Prison not enough for mother who strangled daughter to death
“Mommy, don't.”
Those were the last words 12 year-old Karissa Boudreau ever said in this life as her mother slowly strangled her to death last January.
Penny Boudreau, 34, from Bridgewater, Nova Scotia plead guilty last week to choking her daughter to death with a piece of twine in an attempt to save her relationship with a boyfriend after he demanded she choose between him or her daughter. She chose him.
"The thought of losing him was worse than the thought of losing her," Boudreau told an undercover officer.
The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia heard how Boudreau drove Karissa to an isolated spot near Bridgewater just about this time last year. Boudreau tackled Karissa, pinned her down, wrapped twine around her neck and strangled her.
Karissa begged for her life - “Mommy, don't,” – but Boudreau kept the pressure on until her daughter’s last breath was gone.
After Karissa was dead, Boudreau dragged her lifeless body back to her car, put the twine she had used as a murder weapon in an empty coffee cup and threw it away.
She drove to another spot, rolled Karissa’s corpse down a river bank and later threw some of Karissa's clothes in a public garbage can, trying to fool police into thinking she’d fallen victim to a sex offender.
Reporting her daughter missing, she then went on television to beg for Karissa to come home before her frozen body was discovered a few weeks later.
Boudreau was arrested for the murder in June 2008 and was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 20 years last week.
Boudreau now joins the ranks of a select club of murdering moms like Susan Smith, who killed her two boys in 1994 to have a relationship with a man who had no interest in ready-made families. At first, she also told police her kids were abducted and shed her crocodile tears begging for their return on TV. It was later revealed she pushed her car into a South Carolina lake, drowning her sons.
Then there’s the case of Diane Downs who shot her three children, killing one, in Oregon in 1983. Prosecutors said she wanted to get rid of her kids to stay in a relationship with a man who didn't want children.
No question, 20 years in prison is a pretty fair chunk of time for almost any crime.
Almost.
But personally, I’m not too keen on letting cold-hearted, child-murdering monsters like her live.
I think burning her at the stake would be a more appropriate punishment, or maybe throwing stones at her until she’s mush. Yeah. Nothing like good old-fashioned capital punishment for someone who can hear her own child begging for her life with her last breath and strangle her anyway.
Those were the last words 12 year-old Karissa Boudreau ever said in this life as her mother slowly strangled her to death last January.
Penny Boudreau, 34, from Bridgewater, Nova Scotia plead guilty last week to choking her daughter to death with a piece of twine in an attempt to save her relationship with a boyfriend after he demanded she choose between him or her daughter. She chose him.
"The thought of losing him was worse than the thought of losing her," Boudreau told an undercover officer.
The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia heard how Boudreau drove Karissa to an isolated spot near Bridgewater just about this time last year. Boudreau tackled Karissa, pinned her down, wrapped twine around her neck and strangled her.
Karissa begged for her life - “Mommy, don't,” – but Boudreau kept the pressure on until her daughter’s last breath was gone.
After Karissa was dead, Boudreau dragged her lifeless body back to her car, put the twine she had used as a murder weapon in an empty coffee cup and threw it away.
She drove to another spot, rolled Karissa’s corpse down a river bank and later threw some of Karissa's clothes in a public garbage can, trying to fool police into thinking she’d fallen victim to a sex offender.
Reporting her daughter missing, she then went on television to beg for Karissa to come home before her frozen body was discovered a few weeks later.
Boudreau was arrested for the murder in June 2008 and was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 20 years last week.
Boudreau now joins the ranks of a select club of murdering moms like Susan Smith, who killed her two boys in 1994 to have a relationship with a man who had no interest in ready-made families. At first, she also told police her kids were abducted and shed her crocodile tears begging for their return on TV. It was later revealed she pushed her car into a South Carolina lake, drowning her sons.
Then there’s the case of Diane Downs who shot her three children, killing one, in Oregon in 1983. Prosecutors said she wanted to get rid of her kids to stay in a relationship with a man who didn't want children.
No question, 20 years in prison is a pretty fair chunk of time for almost any crime.
Almost.
But personally, I’m not too keen on letting cold-hearted, child-murdering monsters like her live.
I think burning her at the stake would be a more appropriate punishment, or maybe throwing stones at her until she’s mush. Yeah. Nothing like good old-fashioned capital punishment for someone who can hear her own child begging for her life with her last breath and strangle her anyway.
posted by Street Wise Guy | 7:34 AM
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