Murphy, Rex (May 21, 2009). "Canada Mourns Tori". The National. Archived from the original (WMV) on 2009-05-28 . Retrieved 2016-07-26. They moved every couple of years and McClintic went to many different schools, where she was bullied for being a stripper's daughter and her attendance was a problem. In his words: "It's not about Rafferty, it's about the little girl who lost her life," Stafford said outside court on the first day of Rafferty's trial. Cherish Francis also said she was worried that the Ontario child killer could derail the work the — already misunderstood — healing lodges do. Age 21, serving a life sentence for first-degree murder after pleading guilty two years ago in Tori's death

What would happen if police figure out it’s you on the surveillance video leading Tori away from school, McClintic said Rafferty asked her on a visit to the detention centre. Conversely, much of McClintic’s young life is officially documented, as authorities were involved from the get-go. Her first criminal charge came at age 15, when she flew into a rage after being asked to move out of her mother’s boyfriend’s house — the same boyfriend who had threatened two years prior to slit her throat — and punched her mother in the face so hard that she fractured Carol McClintic’s cheekbone. HandoutWhen Rafferty's cellphone records showed a call from April 8, 2009, near Mount Forest, Ont., Smyth went for a drive in the area. Acting on a hunch based on what McClintic had described, he turned down a rural laneway; on July 19, he discovered Tori's remains. The letter to her lawyer represented “what I wanted to be true, the truth that I wanted to believe,” she added. “That’s what I told myself was true. So that was the recollection of everything that had happened and everything was true up to the point of the murder.” When he and Terri-Lynne were both under Carol’s roof, they lived in what he described as “an incredibly harmful environment.” News of McClintic's transfer comes after fraught political debate. The Conservatives tabled a motion demanding the Liberal government condemn the decision to transfer her to a healing lodge, and to overturn it.

McClintic was scheduled to make an appearance in court on April 30, 2010, but a publication ban was imposed by the judge on the events of the day. [16] The publication 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 with no chance of parole for 25 years and was held at the Grand Valley Institution for Women in Kitchener, Ontario. [18] That a family mourning a little girl and the unimaginable suffering of her last hours would be outraged by this is only too obvious. But people across the country with no personal connection to the crime or its small victim are also profoundly incensed in a way that seems genuine and meaningful. Can anyone recommend a real hard ass lawyer with heart willing to fight for the people of Canada and the Stafford family?” he wrote. July 19, 2009: Acting on information from Rafferty's cellphone records, a police officer drives around the Mount Forest area and recognizes an area from McClintic's sketch. He later stumbles upon Tori's decomposing remains in a secluded field. McClintic spent days under the glare of the national media spotlight when she testified at her former boyfriend's murder trial. During those proceedings, the court heard about her troubled childhood, one where she was abandoned by her birth mother, who gave her to a fellow stripper named Carol McClintic.Terri-Lynne McClintic and Michael Rafferty have both been convicted of first-degree murder in the death of Victoria Stafford. (Canadian Press) During another visit, the couple talked about Terri-Lynne McClintic running away from the detention centre, court heard.