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   From: gregcarrsober@gmail.com   
      
    From a prison cell, serial sex killer Paul Bernardo has charmed and   
   manipulated an attractive, university-educated woman into planning to   
   marry him, the Toronto Sun has learned.   
      
   The 30-year-old London, Ont., woman admitted she has been writing   
   letters to the Scarborough Rapist, telling friends the schoolgirl killer   
   is “innocent” and was a bystander to the rapes and torture slayings of   
   Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy.   
      
   Sporting a recent ankle tattoo that says “Paul’s girl” in cursive   
   writing, she has been corresponding with Bernardo since last fall.   
      
   But with the relationship now coming to light, the woman said she “did   
   something that got people upset and she is rethinking ... and struggling   
   with it.”   
      
   The bride-to-be told friends she has wedding bands and described her   
   “Paul” as someone who’s serving time “for the most horrible crimes you   
   could imagine.   
      
   “He is a kind man, a Christian, a very nice man,” she told the Sun.   
      
   A friend quoted her as saying: “He told her not to tell her parents   
   until after they were married.”   
      
   In an interview, the blonde deflected question after question about   
   marrying Bernardo, but never indicated she didn’t want to wed him or   
   that the wedding plans were off.   
      
   An independent source confirmed the woman, whom the Sun has decided not   
   to identify at this time, took steps to advance a plan to wed Bernardo.   
      
   However, her parents insisted their daughter is reconsidering the   
   decision as “reality has set in.   
      
   “She said Bernardo called her ‘the most beautiful woman in the world,’   
   ”   
   her father said.   
      
   When asked how the sex killer could manipulate her into a relationship,   
   he said: “She has had a number of bad relationships that undermined her   
   self-esteem despite her brilliance. She is looking for someone who will   
   love her unconditionally.”​   
      
   Her father agreed the woman’s intelligence, emotional fragility and   
   belief in her own street smarts made her the perfect victim for Bernardo.   
      
   He said his daughter also believed in Bernardo’s innocence.   
      
   “He has convinced her that he didn’t do this (rapes or murders). But,   
   after the conversation last week, I think she has changed her mind.”   
      
   The family is hoping that she has abandoned the ill-conceived plan.   
      
   “It was very easy for him to get her locked into a train of thought.   
   I’ve been very explicit that he actually did these things and reality   
   sunk in this last week in a big way,” the father said.   
      
   “I am getting the feeling that from the way she was defending him in the   
   beginning that now reality has finally kicked in and she realizes, ‘What   
   have I got myself into?’ ” he said.   
      
   “I mean, to the point, she’s desperate to get a job today because she’s   
   afraid of what this news would do.   
      
   “I told her the media have something that indicates (you are planning to   
   marry him) and she says, ‘Well, he doesn’t get out for three more years   
   (2018, first eligibility for parole).’ I bluntly told her, ‘Dear, he’s   
   never going to get out.’ ”   
      
   Describing his daughter as “brilliant but psychologically and   
   emotionally fragile and lacking in street smarts,” the father said she   
   replied that Bernardo’s “a Canadian citizen and is applying as a right   
   to get out on full parole.   
      
   “She totally denied planning to marry him,” said the father, who was   
   interviewed several times last week.   
      
   He and his wife confronted their daughter in January or February this   
   year after learning she had been writing letters to Bernardo in order to   
   “research” a book.   
      
   “Her mom said, ‘Don’t you even write him because everything you write is   
   documented. Nothing goes through (undetected) and you don’t want to be   
   even known as anyone who has even written to this person,’ ” the father   
   said. “We believed that was the end of it.”   
      
   The woman described asking her pastor about forgiveness, referring to   
   Bernardo without naming him.   
      
   She quoted the pastor as saying, “It is not for another person to judge   
   his brother.   
      
   “And I said, ‘But what about the worst thing ever, could that be   
   forgiven?’ ” she recalled.   
      
   “He said, ‘As soon as that person committed the act, God has already   
   forgiven him,’ ” she said in an interview.   
      
   Two weeks ago, the Sun contacted the father, inquiring whether he knew   
   if his daughter was corresponding with an inmate with whom she wanted a   
   relationship.   
      
   The father immediately blurted out: “It’s Paul Bernardo, Oh my God, Oh   
   my God.   
      
   “I went to see her last week. And she didn’t deny writing the letters   
   (since February). She said she hadn’t opened the last three letters he   
   had written,” the father said. “We haven’t seen anything.”   
      
   It was a few months ago that a friend of the woman noticed something new   
   on her left ankle: A tattoo that read: “Paul’s girl.”   
      
   In an interview, the woman insisted the tattoo referred to a high school   
   friend — not Bernardo.   
      
   But a friend who knew her since their university days disagreed.   
      
   “She did mention she was seeing somebody named Paul, that he had done   
   some time. She made it sound like he was a working accountant in Toronto   
   and they had wedding bands,” the friend revealed.   
      
   “She said he told her not to tell her parents they were getting married   
   until after it was over,” the friend said.   
      
   “She said it wasn’t really him who did it. He was just there and it was   
   the worst crime you could imagine,” a friend quoted her as saying. “She   
   maintains he’s innocent.”   
      
   The woman’s friend was dumbfounded when informed that her friend’s   
   “fiance” was actually one of Canada’s most notorious serial killers and   
   rapists.   
      
   “I was aware she was dating someone named Paul, but I didn’t know that   
   it was Paul Bernardo. It’s pretty crazy,” the friend said.   
      
   “She’s a really smart girl, but has troubles. It doesn’t completely   
   surprise me she wrote him a letter, but the fact she is actually   
   planning on marrying him ... that’s nuts,” she told the Sun.   
      
   Bernardo, 50, is serving a life sentence for the first-degree murders of   
   the two schoolgirls and was also declared a dangerous offender in 1995   
   after pleading guilty to 32 sex-related crimes, including 12 rapes in   
   the east end of Toronto dating to 1987.   
      
   Bernardo turned down a request to be interviewed by the Sun, which was   
   forwarded by Correctional Service Canada.   
      
   CSC stated privacy laws dictate it “cannot discuss the specifics of an   
   inmate’s case.”   
      
   In Canada, all inmates, with the exception of those on disciplinary   
   restrictions or at risk for family violence or identified as Special   
   Handling Unit cases, are permitted “private family visits” of up to 72   
   hours duration once every two months.   
      
      
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