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“She could go to the end of the earth and still have someone recognize her,” the mother of slain schoolgirl Kristen French once said of Karla Homolka, the woman implicated in her daughter’s murder.

Once again this week, those words rang true.

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News that Homolka, now 45 and living under a different name, resided in Châteauguay and had children attending a local primary school sent shock waves through the South Shore community of 47,000 and social media on Tuesday.

The revelation alarmed and upset parents at Centennial Park Elementary School.

“The fact her children are here … as a parent, I’m concerned,” said machinist Don Selkirk, 46, who has three children at the school.

“I feel horrible for her children — I can’t believe she actually had kids — but they should not be here, or feel welcome. If she was out of the country, why come back? A child should not have to pay for a parent’s crime, but that’s unfortunately what will happen.”