The unbearably tragic story of little Tori Stafford

If there was any proper justice in this world the little girl's two murderers would be hanged until their necks broke with a loud snap for all to hear and her mother who was addicted to drugs and negligent in her duties towards this beautiful little girl, would be locked up for life.

SunTV's Charles Adler is absolutely right ... Canada should start a debate to make a decision about re-introducing the death penalty for creatures like McClintic and Rafferty who are clearly not fit to live amongst human beings.



Don't read Christie Blatchford's article below if you don't want to weep. What happened to little Tori should never happen again to another little child and we should all hope that this case will start the ball rolling for the introduction of the death penalty in Canada. The jury sitting in judgement in the case of Tori's murder are handicapped because they do have have the option to make the right choice ... the choice of death by lethal injection or the electric chair. Anything less than that is injustice to the victim.

It was nothing less than the merciless destruction of a trusting child that convicted killer Terri-Lynne McClintic has described for an Ontario Superior Court judge and jury here.

The child was eight-year-old Victoria (Tori) Stafford, dead at the hands of McClintic and, allegedly, her former boyfriend Michael Rafferty.

Where McClintic almost two years ago unusually pleaded guilty to and was convicted of first-degree murder in the little girl’s April 8, 2009 death, the 31-year-old Mr. Rafferty is pleading not guilty.

McClintic, now 21, took the stand Tuesday in what is expected to be a lengthy stint as the prosecution’s star witness.

Her testimony marks the first time the public has heard any details of how Tori was abducted and killed.



By her own account — delivered in a nasal twang, replete with the use of “like” that is her generation’s trademark and interrupted by long pauses, false starts and instances where her mouth would move but produce no words — McClintic was the one of the pair that the little girl repeatedly turned to for help and comfort in the last hours of her life.

McClintic let her down every single time. The nadir of her betrayal, if such things can be measured, may have come when, according to McClintic, Mr. Rafferty was in the process of sexually assaulting Tori in the back seat of his car............