Bernardo admits more rapes
The Toronto Star, NICK PRON, STAFF REPORTER, Feb. 21, 2006
Paul Bernardo, jailed for life in Kingston Penitentiary for murdering two teenage girls and committing 14 rapes, recently confessed to sexually assaulting at least 10 other women in attacks not previously blamed on him, the Star has learned.
The authorities were told of the assaults this past November, information relayed to them from Bernardo, who wanted to clear up some "loose ends" in his case, a source said.
It is not clear why Bernardo has decided to come forward now Read More .. than 10 years after he was convicted to confess to the new series of rapes he claims to have committed between 1986 and 1991.
The majority of those assaults took place in 1986, a year before what police have called the beginning of the reign of terror by the Scarborough Rapist.
While authorities suspected Bernardo had been involved in other crimes, such as a string of rapes in Amherst, N.Y., or the mysterious drowning death of Terri Anderson in St. Catharines, he has never acknowledged until now his involvement in any other offences.
In 1993, Bernardo's ex-wife, Karla Homolka, told police how Bernardo once bragged to her that he had raped as many as 30 women, double the 15 assaults police suspected he had committed. She described him as "the happy rapist."
Bernardo, now 41, was convicted in 1995 for the slayings of Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy, and sentenced to life in prison, with no hope of parole for 25 years.
After his trial, he confessed to sexually assaulting 14 women and was declared a dangerous offender, meaning he can be jailed indefinitely. Typically, hearings are held every few years to determine if a person should be released.
Bernardo is housed in a cell about three paces long and an arm's-width across in a wing off-limits to other inmates. Prison officials have refused all requests for interviews.
The latest development in the decade-old case came late last year when Bernardo asked his lawyer, Tony Bryant, to forward to the authorities his involvement in other assaults.
Late last night, Bryant had little to say about the latest chapter in the never-ending saga.
"My client has instructed me to take some appropriate steps to clear some outstanding issues," Bryant said.
It wasn't clear if any of the 10 women Bernardo is now saying he assaulted have been re-interviewed by police. A senior officer with the force declined comment.
Until now, it was believed Bernardo's rampage started in May 1987 when a woman was assaulted after getting off a bus late at night in Scarborough. Police later dubbed her attacker the Scarborough Rapist, and launched one of the biggest manhunts in Toronto, at one time offering a reward of $150,000 for his capture.
In the wake of the rapes, the TTC allowed bus drivers to let passengers get off closer to home, and not just at bus stops, to foil any attacks by predators.
The task force hunting the rapist, at one time numbering 50 officers, was quietly disbanded by 1991 as the attacks stopped, around the same time Bernardo had moved to St. Catharines.
In August 1991, investigators in St. Catharines acknowledged publicly the person they were looking for in Mahaffy's slaying may be the same person wanted by Toronto police for the Scarborough rapes.
During the three years of rapes in Scarborough, police said the prowler had attacked eight women. In fact, investigators suspected the number was 12 but never made that figure public for investigative reasons.
`My client has instructed me ... to clear some outstanding issues' --Tony Bryant, Paul Bernardo's lawyer
The police got close to an arrest after the attack on his eighth victim on Sheppard Ave., near Midland Ave., in May 1990.
She gave police his description and Bernardo was asked to come in for questioning when police got a tip he looked like the composite sketch.
But he was released after questioning and a DNA sample he gave to investigators at the time languished on a shelf at the crime lab while he moved to Port Dalhousie, going on to murder the two schoolgirls and rape another woman.
Bernardo and Homolka also drugged her sister, Tammy, and assaulted her. She choked on her vomit and died, the death ruled accidental at the time.
Bernardo was arrested after police spoke with Homolka when she left him. He beat her and threatened to kill her.
When his DNA sample was finally tested, he was linked to 15 rapes in Scarborough and Toronto. In 1995, he confessed to 13 of the attacks, plus the 14th assault in Port Dalhousie.
Details of the new assaults were sketchy, such as one that is said to have occurred sometime in 1989 outside an apartment building at Kennedy Rd. and the 401 area.
One assault took place in March 1986 on Sir Raymond Dr. in Guildwood Village, where Bernardo lived with his parents.
According to sources, at least one of the rapes took place at the University of Toronto's Scarborough campus in late 1986.
In 1990, U of T student Elizabeth Bain disappeared from the same campus. Her body was never found and Robert Baltovich was convicted in 1992 of second-degree murder in her death and jailed. He was released on bail in 2000 pending an appeal.
During the appeal, Baltovich's lawyers raised the possibility Bernardo should be considered a viable suspect in Bain's murder, after presumably being introduced to her.
