Murder of Leslie Mahaffy

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Leslie Erin Mahaffy (July 5, 1976 – June 16, 1991) was a 14-year-old Canadian girl and the second murder victim of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka after the two sociopaths had raped and murdered Homolka's child sister six months prior. At the time of her death, she was a resident of Burlington, Ontario, and a Grade 9 student at M.M. Robinson High School. She was born in Hamilton, Ontario. Bernardo was convicted of two first-degree murders and two aggravated sexual assaults, and sentenced to life in prison. Homolka was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 12 years imprisonment. Mahaffy's kidnapping was one in a series of disappearances of Ontario schoolgirls in the early 1990s which also included Kristen French, who was kidnapped and murdered by Bernardo and Homolka ten months after Mahaffy's murder. Six months before Mahaffy's murder, Homolka's teenage sister Tammy had aspirated her own vomit after having been drugged and raped by the couple. The disappearances, arrests, and convictions...

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