What the jury didn't hear: revealing articles about the accused

[matou]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...deo-found-on-raffertys-laptop/article2429175/

long Globe and Mail article

Hold it! Is this the NEW blackberry phone he just picked up at the Bell Center in Masonville and he has CHILD PORN on it already???

The Crown told the court in pre-trial motions that child-porn material was also discovered on the laptop, on an iPod Touch device and on a BlackBerry – all three items were found in Mr. Rafferty’s Honda Civic

 

[nursebeeme]

I am sure it did Matou geez that is so sick.. he is seriously a sick human being... he even had it on his ipod touch..

 

[matou]

As well, police found in Mr. Rafferty’s bedroom a Hitachi hard drive showing that in 2005 to 2006 someone had viewed numerous movies, obtained through the file-sharing network LimeWire, depicting children as young as five being violently abused.

Holy moley, this goes back far and likely it goes back even farther that that. So what about this guy's childhood? What's the deal? JMO

 

[matou]

Put simply, a computer or personal electronic device can no longer be viewed as a “thing,” Mr. Justice Thomas Heeney ruled, in rejecting the Crown’s bid to have the laptop’s contents admitted as evidence.
Rather, he said, recent case law holds that because a computer can contain huge amounts of personal information – e-mails, bank records, memos, documents, photos – it should be regarded as a “place,” akin to a house.
In this instance, the warrants targeted two homes and two cars and all were in order as far as they went, the judge found. Nor was anything amiss about how the searches were conducted – up to the point where the various computers were seized.
At that stage, a secondary warrant was needed and, if requested, would likely have been granted, Judge Heeney wrote.
Yet none was obtained, despite the omission being flagged both by the Justice of the Peace who issued the warrants and later by an Ontario Provincial Police forensic detective.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...deo-found-on-raffertys-laptop/article2429175/

 

[matou]

Moreover, the court ruling that a computer is a “place” rather than a “thing” was not made until July, 2009 – several weeks after the Tori Stafford warrants were served.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...und-on-raffertys-laptop/article2429175/page2/

 

[brighidin]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/05/10/tori-stafford-rafferty-jury.html

"Defence lawyer Derstine told the judge he didn't want to call for a mistrial but information about Spitzig's escort business was not supposed to come out in court."

The more I read, the more I think the judge was out of line in a number of his rulings. A lot of these things are about WAY more than his "character" they speak directly to intent.

Also, why wasn't his interrogation part of the trial? TLM's interviews were, and she wasn't even on trial.
"Although jurors heard Rafferty's first interview with police, a 30-minute conversation on May 15, 2009, they were unaware investigators interrogated him for nearly four hours following his arrest several days later."

 

[littlebirdie]

As well, police found in Mr. Rafferty’s bedroom a Hitachi hard drive showing that in 2005 to 2006 someone had viewed numerous movies, obtained through the file-sharing network LimeWire, depicting children as young as five being violently abused.

Holy moley, this goes back far and likely it goes back even farther that that. So what about this guy's childhood? What's the deal? JMO

matou, I was just thinking the exact same thing. MR's childhood and life leading up to this is still very much a mystery. Will be quite revealing when all of the details come out. Also, just so beyond scary to me that he has gone under the radar all of these years. Makes me feel really creeped out. I think of all of the women he has been with over the years, their children and so forth....well, can't really bring myself to consider what went on, at this point. I am having a hard time believing that Victoria was the first child victim of sexual assault. JMO I am not going to sleep well tonight.

 

[matou]

Rafferty jury didn't hear how bad it really was

But among his episodes of Young and Restless, Rafferty left a computer record of frighteningly unhealthy appetites the jury would never know. He liked to visit ogrish.com, a web site with gruesome photos of terrible injuries and death. He Google searched "children for sale"; and looked for images of "naked girl hanged" and "girl beat up."
Between Jan. 25 and April 7, 2009, he was doing Internet searches on "underage rape" and "real underage rape pictures" as well as "necrophilia videos" and "epileptic naked attack" and "real gang rape."
Using the file-sharing LimeWire software, he had downloaded nine movies depicting child pornography. One was downloaded just a month before the abduction. It was called, "rape lolita real snuff."
"Based upon the totality of the findings," wrote Det-Sgt K.J. Falconer of the OPP Technological Crime Unit, "the writer is of the opinion that Rafferty had an interest in child pornography and utilized the exhibits seized from him to search and download multimedia depicting child pornography to those devices ... over a time span of four and a half years,"

http://m.torontosun.com/2012/05/10/rafferty-jury-didnt-hear-the-worst-of-it

 

[matou]

Two weeks after the abduction and murder of Tori, Rafferty also downloaded the movie Karla — described as "the incredible true story of Canada's most lethal couple, Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka and the shocking "Schoolgirl Murders".
Coincidence? Or did he see himself and Terri-Lynne McClintic as their successors?

