Evil mother who murdered 12 year-old daughter with twine as girl screamed 'Mommy don't!' demands early prison release
Penny Boudreau, 51, of Nova Scotia, killed her daughter Karissa, 12, in 2008 and left her dead body in a riverbank, then claimed the youngster had been abducted and went on TV to plead for her safe return.
Boudreau was seen on the news crying for her daughter's safe return, telling the public how much she loved the girl, and how desperately she wanted her home safe.
Thirteen days after her mother reported her missing, her body was found on the LaHave riverbank, which is located less than five minutes from Boudreau's apartment.
Police launched an investigation that focused on Boudreau's contentious boyfriend, who Karissa didn't like, after there were reports of yelling and fighting in their apartment.
Months later, police staged a fake crime organization to elicit a confession from the mother-of-one, who admitted she strangled her daughter on a deserted road to people she didn't realize were police.
Now, Boudreau is requesting to be released early from her life sentence at the Nova Institute for Women in Truro, The National Post reported.
The mother was sentenced to life but is eligible for parole after 20 years. However, she can apply for unescorted day parole passes three years before her parole eligibility under the Corrections and Conditional Release Act.
Her first request has to be reviewed at a hearing, which took place on Wednesday. Day release would allow the murderer to participate in community-based activity ahead of her potential release.
It authorized a 60-day unescorted temporary release before it will reevaluate giving her six months of day parole.
She will be required to report any relationships with men and disclose if they have parental responsibility of children under 16. She must also stay away from several members of the victim's family.
She also has to follow a mental health program, as she was diagnosed with depression, anxiety, and has borderline personality traits, according to CBC.
Offenders are required to return to a halfway house nightly. Boudreau toured one in December, The Post said.
Boudreau works as a cleaner for her prison unit and is also in charge of ordering groceries for the women who live with her, The Post reported. She has also been given escorted temporary absences from jail to attend church and bible studies.
However, her request has received some backlash from the public, who haven't forgotten about her heinous crime.
'I think she should serve what she was sentenced to,' Karissa's childhood friend, Courtney Sarty, 29, who now has a child of her own, told The National Post.
'I read that her assessment to reoffend is really low and that she's not probable to commit the same crime. Killing Karissa was unprovoked, so who is to say it wouldn't take the right situation for her to do something again.
'If she is given parole, I don't think she should have access to children whatsoever... I have my own son and my love is deep. He could curse me and put me down to the lowest, and I'm still going to look at him and say: "I love you."'
However, Boudreau still has some in her corner, as an unidentified pastor at the church she attends said the organization is ready to continue supporting her while she works toward release.
Boudreau has been described as having a low risk for day parole as she is no longer in an unhealthy relationship and has spoken about how she has 'work[ed] through the many emotions that come with accepting the offense you committed, daily feelings of guilt and shame,' The Post reported.
When the time took place, Karissa had recently moved in with her mother and her boyfriend and the girl's diary revealed how she resented living with him.
On January 27, 2008, Boudreau claimed she took Karissa on a drive to have a one-on-one chat with her. After a storm rolled in, she stopped at a grocery store to pick up a few items and left Karissa in the car. When she returned, the girl was gone.
The mother would report her daughter missing two hours later, despite knowing that her story was false and her daughter's body was lying in a riverbank.
While she strangled her daughter, the girl yelled at out: "Mommy don't,' as she knelt on her chest and strangled her with twine, the mother admitted.
She then placed her daughter's body in the car and drove it to the riverbank, where she pulled down the girl's pants to make it look like she was assaulted, then rolled it down the bank.
Judge Margaret Stewart told Boudreau at the time that she hoped those words would 'haunt you the rest of your natural life.'
Prosecutors said Bourdeau murdered her daughter due to fear of abandonment from her boyfriend, whom she no longer talks to.
Boudreau was charged with first-degree murder, but pleaded guilty to second-degree.
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