The appeal court overturned the verdict in December 2004, ordering a new trial after criticizing Baltovich's trial judge for his pro-Crown charge to the jury that "denigrated and ridiculed" his defence.
It's not known what impact Bernardo's admission to the sexual assault at the U of T's Scarborough campus will have on Baltovich's new trial.
Pre-trial arguments in the trial are tentatively slated for this summer. Baltovich's next court appearance is March 23.
The authorities had long suspected Bernardo was responsible for other assaults and even murders. Investigators had gone to his cell and questioned him about the murders of Lynda Shaw and Cindy Halliday.
But Bernardo maintained he had no involvement in any slayings, including French and Mahaffy, blaming his former wife for killing the two teens.
Homolka was released from prison last July after serving out her full 12-year sentence for her role in the slayings. She is living in the Montreal area.
While Halliday's slaying has never been solved, investigators said DNA has convinced them a paroled killer living in a halfway house in Woodstock killed Shaw. He has since died.
It was Homolka who first raised the spectre that Bernardo may have raped other women, at least 16 and as many as 30.
In interviews with police in 1993, after she was convicted for her involvement in the deaths of French and Mahaffy, she said he bragged about the other rapes in a "really happy voice ... his chest puffed out, like a rooster."
Chronology
Jan. 5, 1988: Police interview Paul Bernardo's ex-girlfriend and report he should be considered a suspect in the case of the Scarborough Rapist.
Dec 24, 1990: Tammy Homolka, 15, sister of Karla Homolka, dies after being drugged and sexually assaulted by Bernardo and Karla.
June 15, 1991: Leslie Mahaffy, 14, is abducted in Burlington by Bernardo.
June 29, 1991: Mahaffy's remains found encased in concrete in Lake Gibson. They are found by fisherman on the same day Homolka marries Bernardo.
April 16, 1992: Kristen French, 15, is abducted by Homolka and Bernardo. She is sexually assaulted and killed. Body found in Burlington April 30.
Jan. 6, 1993: Homolka leaves Bernardo.
Feb. 1, 1993: Bernardo's DNA test shows a match to Scarborough Rapist.
Feb. 9, 1993: Police interview Homolka for six hours; she never mentions the murders, or circumstances of sister's death.
Feb. 17, 1993: Bernardo arrested for rapes, named prime suspect in French, Mahaffy murders.
May 14, 1993: Province signs plea-bargain with Homolka in return for testimony against Bernardo.
May 18, 1993: Homolka is charged with two counts of manslaughter in the deaths of French and Mahaffy.
May 19, 1993: Bernardo is charged with two counts each of first-degree murder, kidnapping, forcible confinement and aggravated sexual assault, and one count of committing an indignity to a body.
June 28, 1993: Homolka's trial begins
July 6, 1993: Homolka is convicted of manslaughter in the two slayings during a closed, one-day trial and sentenced to 12 years.
July 6, 1993: Homolka delivered to Kingston Prison for Women.
July 20, 1993: Tammy Homolka's body is exhumed for a second autopsy.
March 30, 1994: Crown cancels Bernardo's preliminary hearing and sends him directly to trial.
May 4, 1994: Bernardo pleads not guilty
Sept. 1, 1995: Bernardo found guilty, gets life term.
Nov. 2, 1995: Bernardo declared dangerous offender, jailed indefinitely. Admits 13 of 15 attacks blamed on Scarborough Rapist.
Jan. 6, 1997: Homolka eligible for day parole.
June 10 1997: Homolka is moved to the prison for women in Joliette, Que.
March 8, 2001: Parole board rules Homolka must serve full sentence.
July 4, 2005: Homolka released from prison.
The biased words highlighted below should be "sexual assault", "raped" or similar type words NOT "sexual relationship" or "had sex"
Female sex offenders reveal cultural double standard
The Seattle Times
September 10, 2007
It all seems so terribly familiar.
A trusted, even respected or beloved teacher is accused of having a sexual relationship with a student.
What used to shock us, but is now much too commonplace, is that the teacher is a woman.
Their names become tabloid headlines: Mary K. Letourneau, Debra Lafave, Pamela Diehl-Moore and others.
And now two more cases, both local.
Jennifer Leigh Rice, a 31-year-old former Tacoma teacher, was charged with having sex with a 10-year-old boy who had been in her fourth-grade class. The boy's father says she lavished the boy with attention until she was told not to come to their house anymore.
So she abducted the boy, police say, drove him to a highway rest stop outside Ellensburg and had sex with him. After her arrest in early August, Rice said she'd had sex with the boy four or five times, including once when she sneaked into his house as his parents slept.
Earlier this year, former Tenino math teacher Dawn Welter, 38, was charged with second-degree sexual misconduct after spending the night at a motel with a 16-year-old female student. Her lawyer explained her relationship with the student as "horseplay that became sexual."
