Paul Bernardo Research Papers

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There are other violent crimes and other than gang violence or juveniles who kill their parents. There are juvenile who rape and shoot up their own schools. With that being said I will talk about a juvenile who raped and murdered two young girls and two young boys who shoot up their high school. On October 17, 1987, then 17-year-old Karla Homolka met then 23-year-old Paul Bernardo in an Ontario hotel restaurant. Their physical attraction was immediate and intense, and two hours later the couple had sex in one of the hotel’s rooms.
Unknown to Homolka, the handsome boy-next-door Paul Bernardo had already embarked on a clandestine career as a serial rapist. In May of 1987, Bernardo raped a young woman in Scarborough, a small suburban town northeast of Toronto on the shores of Lake …show more content…

After stripping and blindfolding the terrified girl, Bernardo woke his future wife up and proceeded to act as a movie director while videotaping Homolka performing lesbian sexual acts on Mahaffy. Homolka then took over the camera while Bernardo initiated a violent assault on the young girl, including brutal anal rape. Bernardo’s violence continued to escalate until Mahaffy finally died. The two then dismembered her body and dumped the parts into Lake Ontario.
Bernardo and Homolka married June 29, 1991, and Bernardo continued his campaign of rape, often with Homolka’s encouragement and assistance. At least one victim recalled seeing a woman videotaping her rape.
On April 16, 1992, the married rapists/killers abducted 16-year-old Kristen French from the parking lot outside of French’s church. They then raped, tortured, and murdered the pretty young girl and left her nude body in a roadside ditch.
DNA evidence finally led to Bernardo’s arrest on February 17, 1993. Homolka agreed to testify against him in exchange for a sentence of just 12 years for her role as an