A feature on Bonnie Schlef's remarkable life was first published in print in 2010. Here, Stuff republishes it on the day a coroner sits to consider how this Christchurch battler died following a surgical error.
People judge her. Well you would. The morphine addiction, the stolen cheques, the prison time, the family gang connections. So how did the life of a sweet little convent girl go so off the rails? I am talking to 52-year-old Bonnie Schlef in the foyer of Christchurch District Court. She is there to support her son - a son charged with leaving her horrifically battered, with a cracked neck, in an attack last August. The second such attack, she says.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/67457974/Convent-girl-Bonnie-Schlefs-life-of-violence-sex-abuse-heroin-and-prison-escape
People judge her. Well you would. The morphine addiction, the stolen cheques, the prison time, the family gang connections. So how did the life of a sweet little convent girl go so off the rails? I am talking to 52-year-old Bonnie Schlef in the foyer of Christchurch District Court. She is there to support her son - a son charged with leaving her horrifically battered, with a cracked neck, in an attack last August. The second such attack, she says.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/67457974/Convent-girl-Bonnie-Schlefs-life-of-violence-sex-abuse-heroin-and-prison-escape
