Homolka update.

Regardez hors de Montréal ! La voici qui vient.

(Appy-polly-loggies for any errors of mine in the most beautiful of Romance languages. My French (Freedom Speak?) is almost as rusty as my Latin.

Canada's most notorious ex-inmate took to the airwaves to try to assure the public she was not a danger to the children, hours after she left prison following a 12-year sentence in the rape and murder of three teenage girls.

Karla Homolka, 35, who was secretly spirited from the Quebec prison on Monday because of fears about her security, said in the broadcast she doesn't "want to be hunted down," reflecting popular anger at her release.

Homolka received the relatively light 12-year sentence in return for her testimony against her ex-husband, Paul Bernardo. Homolka told the court and psychiatrists she was a battered wife who took part in the rapes and murders to protect herself and her family.

Months after prosecutors made the deal, however, Bernardo's attorneys handed over homemade videotapes by the couple that indicated Homolka was a willing participant, drawing the ire of Canadians.

"I don't want people to think I am dangerous and I'm going to do something to their children,'"' Homolka told RDI, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's French language news network, after her release.

Speaking in slightly accented French, Homolka said in the interview she's "unable to forgive myself."

"I think of what I've done and then often I think I don't deserve to be happy because of this," said Homolka, who appeared drawn and tired.

Wow. She does not think she deserves to be happy. What a humanitarian she's become in just twelve short years.

Homolka said she went directly from the prison to the television studio. She said she decided to give the interview after consulting with her lawyer. She plans on living in Quebec and acknowledged those in the French speaking province know less about the horrific details of her case.
"It's certain that the mood in Quebec is not like the mood in Ontario. I have a support network here," Homolka said.

Her lawyers and father have said for months that she intended to resettle in Montreal, having learned French during her 12 years in a Quebec prison.
Michele Pilon-Santilli, a spokeswoman for the correctional service, would not say where Homolka would be living. The former veterinarian assistant has changed her name to Karla Teale. (Thanks to AP via Yahoo! News.)