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Homolka Gives Birth
February 10, 2007 permalink
Canadians can be proud of their newest mother, Karla Homolka. Since she has no history of child abuse, the baby was not seized by social workers in the delivery room.
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Toronto Sun, February 9, 2007
... And baby makes 3
Now new mom Karla set to wed in Caribbean
By ALAN CAIRNS, SUN MEDIA
Karla Homolka is nursing a newborn baby, Sun Media has confirmed.
Using the name Leanne Teale, Homolka gave birth to a 7-pound baby boy Saturday at St. Mary's Hospital in Montreal.
Homolka and the baby's father took the newborn child to their bungalow on Montreal's South Shore Monday.
The couple plan to jet off to the sunny Caribbean, where they will get married in the Antilles islands, sources told the Journal de Montreal, but first they have to secure a passport for the baby.
It is not known if the couple is going to the West Indies only for marriage, or whether they plan to leave Canada forever.
According to an anonymous letter sent to the Journal de Montreal, Homolka was first admitted to St. Mary's Hospital with contractions last Tuesday.
But the contractions proved to be false labour and Homolka was released after a few hours.
She returned again Friday morning and gave birth the next day.
"The baby had the umbilical cord rolled up around the neck, which complicated things a little," a source said.
St. Mary's Hospital officials said yesterday they will probe claims that hospital staff recognized Homolka and initially refused to give her treatment.
The confirmation of Homolka's baby comes despite denials by Homolka's sister and her lawyer, Sylvie Bordelais. Sources say Homolka was introduced to the baby's father by Bordelais.
"I do not know anything" other than what she read in yesterday's Toronto Sun, Bordelais said.
As reported in the Sun yesterday, rumours surrounding Homolka's motherhood were running rampant since the weekend.
Homolka, 36, spent 12 years in prison for her part in her ex-husband Paul Bernardo's sex murders of teens Leslie Mahaffy, 14, and Kristen French, 15, and the fatal drug rape of her own sister, Tammy, 15.
Homolka pleaded guilty to two counts of manslaughter and accepted the prison term in exchange for her testimony against Bernardo at his first-degree murder trial.
She claims to have been a battered woman and that Bernardo was the mastermind behind the rapes and deaths.
Homolka went into hiding after her release from prison July 5, 2005.
Reporters found the Homolka bungalow occupied in a visit this week.
Nobody answered the door, although occupants peeked out from behind the curtains.
Quebec children's aid said despite Homolka's past, the new mother will not automatically be scrutinized.
Homolka has said that she dreamed of meeting a new husband and having a baby ever since she was first imprisoned in 1993.
Source: Toronto Sun
Addendum: Five years later Karla is living in Guadeloupe in the Caribbean under the name Leanne Bordelais.
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Karla Homolka lives in Guadeloupe and has three children, new book reveals
Tanned, slimmer but still wary of strangers, Karla Homolka now has three children and lives in Guadeloupe under the name Leanne Bordelais, says a new book by journalist Paula Todd, who met the notorious former convict at her new home.
The book is the first confirmation of previous, sketchier news reports that Ms. Homolka married her lawyer’s brother, gave birth and moved to the French Caribbean island to escape public scrutiny.
She had lived in Quebec following her 2005 release from a 12-year sentence for her role in the lurid sex killings of two Ontario schoolgirls and the drug-induced death of her sister Tammy.
Ms. Todd wrote that she found Ms. Homolka in a small apartment with her new spouse, Thierry Bordelais, and their three small children, a girl and two boys.
“Does the woman who killed three children now have three of her own? The irony comes crashing in,” Ms. Todd wrote in the book, Finding Karla: How I Tracked Down an Elusive Serial Child Killer and Discovered a Mother of Three, which is to be released in electronic format Thursday afternoon.
The encounter took place this spring, the day after Ms. Homolka turned 42, meaning on May 5. After exploring a remote Guadeloupe area where she believed Ms. Homolka had relocated, Ms. Todd wrote that she found herself on a gravel sideroad, staring at a mailbox that said “Leanne Bordelais.”
Beyond the mailbox was a fenced apartment building. On the second floor, “I look through it into a tiny, tidy kitchen. There, bent over the sink, is a petite woman with light hair. She turns her face sideways to see who’s arriving. Then she freezes ...
“I have found Karla Homolka, and I’m not sure which of us is more shocked.”
Mr. Bordelais wanted Ms. Todd to leave but Ms. Homolka, though distrustful, was not outright dismissive and took her visitor to another room and quizzed her.
Ms. Todd explained that, as a journalist and lawyer, she wanted to research her life after prison.
“Why should I trust you? I have everything to lose,” Ms. Homolka replied.
When Ms. Todd tried to make small talk, saying that her host seeemed to be a good mother, Ms. Homolka snapped back, “That’s funny that you think you can judge that after seeing me this short time.”
Despite Ms. Homolka’s caginess, she kept her visitor for an hour. “I’d say she was lonely and slightly bored,” Ms. Todd said.
Mr. Bordelais reappeared, however, holding a phone with their lawyer on the line, ending the conversation before Ms. Homolka had made any substantive remark.
The book said that Ms. Homolka at that point made a slip that confirmed previous speculations that Mr. Bordelais is the brother of her long-time prison lawyer, Sylvie Bordelais.
Ms. Homolka ended the meeting, refusing to comment further. “Nobody cares, and everything I’ve said is off the record,” she told Ms. Todd.
Formerly married to the sex predator Paul Bernardo, Ms. Homolka was released from prison after serving her entire sentence in the deaths of Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy in the 1990s. She settled in Quebec, hoping that she was less known among francophones.
She changed her name to Karla Leanne Teale but reporters twice retraced her, at a suburban hardware store where she worked, then near an apartment in east-end Montreal. By 2007, the TVA television network reported that she had left for the Caribbean.
The ebook is available on Kobo, Kindle Singles, iBooks and Nook.
Source: Globe and Mail
