So sad... I wonder how the mother is able to sleep at night? I hope she dreams and has nightmares about this every night for the rest of her life....
Unfortunately, I suspect she doesn't, and wont, though. If she was willing to murder her daughter because the daughter was getting in the way of the mother's relationship with her boyfriend, I suspect she doesn't have much of a conscience.
I wonder if the boyfriend is able to sleep at night... since he was the one who gave the ultimatum "Your daughter or me... ".
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Penny Patricia Boudreau pleaded guilty to second-degree murder today in a Bridgewater courtroom. She admitted strangling her only child because the 12 year old was getting in the way of her relationship with her boyfriend, Vernon Macumber.
Although the plea bargain reached by Crown and defence was for second-degree murder, the facts read in court revealed Ms Boudreau thought about the killing for days, carried it out, discarded her daughter’s body and covered up her crime.
“Surely, Penny Boudreau, you can never call yourself mother in conjunction with Karissa’s name again,” Justice Margaret Stewart concluded.
According to an agreed statement of facts which Crown attorney Paul Scovil read to the court, Ms Boudreau and Mr. Macumber were having issues because of Karissa in January 2008. Mr. Macumber gave Ms Boudreau an ultimatum to pick him or Karissa.
On the afternoon of January 27, Ms Boudreau took Karissa for a drive. She stopped at the Sobeys parking lot around 5:30 p.m., bought juice and bacon, and called Mr. Macumber indicating Karissa was not in the car when she left the store.
She then retrieved a piece of twine from the trunk, put it in her pocket and got back in the car with her daughter.
Ms Boudreau drove around waiting for it to get dark, then stopped on the William Hebb Road just outside town and told Karissa to get out. She tackled the girl, who fell on her back with her hands pinned beneath her.
Karissa said “Mommy, don’t” as her mother knelt on her chest, wrapped the twine around the girl’s neck and pulled until she stopped breathing.
Ms Boudreau dragged her back into the car, put the twine in an empty coffee cup which she threw away at the High Street Tim Hortons, then dumped Karissa’s body over the riverbank where it was found two weeks later.
She threw some of Karissa’s clothes in a garbage can by the Bridgewater swimming pool and went home. She then called the police, family and friends to tell them Karissa was missing.
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