's hardly suffering for what he has done. Along with his then wife Karla Homolka, a number of years ago Bernardo raped and murdered two young girls - one 14, the other 15. If that isn't bad enough, he was also reportedly convicted of 32 other sex-related crimes dating back to 1987. In 1995 he was declared a dangerous offender (you think?) and sentenced to life in prison. Apparently that still allows you the right to carry on relationships with people in the outside world. We are now hearing that Bernardo is making wedding plans with a young woman who has been communicating with him via letters and in person visits since last fall. This isn't the first time things like this have happened. There are women out there who seem to fall prey to this trap for whatever reason... maybe it's because we enable it.
"These are women from all across America. Women who have given up their families, careers and even their freedom to be with the men they love who all happen to be convicts," says Stephen Williams, an author who has written a number of books on Bernardo. He also notes that in the years before he was executed in the US in 1989, serial killer Ted Bundy married and even fathered a child. Wow.
Williams says he's not shocked there are women with a love interest in Bernardo. But WHY? I'm thinking there must be something seriously wrong with this woman. "I was aware that there were women visiting (Bernardo) in prison early on when he was first incarcerated," Williams says. "This sort of thing happens, but from what I'm reading about this, she (the current love interest) appears to be a bit fragile and obviously her parents are very concerned." I would say so. Can you imagine if this was YOUR daughter? "What I'm saying is, in all relationships it takes two to tango. (Bernardo) hasn't got much room in that 8×10 cell to do any tangoing and I think that you have to ascribe a lot of the motivation in this to the young woman and of course were I her parent, I'd be very concerned as well."
Paul Bernardo took away the rights for at least two young girls to ever experience any kind of a real relationship - and now we cater to HIS so called rights? Please...
