"I want the killers dead," says mom of murdered girl

For more than 40 days, Canadians kept an eye on the little town of Woodstock, Ontario, hoping for the safe return of eight-year-old Tori Stafford, who was abducted on her way home from school April 8.
But their hopes were dashed last week when police arrested a man and a woman for her murder.
On Tuesday, police arrested Michael Rafferty, 28, for abduction and first-degree murder. Terri-Lynne McClintic, 18, of Woodstock, was arrested for abduction and accessory to murder after the fact. The pair will be back in court May 28 to answer to the charges.
Days after bringing them in, police began to scour specific areas around the town trying to find the little girl’s body, reportedly with information from McClintic.
Now, reports are starting to come in about the troubled upbringing McClintic had.
Friends say her mom worked as a stripper and her father was nowhere to be found. She was bounced around from town to town all over Canada until she moved back in with her mother in Woodstock earlier this year.
A friend of McClintic, who refused to be named, told the Globe and Mail that the constant moving around was hard on her.
“She was moved around quite a bit, and that really messed with her. Everywhere, everyone screwed her over. The system really failed her.”
Yeah, well boo-hoo.
You don’t have to be a genius to figure out where this is going. Seems some people are out to make McClintic look like the victim in this case.
Whether she’s guilty of the abduction and accessory to murder of an eight-year-old girl is yet to be determined, but one thing you can be pretty sure of is she’s not the victim in this case.
Little Tori Stafford, who will never drive a car, go to college, have a child of her own or even see her ninth birthday, is the victim. Her life was stolen. These two are being blamed. We’re yet to know why, but the truth will come out eventually. It always does.
But in the meantime, here’s hoping the system, which anonymous allies say failed McClintic, doesn’t fail her alleged victim, or her parents or the rest of Canada.
Here’s hoping the Crown does the right thing and doesn’t cut some sort of Karla Homolka-like deal with McClintic, as the rumours already swirling seem to imply.
But whatever the outcome, I know this country’s legal system will never give whoever killed Tori the justice they deserve. There’s been far-too-little justice in Canada since we did away with the gallows in 1976, something I and a whole lot of others would like to see come back.
Like Tori’s mother Tara McDonald said to reporters:
“My daughter’s not coming home. I want the killers dead.”