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FEMALE RAPISTS STRUCK BEFORE All-woman rape gang who kidnapped man, 23, and sexually abused him for three days linked to at least SEVEN other attacks, South African cops fear
The men are often fed Viagra and one even watched as his semen was put into vials and frozen in a cool box
The Sun, UK, Jamie Pyatt, Corey Charlton, May 30, 2017
DETECTIVES believe a gang of three women who kidnapped a man and put him through a three day rape ordeal may have struck a number of times before in South Africa.
Officers are to look at up to SEVEN cases in recent years where a male has been kidnapped – sometimes at gunpoint – by three women who have then repeatedly raped him.
The men are often fed Viagra in an energy drink to make them perform and one victim of a three woman gang watched as his semen was put into small vials and frozen in a cool box.
One cop involved in one of the investigations said he believe there was a trade in selling the stolen semen to faith healers or "witch doctors" who use it to make "magic" potions.
The latest attack in Pretoria - the country's capital - has led police to appeal for other potential victims to spare their blushes and report it.
Although at least seven cases have been on police files for several years, many more are believed to have gone unreported as men are often too embarrassed to report being raped by women.
The Sun Online told earlier how the latest kidnap victim was found traumatised and exhausted after being dumped in a field semi-naked and told officers about his 72-hour sex ordeal.
The 23-year-old man said he was in a 15 seater communal taxi in which three young women were already travelling and he was told by the driver to sit in the front beside him.
Police spokesperson Captain Colette Weilbach said: "One of the women the allegedly injected him with an unknown substance and he passed out and woke up in an unfamiliar room.
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 ..
FEMALE RAPISTS STRUCK BEFORE All-woman rape gang who kidnapped man, 23, and sexually abused him for three days linked to at least SEVEN other attacks, South African cops fear
The men are often fed Viagra and one even watched as his semen was put into vials and frozen in a cool box
The Sun, UK, Jamie Pyatt, Corey Charlton, May 30, 2017
DETECTIVES believe a gang of three women who kidnapped a man and put him through a three day rape ordeal may have struck a number of times before in South Africa.
Officers are to look at up to SEVEN cases in recent years where a male has been kidnapped – sometimes at gunpoint – by three women who have then repeatedly raped him.
The men are often fed Viagra in an energy drink to make them perform and one victim of a three woman gang watched as his semen was put into small vials and frozen in a cool box.
One cop involved in one of the investigations said he believe there was a trade in selling the stolen semen to faith healers or "witch doctors" who use it to make "magic" potions.
The latest attack in Pretoria - the country's capital - has led police to appeal for other potential victims to spare their blushes and report it.
Although at least seven cases have been on police files for several years, many more are believed to have gone unreported as men are often too embarrassed to report being raped by women.
The Sun Online told earlier how the latest kidnap victim was found traumatised and exhausted after being dumped in a field semi-naked and told officers about his 72-hour sex ordeal. Read More ..
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Female Sex Offenders in the Correctional Service of Canada, Case
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LITERATURE REVIEW ON FEMALE SEX OFFENDERS
Although there is an increasing literature on male sex offenders, there is a noticeable dearth of information concerning female sex offenders. Most of the work in the area has come from three of the largest prison programs for female sex offenders in Missouri, Minnesota, and Kentucky.
OVERALL NEGLECT OF FEMALE SEXUAL OFFENCES
For a variety of societal reasons, female sexual abuse is likely to remain unnoticed. Some researchers have found that the incidence of sexual contact with boys by women is much more prevalent than is contended in the clinical literature (Condy, Templer Brown & Veaco, 1987). Despite society's increasing concern about sexual assault, there may be several reasons for the under-reporting of female sexual abuse of both child and adult victims. Traditionally, society has held preconceptions of women as non-violent nurturers. Women in general, and mothers mopre specifically, have more freedom than men to touch children (Marvasti, 1986). Therefore, a man may be mpre easily perceived as abusive when touching a child than when a woman touches a child in a similar manner (Plummer, 1981). Further, sexual offences perpetrated by women are often incestuous in nature and children may be reluctant to report sexual contact with a parent on whom they are dependent (Groth, 1979). Health care workers are often unable to detect mother-child incest as mothers often accompany their children to the doctor's office. This may serve as a barrier to detecting sexual abuse of the child (Elliott & Peterson, 1993). The medical profession is only reluctantly becoming sensitive to the fact that females can, in fact, be perpetrators of sexual abuse (Wilkins, 1990; Krug, 1989).
