NAPANEE—I would like to say that prison has taken its toll on Paul Bernardo.I would like to report that the monster inside has excreted through his pores, like viscera, and ravaged his face.At the very least, I would like to assure that the years behind bars, in segregation, have been outwardly unkind.But no. Astonishingly, the serial killer and serial rapist — serial psychopath — appears little changed from the man who, in 1995, was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for at least 25 years.He tortured and murdered 15-year-old Kristen French after keeping the schoolgirl captive for three days, the teen enduring unspeakable sexual horrors.He tortured and murdered and then dismembered the body of 14-year-old Leslie Mahaffy, encasing the poor girl’s remains in blocks of cement that were tossed into a St. Catharines lake.And still that boyish face … the same harmless-looking face he turned to Leslie on the night he spotted the Grade 9 student outside her home in Burlington, locked out, and offered a cigarette, the smokes back in his car, instead forcing her into the vehicle ….If only the savages among us looked like what they are.Guilty on two counts each of first-degree murder, kidnapping, forcible confinement, aggravated sexual assault, and one count of committing an indignity to a human body. All of it, but for the actual killings, captured on video — pre-selfie days, unprecedented for Canadian courts — and played for the jury.Aided and abetted, in the kidnapping of French, by his odious wife Karla Homolka, his partner in crime and sexual assault and killing. Homolka’s younger sister Tammy violated, too, as she lay drugged and unconscious — the added-on “manslaughter” charge.The Scarborough Rapist, ultimately admitting to 14 increasingly violent sexual attacks, resulting in Bernardo being designated a dangerous offender, making the possibility of parole, ever, highly unl ...
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