Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said the decision by the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) to transfer serial killer Paul Bernardo to a medium-security institution is “shocking and incomprehensible.”
“Our thoughts are with the families of Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy, and all those affected by these horrific crimes,” he said in a statement on June 2.
Dubbed the “Scarborough Rapist,” Bernardo was convicted in 1995 of kidnapping, sexually assaulting, murdering, and dismembering 15-year-old French and 14-year-old Mahaffy in the early 1990s near St. Catharines, Ontario.
Bernardo was initially incarcerated at the Kingston Penitentiary in Ontario and later spent about a decade at the Millhaven Institution, a maximum security prison just outside Kingston….