Homolka sues Ottawa for violating her rights
Not allowing move to halfway house 'perverse,' suit says
National Post, Wednesday, November 3, 1999, Janice Tibbetts, Southam News
Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo on their wedding day in 1991
OTTAWA - Karla Homolka, convicted in the killing of two teenage girls, claims in a lawsuit that the federal government has violated her constitutional rights by refusing to transfer her to a Montreal halfway house.
Homolka argues in a lawsuit filed in the Federal Court of Canada that it is time to begin her reintegration into society. In particular, she would like to become acquainted with Montreal, a city she plans to call home when she is eventually released.
"I do not think it is in my best interests, or anybody else's, for me to be released ... after eight years incarceration without any type of gradual release to a place where I have never been and do not know anyone," Homolka wrote in her application to be moved.
Homolka was sentenced to a 12-year term in 1993 for the killings of Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy. She is serving her sentence at Joliette Institution, a federal penitentiary for women 70 kilometres northeast of Montreal.
She will be eligible for release in July, 2001, after serving two-thirds of her sentence.
Her lawsuit -- filed under her lesser-known name, Karla-Leanne Teale -- alleges that the warden at Joliette Institution violated her constitutional rights by rejecting her application for six months of escorted temporary absences to Maison Therese Casgrain, a Montreal halfway house.
Marie-Andree Cyrenne, the institution's warden, made her decision in a "perverse or capricious manner" and relied too heavily on the negative opinion of psychologists, according to Homolka's suit.
A Corrections Canada report contends that Homolka is "out of touch with reality" because she feels she should be treated like everyone else. In fact, Corrections Canada argues she would likely encounter an explosive public backlash if she was temporarily released.
Homolka needs further sex-offender treatment and has to come to terms with public reaction to her crimes, according to psychologists' reports to Corrections Canada, which give her a low rating for reintegration into the community.
In a five-page handwritten statement, Homolka details her extensive therapy in prison, particularly at Kingston Prison for Women, which she says has prepared her for life after prison.
Homolka has earned a degree in psychology from Queen's University while serving her sentence. She has also completed programs on self-esteem, anger management, improving her inner self and surviving abuse and trauma.
"I learned to get rid of my mistrust, self-doubt, misplaced guilt, and defence mechanisms," she wrote. "I am now completely in touch with my inner feelings. My self-esteem is quite high and I am fairly easily able to deal with confrontation."
She says she fits in well at Joliette, where she was transferred two years ago as part of a plan to eventually close the Kingston Prison for Women.
Homolka and her former husband, Paul Bernardo, kidnapped, raped and murdered Leslie Mahaffy, 14, of Burlington, Ont., in 1991. One year later, the couple killed Kristen French, 15, of St. Catharines, Ont.
Bernardo is serving two concurrent life sentences for the murder, while Homolka pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
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3 in 4 B.C. boys on street sexually exploited by women
VANCOUVER - Canada's largest study into the sexual exploitation of street kids and runaways has shattered some myths about who the abusers might be - with the most surprising finding being that many are women seeking sex with young males.
"Some youth in each gender were exploited by women with more than three out of four (79 per cent) sexually exploited males reporting exchanging sex for money or goods with a female," said Elizabeth Saewyc, associate professor of nursing at the University of British Columbia and principal investigator for the study conducted by Vancouver's McCreary Centre Society.
"I must admit it wasn't something we were expecting."
Mom drugged daughter to get her pregnant: police
Associate Press, U.S.A.
April 3, 2009
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A western Pennsylvania mother has been charged with giving her 13-year-old daughter drugs and alcohol so the woman's boyfriend could impregnate the girl without her knowing, police said Thursday.
Shana Brown, 32, is no longer able to have children but wanted to have a baby with her current boyfriend, Duane Calloway, said Uniontown Police Detective Donald Gmitter. The pair decided to drug the girl so Calloway, 40, could have sex with her, he added.
"There's some sick people on this case," Gmitter said.
Brown has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child, turned herself in Thursday and was being held in the Fayette County jail, police said. Brown's attorney did not return a call for comment.
Calloway faces several counts of attempted rape. He was arrested Wednesday and remains in jail. It was not immediately clear whether he had an attorney.
The three attacks occurred in Brown's home in Uniontown, about 50 miles south of Pittsburgh, according to the criminal complaint.
The Oprah Winfrey Show
Lisa Ling Video Interview of Female Sexual Predator / Offender
This woman raped or sexually assaulted over 100 children by her own account.
Our blind rage at women who abuse
Because we assume women never commit child sexual abuse, we treat one who is accused with disproportionate disgust
The Guardian, UK
June 11, 2009
About 20 years ago, I gave a talk about sexual abuse to the RAF. At the end, a young airman came up to me and said, "It's not just men, you know," before hurriedly walking away. That pulled me up sharp. Up till then, like most people working in the area of sexual abuse, I'd always assumed the abusers were men.
This just isn't so. We can't be sure of the precise prevalence of sexual abuse by women, as there hasn't been enough research into the subject. Academics have just assumed it doesn't happened. But conservative estimates suggest that 5% of girls and 20% of boys who have reported being abused have been abused by women. From my own research - I have had 800 cases reported to me - I believe the more likely figure is that it is 20% of all sexual abuse that is done by women.
It is women themselves who have done most to propagate this conspiracy of silence. It has almost become a feminist axiom that it is men who are to blame for abuse and that if women are in some way implicated, it is only because they have somehow been forced or controlled into doing so against their will. Again, this turns out to be completely incorrect: 75% of the cases reported to me involved women acting on their own. Read More ..
Why you shouldn't see VAGINA MONOLOGUES
Lesbian Pedophilia and the rape of girls
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Mother confesses to sex with sons
Had intercourse with 2 teenagers
Pleads guilty to incest charges
A Kitchener woman has pleaded guilty to having sexual intercourse with her two teenage sons on separate occasions.
Woman who cut off her newborn son's private parts handed 5-year prison term
Mainichi Daily News, Sakai, Osaka, Japan, November 26, 2006
SAKAI, Osaka -- A woman accused of cutting off her newborn son's private parts in 2004 was ordered Monday to spend five years behind bars.
The Sakai branch of the Osaka District Court convicted Shizue Tamura, 27, a resident of Izumi, Osaka Prefecture, of inflicting bodily injury.
"The way she committed the crime was unprecedented, inhumane and cruel," Presiding Judge Masahiro Hosoi said as he handed down the ruling. Prosecutors had demanded an eight-year prison term. Read More ..
Up to 64,000 women in UK 'are child-sex offenders'
After Plymouth case shocked the nation, police say number of women abusing children
The Guardian UK and The Observer
4 October 2009
Researchers from the Lucy Faithfull Foundation (LFF), a child protection charity that deals with British female sex offenders, said its studies confirmed that a "fair proportion" of child abusers were women. Donald Findlater, director of research and development, said results indicated that up to 20% of a conservative estimate of 320,000 suspected UK paedophiles were women.
Female Teacher Charged With Sex Assault on Seventh-Grade Boy
Associated Press / Fox News
MORRISTOWN, N.J. — A 35-year-old seventh-grade teacher was charged with having sex with one of her students at least 20 times at the teacher's home.
Jodi Thorp, 35, surrendered to authorities Monday on charges of aggravated sexual assault, aggravated sexual contact and endangering the welfare of a child. Prosecutors claim she had sex with the boy at her Mendham home between June 2001 and September 2002. The boy is now 15.