Two weeks AFTER??? OMG! Bonnie and Clyde and Paul and Karla all over again. PUKE. JMO

http://m.torontosun.com/2012/05/10/rafferty-jury-didnt-hear-the-worst-of-it

 

[brighidin]

From the Star:

Heeney ruled “it would be hard for the jury to resist the temptation to conclude that the applicant is a sexual deviant who is, therefore, more likely to have committed the rape and murder of the victim, despite instructions to the contrary.”
http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/a...tafford-trial-evidence-the-jurors-never-heard

This is ridiculous. I am so mad that i can't think straight and all names escape me, but several years ago a little girl in Toronto was kidnapped raped and murdered after she walked her friend home. It was found that the who did that had been watching child porn, was excited, and went outside to grab the first girl he saw.

I'm sure i've read studies that indicate viewing hard core pornography is correlated to sexual assaults, too.

So how the <modsnip> is this judge claiming that all this vile, illegal pedophilic activity is simply evidence of MR's character. He doesn't want the jury to think badly of MR? GMAB.

 

[matou]

From the Star:

Heeney ruled &#8220;it would be hard for the jury to resist the temptation to conclude that the applicant is a sexual deviant who is, therefore, more likely to have committed the rape and murder of the victim, despite instructions to the contrary.&#8221;
http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/a...tafford-trial-evidence-the-jurors-never-heard

This is ridiculous. I am so mad that i can't think straight and all names escape me, but several years ago a little girl in Toronto was kidnapped raped and murdered after she walked her friend home. It was found that the who did that had been watching child porn, was excited, and went outside to grab the first girl he saw.

I'm sure i've read studies that indicate viewing hard core pornography is correlated to sexual assaults, too.

So how the <modsnip> is this judge claiming that all this vile, illegal pedophilic activity is simply evidence of MR's character. He doesn't want the jury to think badly of MR? GMAB.

Yes, that was Holly Jones who was grabbed by Michael Briere who then raped, murdered and mutilated her. He had been watching child porn.

 

[dar107]

From the Star:

Heeney ruled “it would be hard for the jury to resist the temptation to conclude that the applicant is a sexual deviant who is, therefore, more likely to have committed the rape and murder of the victim, despite instructions to the contrary.”
http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/a...tafford-trial-evidence-the-jurors-never-heard

This is ridiculous. I am so mad that i can't think straight and all names escape me, but several years ago a little girl in Toronto was kidnapped raped and murdered after she walked her friend home. It was found that the who did that had been watching child porn, was excited, and went outside to grab the first girl he saw.

I'm sure i've read studies that indicate viewing hard core pornography is correlated to sexual assaults, too.

So how the <modsnip> is this judge claiming that all this vile, illegal pedophilic activity is simply evidence of MR's character. He doesn't want the jury to think badly of MR? GMAB.

Yes that was Holly Jones, and the same thing in the Somer Thompson case, her murderer had child porn on his computer and he videoed his own neice.

 

[brighidin]

Yes, that was Holly Jones who was grabbed by Michael Briere who then raped, murdered and mutilated her. He had been watching child porn.

Thank you. I try not to forget these poor sweeties names, but I was just drawing a blank.

Thank you as well, dar107.

 

[matou]

Holy ****

On March 13, 2009, Rafferty googled “children for sale” and “sale of babys,” while on April 23, 2009 — two weeks after Tori’s disappearance — Rafferty googled the movie Karla, which was based on the case of serial killers Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka.
In March 2006, Rafferty also used his MySpace account to send multiple emails indicating that he wanted to marry an Asian woman. He wrote: “Hey, I’m Mike from Canada, I’m looking for a girl who really wants to move to Canada but needs to get married to do so ... I have a good job and a place of my own ... I am willing to marry someone just so they can move here and obtain a green card.”
At the end of the email, he wrote, “all for a price of course.”
Investigators say he received many replies.

I had heard about the marrying girls thing before. But buying babies???? Buying children???? OMG......

http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/a...tafford-trial-evidence-the-jurors-never-heard

 

[matou]

Starting to watch a bit of the MR interview with Det Smyth and he is gonna throw up because of detoxing from his multiple-oxy-pill-a-day diet, in combination with the stress, IMO. I think he is a total . How dare he??????

 

[SmoothOperator]

I am just speechless. .surprised? Not at all. .speechless at the judges err. What's the deal with child porn charges? How does Canada go about those type charges that are clearly present here.. many years worth..

 

[matou]

Interesting that Det. Smyth called Rafferty a psychopath. I guess it is a diagnosis based on his behavioural science background. Here is an overview of psychopathy. I believe his diagnosis is accurate.

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy"]Psychopathy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

 

[matou]

A reporter needs to find out about his juvenile past. I`m SURE he had issues then. JMO

 

[matou]

Michael Rafferty: Conman. Womanizer. Murderer

Four months after Wilstra and Rafferty broke up, he used the file-sharing service LimeWire to download child porn.
The next couple of years were a haze of brazen untruths and inconceivable womanizing.
Even a herpes scare did not deter him.

http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/article/1177612--michael-rafferty-conman-womanizer-murderer

 

[matou]

On March 13, 2009, he googled &#8220;children for sale&#8221; and &#8220;sale of babys.&#8221; On March 30, he had a weird online conversation with a woman only identified as Simone where he asked if Simone&#8217;s daughter, who was still in a crib, would &#8220;snuggle up with us tonight.&#8221;
Another time, Rafferty asked Simone if she would give him her &#8220;first-born.&#8221;

http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/article/1177612--michael-rafferty-conman-womanizer-murderer