Deadly Innocence by Scott Burnside & Alan Cairns

Author:Scott Burnside & Alan Cairns [BURNSIDE, SCOTT]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: TRU002000
ISBN: 9780446550352
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2008-11-14T16:00:00+00:00

Calvin and Patty lived in condo #130 in the McLaughlin Road complex, one of literally thousands of apartment buildings that mark the horizon around greater Metro Toronto.

Karla and Lori spent some of the following day in their aunt and uncle’s apartment complex’s hot tub.

Karel and Dorothy were still in the area the following night, and they called and suggested-that Karla and Lori spend the night in the hotel with them. In the afternoon the girls joined their parents, but later Karla called Patty at work.

“I want to come back to your place,” said the little-girl voice on the other end of the line. “I feel safe at your place. I feel comfortable.”

Patty told her she was welcome to come back, and when she and Calvin returned from work, Karla was already there. Lori said she, too, would like to stay, but that she had to get back to work in St. Catharines, and so she left with her parents.

Despite some initial shyness on Karla’s part, she and Patty began to chat and Karla’s comfort level seemed to rise. At one point Patty told her she felt so bad for Karla after what Paul had done.

“This isn’t the first time he did this to me,” she explained casually. “He did this on a regular basis.”

And thus began discussion of a horrific litany of abuses Karla had suffered at the hands of her husband. With an almost cavalier tone, Karla described her life with Paul.

Her husband seemed to have quite a sensitive sense of smell. He forbade Karla from using traditional cleansing products in their home in Port Dalhousie. He hated the smell, and if he detected—or thought he detected—cleaning smells, he would beat her, Karla said.

Once Karla prepared a dinner for Paul that he thought smelled funny, and he attacked her with the metal stand on which the microwave sat. That time he beat her so viciously that she thought her arm was broken.

“Everything bothered him,” Karla explained. “I tried to please him as much as I could. I tried everything.”

One of the first times Paul hit her was shortly after they started to date and she said something that set him off. He punched and slapped her and reached across and opened the passenger-side door of the car and pushed her out on the street into a mud puddle, Karla said. She was mortified, not so much at the beating, but that she might have to explain her muddy condition if her parents saw her.

Soon, Paul was using handcuffs and punching and kicking her on a regular basis, Karla said.

Patty and Karla were sitting together on the couch. Patty looked at her niece-in-law and shook her head in wonder as Karla continued to relate the abuse she underwent in her monotone, schoolgirlish voice.

Patty was, needless to say, shocked. Why didn’t she leave?

The answer was too complex for Karla to fully explain, at least at this point.

“I loved him too much,” Karla said, her eyes tearing.

Paul had apologized over and over that first time for beating her, promising it would never happen again.

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