serial rapist Paul Bernardo was quietly moved to a medium-security prison in Quebec on Monday, the lawyer for his victims’ families says.Bernardo has been serving a life sentence for kidnapping, torturing and killing Kristen French, 15, and Leslie Mahaffy, 14, in the early 1990s near St.
Catharines, Ont.“He’s been transferred from Millhaven to a medium penitentiary in Quebec,” Tim Danson, lawyer for the French and Mahaffy families, told Global News on Friday.“For the (victims’) families, it’s very, very distressing.”Danson and a source with knowledge of the transfer both said Bernardo was moved from maximum-security prison Millhaven Institution, located approximately 20 kilometres west of Kingston, Ont., to La Macaza in Quebec.The source, who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly, said La Macaza, in Quebec’s Laurentians, is a prison for sexual offenders and those at risk of being harmed by other inmates, and told Global News they believed the move was done “secretly.”A spokesperson for Correctional Service Canada would not comment “on the specifics of an offender’s case,” but stressed that “this offender” is serving an indeterminate sentence, meaning there is no end date to the sentence.“Public Safety is the paramount consideration in every decision made by the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC),” an emailed statement reads.“We assure the public that this offender continues to be incarcerated in a secure institution, with appropriate security perimeters and controls in place.”Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said in a statement Friday evening called the transfer “shocking and incomprehensible” and vowed to address the decision-making process with CSC Commissioner Anne Kelly.“Our thoughts are with the families of.