In listening to the testimony, I understood that McClintic was saying that Rafferty was in the car sexually assaulting the child, the child was screaming alot, McClintic flash backed to her own childhood sexual abuse, and she then hit the child in the head with the hammer three times. Jealousy? I have no doubt that Rafferty was sitting back, after assaulting the child, doing nothing while McClintic (who thought she was Rafferty's girlfriend) murdered the child. I also have no problem believing that he fatally injured her before she was hit in the had with a hammer. This was a vicious attack on a child by both parties.
Rafferty did not have the same disadvantages in life as McClintic. There's no excuse for him to be involved with a child abduction, sexual assault and murder. He simply wanted to be there and do that and he elicited McClintic, a vulnerable woman with no values, to assist him.
The dynamics of this case are unbelievably horrible. Two depraved 20 something year olds that are more interested in self gratification than anything else lured a child into their clutches, raped and murdered her.
Rafferty was probably grooming children before he engage McClintic in his sick fantasies. After murdering Tori, he complained to her that the girls she brought to him weren't young enough ... he was not going to stop if he wasn't stopped by McClintic.
I just hope her mom can survive.[/QUOTE]
I think that she will, she really looks like a strong woman, but her life will never ever be the same. I worry so much for Tori's family. I was actually worried when Rodney didn't speak to the media this week, wondering if he was having an especially difficult day, if it had become too much for him to bear. I don't know how he does it, and I admire him so much. I admire them all very much.
