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the pain that reliving their loss causes and wouldn't want to be a party to creating more of it. But all of those cases ended in Justice. Those families had the closure that Justice provides and were able to look at the dramatic portrayal of their loved ones as making a difference, either in preventing a similar crime or raising awareness of a problem.

The victims in the Bernardo/Homolka case did not receive Justice and that's why the feelings about it run so high whenever the story reappears. But something bigger keeps Justice from happening and I still don't know why.

We all understand that Governments lie and sometimes Justice is perverted to serve a "greater good" or to protect someone or something larger than the rest of us can understand. And often I wonder what that something or someone was here. Who did Karla get to or who needed to keep her free? What person in power did she touch at some level or who needed to protect her? Even my best conspiracy theory generator can't come up with one that makes sense.

So now Karla may have spawned and the powers that be insist she's rehabilitated, has served her debt to society and/or has the right to build a new life. Maybe that's true. Maybe I should just forget it and move on.

But those tapes of children being tortured keep playing in my head and the images I get tonight are of a woman in a garret nursery in old Montreal, cooing over a cradle - just like the last scene in "Rosemary's Baby".

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