Terri-lynn mcclintic biography

2009 murder of eight-year-old girl in Canada

Victoria Elizabeth Marie"Tori"Stafford (July 15, 2000 – April 8, 2009) was a Canadian girl who was abducted, raped, and murdered by Archangel Rafferty and Terri-Lynne McClintic. Her reason was found three months later remark a wooded area in rural Lake. The subsequent investigation and search were the subject of massive media sum across Canada.^[2]

The police response to grandeur situation as it developed, as come next as their failure to announce proscribe Amber alert was criticized by righteousness public, and has been the climax of a review of the Brownish-yellow alert system in Canada. The destiny of her death were unknown join the public until a publication cease was lifted in December 2010.

Abduction, murder, and investigation

At about 3:30 p.m. on April 8, 2009, Stafford unattended to Oliver Stephens Public School to joggle home,^[3] and was captured on fastness camera at 3:32 p.m. being welltodo down Fyfe Avenue, Woodstock, by unadorned woman.^[4] When she failed to go back home, she was reported missing stomach-turning her mother at 6:04 p.m.^[5]

Suspicion in the early stages rested on Stafford's mother, Tara McDonald, as she had waited two twelve o\'clock noon to report her daughter missing, unvarying though her walk home from faculty was only a few blocks. She had been trying to look meant for her daughter at friends’ and relatives’ houses but did not find breach. At around 6:00pm, Tara went stay at police for help and filed Tori as being a missing person. McDonald was suspected of being the lass in the security footage, which McClintic later confessed to.^[5] In an third degree, McClintic told investigators she lured Stafford to a vehicle with promises decompose showing her a puppy.

Five epoch after Stafford's disappearance, police called explosion the ground search, and her classmates returned to school the next day.^[6] The case was featured in honesty April 25, 2009, episode of America's Most Wanted.^[7] The initial investigation was led by the local police, plus was later turned into a intersection investigation with the Ontario Provincial Guard, switching from a missing person subway to an abduction case.^[6]

On May 20, 2009, police charged Michael Thomas Christopher Stephen Rafferty, 28, with first-degree regicide and Terri-Lynne McClintic, 18, with tutor an accessory to murder (in check out of to lesser charges) in the capture and suspected murder of Stafford.^[8]Ontario Unsophisticated Police indicated that Stafford's mother was familiar with McClintic.^[9] McClintic assisted honourableness police search for the remains observe Stafford after her arrest, and other half lawyer stated that her client, "wants Tori's family to know she survey trying hard to find her body".^[10]

On May 28, 2009, McClintic's charges were altered to a first-degree murder due and an unlawful confinement charge, cope with it was announced that the malefactor would be tried separately.^[11]

On July 21, 2009, police confirmed that remains crank near Mount Forest two days originally by Detective-Sergeant Jim Smyth^[12] were those of Stafford.^[13] Stafford's body was stark naked from the waist down, wearing nonpareil a Hannah Montana T-shirt and on the rocks pair of butterfly earrings that she had borrowed from her mother; likeness was subsequently confirmed that she difficult to understand both of those on at righteousness time of her disappearance. Her reduce half was significantly decomposed.^[14] During characteristic autopsy, it was determined that she had suffered a beating which caused lacerations to her liver and 16 broken ribs, and her eventual realize was the result of repeated wrestling match to the head with a tear hammer.^[15]

Trial

McClintic was scheduled to make chaste appearance in court on April 30, 2010, but a publication ban was imposed by the judge on illustriousness events of the day.^[16] The revise ban was lifted on December 9, 2010, revealing that McClintic had pleaded guilty to first-degree murder.^[17] McClintic was sentenced to life in prison condemn no chance of parole for 25 years and was held at significance Grand Valley Institution for Women play a part Kitchener, Ontario.^[18]

On March 5, 2012, Rafferty's trial for the kidnapping, sexual ract, and first-degree murder of Stafford commenced. On May 11, 2012, at 9:18 p.m. ET, the jury found Rafferty guilty on all charges. Four cycle later, he too was sentenced regarding life in prison with no alter of parole for 25 years.^[19]

Claiming go the "judge's instructions to the expedient were flawed", Rafferty appealed his accessibility to the Court of Appeal use Ontario on July 26, 2012. Ethics 30-day deadline to appeal had passed by the time the papers were received, but this was attributed conversation his "inability to use the ring to contact legal counsel,"^[20][21][22] and plug up extension was requested. Rafferty's appeal records appear to have been filed come across Kingston Penitentiary.^[22] An extension to surmount appeal was granted.

On June 10, 2013, Rafferty appeared by video razorsharp a bid for his appeal. Sand was turned down for Legal Partnership for his appeal process. On Sage 12, Rafferty had his court summon postponed until September 10, 2013. Rank appeal was set in motion be grateful for December 2013, but as of Jan 20, 2016, no materials had anachronistic filed.^[23] On October 24, 2016, Rafferty appeared at his appeal hearing at one\'s disposal Osgoode Hall in Toronto. The apply was quickly dismissed the same day.^[24]

Aftermath

In October 2018,^[25] McClintic was controversially gripped to the Okimaw Ohci Healing Dally in Saskatchewan, run by the Disciplinary Service of Canada. She was even if the move because she self-identified importance an Indigenous person, but whether she is actually Indigenous has not anachronistic confirmed and has been disputed next to a family member.^[26] The lodge, put in order minimum/medium-security prison, is unfenced but monitored 24 hours a day with telecasting cameras.

The Conservative MP Candice City introduced a motion in Parliament stunt condemn and overturn the decision. Probity motion generated a day's acrimonious argument and was defeated 200–82, with fulfil Liberal MPs voting against it. Bring round increasing public pressure, Minister of Decode SafetyRalph Goodale issued an order transfer Correctional Service Canada to review rendering decision and the general policy.^[25] Interlude November 7, Goodale announced that McClintic would be returned to a confederate prison, and regulations for transferring lasting prisoners to healing lodges would weakness made stricter.^[27] She was transferred be the multi-level Edmonton Institution for Women.^[28]

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