EXAMEN DE LA DOCUMENTATION SUR LES DÉLINQUANTES SEXUELLES
La documentation sur les délinquants sexuels s'accroît alors que l'information sur les délinquantes sexuelles est clairement déficiente. La plupart des travaux en ce domaine proviennent de trois des programmes les plus importants établis pour les délinquantes sexuelles au Missouri, au Minnesota et au Kentucky.
DÉSINTÉRESSEMENT GÉNÉRAL À L'ÉGARD DES INFRACTIONS SEXUELLES COMMISES PAR DES FEMMES
Pour diverses raisons sociales, les mauvais traitements sexuels infligés par les femmes demeurent généralement cachés. Certains chercheurs ont découvert que l'incidence des contacts sexuels entre des femmes et des garçons est beaucoup plus élevée que ne l'estime la documentation clinique (Condy, Templer Brown et Veaco, 1987). En dépit du fait que la société se préoccupe de plus en plus de l'agression sexuelle, plusieurs raisons pourraient faire que l'on parle moins des cas de mauvais traitements sexuels infligés par des femmes à des enfants ou à des adultes. La société a toujours perçu les femmes comme des nourricières non violentes. Les femmes en général, et surtout les mères, ont plus de latitude pour toucher les enfants que les hommes (Marvasti, 1986). Par conséquent, un homme qui touche un enfant de la même manière que le fait une femme peut être plus facilement perçu comme un agresseur (Plummer, 1981). En outre, les infractions sexuelles commises par des femmes sont souvent de nature incestueuse et les enfants peuvent hésiter à dénoncer un contact sexuel avec un parent dont ils dépendent (Groth, 1979). Les travailleurs du domaine de la santé sont souvent incapables de déceler les cas d'inceste entre l'enfant et la mère car cette dernière accompagne souvent l'enfant au bureau du médecin. Cela peut empêcher de dépister les mauvais traitements sexuels infligés à l'enfant (Elliott et Peterson, 1993). La profession médicale prend à contrecoeur conscience du fait que les femmes peuvent en fait infliger de mauvais traitements sexuels. (Wilkins, 1990; Krug, 1989). Read More ...
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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.
Female Teacher jailed for sex with boy
The Guardian, UK
August 16, 2005
A married primary schoolteacher was jailed for 15 months yesterday after admitting having sex with an underage teenage boy.
Hannah Grice, 32, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to two counts of indecent assault on the boy, who was aged 14 and 15 at the time of the offences.
Sentencing her at Stafford crown court, Judge John Shand told Grice, from Cannock, Staffordshire, she had abused her position of trust.
"Cases such as this are, of course, made worse by the fact that you were a member of the teaching profession," he told her. "You should have been very sensitive indeed to child welfare issues." Grice was also ordered to register as a sex offender for 10 years. Read More ..
The Manchester News UK
Pervert Woman Carer who Preyed on Boys is Jailed
The mother of one victim said after Bromiley was jailed: "If I could get hold of her I'd kill her. She stole my son's childhood and he's now in a terrible state and has threatened suicide. She got away lightly and should have got at least 10 years."
Judge David Hale explained that he was constrained by the law which only allows for specific charges to be brought when the offender is a woman. Had she been male, he said, the sentence would have been in double figures.
He said: "As a house mother you were in charge of children who were mentally and educationally disadvantaged and you took your own advantage of them for your own needs and sexual pleasure. This is the worst case of a woman abusing children in her care any court in the land has had to face." Read More ..
The Men's Project
"Men
of Courage"
1st Ontario Provincial Conference on Male Sexual Victimizations.
It was held March 17-18, 2008
Sheraton Centre Hotel
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Men's Project, an Ottawa / Cornwall registered charitable service provider with the assistance of a grant from the Ministry of the Attorney General, hosted this conference.
About The Men's Project
From what was initially a volunteer run initiative, The Men's Project has
grown to become one of Canada's leading counselling and educational agencies
for men and their families, and in particular for all male survivors of
sexual abuse committed by males and females.
The Men's Project has witnessed incredible expansion of their funded services, their fee-for-service programs, and their training and consultation services.
Their mandate is "helping men and their families build better lives". Read More ..
Angry scenes as nursery worker appears in court on sexual assault charges
Vanessa George remanded in custody after crowds jeer from public gallery and throw missiles outside court
The Guardian, UK
June 11, 2009
A nursery school worker was jeered and spat at when she appeared in court today, charged with sexual assault and making and distributing child abuse images.
Vanessa George, 39, who worked at the Little Ted's nursery in Plymouth, was remanded in custody amid angry scenes in and outside the city's magistrates court.
George, of Plymouth, faces three counts of sexual assault on girls and one on a boy. She is also accused of making, possessing and distributing indecent images of children. Read More ..