12 yrs on and she still makes my skin crawl

Karla a mom, ready to wed

Fri, February 9, 2007

Sources say the notorious killer and the baby boy’s father will tie the knot in the Caribbean.

By ALAN CAIRNS, SUN MEDIA

TORONTO — Karla Homolka is nursing a newborn baby, Sun Media has confirmed.

Using the name Leanne Teale, Homolka gave birth to a seven-pound baby boy on Saturday at St. Mary’s Hospital in Montreal.

Homolka and the baby’s father took the newborn child to their bungalow on the Montreal South Shore Monday.

The couple plan to jet off to the 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 whether 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 Jan. 30.

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 told the Journal de Montreal that Homolka was introduced to the baby’s father by Bordelais.

“I do not know anything,” Bordelais said, other than what she read in yesterday’s Sun Media newspapers.

As reported yesterday, rumours surrounding Homolka’s motherhood were running rampant since the weekend.

Homolka, who is now 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.

Homolka claims to have been a battered woman and that Bernardo was the mastermind behind the rapes and deaths.

The National Parole Board kept Homolka in prison for her full sentence, citing her possible psychopathy. She went into hiding after her release from prison July 5, 2005.

Journal de Montreal 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 dreamed of meeting a new husband and having a baby ever since she was first imprisoned in 1993.