Bernardo's prison transfer 'slap in the face' for victims' families: Tori Stafford's father says
CTV
The father of Tori Stafford, an Ontario girl who was murdered in 2009, says the latest decision to transfer convicted killer Paul Bernardo to a minimum security prison is a 'slap in the face' to all murder victims' families.
Rodney Stafford, the father of Tori Stafford, an Ontario girl who was kidnapped, murdered and raped in 2009, says Bernardo's transfer has re-vcitimized him and his family.
"It's just another slap in the face for more Canadian families," Stafford told CTV News.
Similar to Bernardo, Tori's killers, Michael Rafferty and Terri-Lynne Mcclintic, were transferred to a lower security prison after serving several years of a life sentence for first degree murder. In 2018, McClintic was briefly transferred to an Indigenous healing lodge in Saskatchewan. However, two months later she was sent to a multi-level federal women's prison following outcry over the transfer.
Rafferty was initially serving his sentence in a maximum security prison in Port-Cartier, Que., but in 2018 he was switched to a medium security prison in La Macaza; the same facility Paul Bernardo was recently sent to.
