trial thread: 3/13/2012

[matou]

@CityCynthia
#rafferty - McClintic says birth mother gave her to Carole McClintic to be raised, the two women were friends, dancers together.

 

[matou]

@RaffertyLFP
McClinitic says she moved around frequently - has lost touch with birth mother and siblings

 

[matou]

@AM980_Court
Her adoptive mother was on disability, worked in construction.

 

[matou]

‏ @CityCynthia
#rafferty - McClintic sounds nervous, pauses, loses train of thought, says sorry. Asks for question to be repeated.

 

[margaret_diane]

Cynthia Mulligan
Tara did not sit through McClintic's confession, this will be first time she will hear testimony about how Tori died

I thought we read that about the time of TLM's guilty plea, the family was in a hotel somewhere all together, and heard the details together before they came out in court? Was Tara maybe not there for that?

 

[matou]

@AM980_Court
McClintic is becoming emotional on the stand. Describing her childhood and all the moving she and her mother did.

 

[matou]

@CityCynthia
#rafferty - McClintic talking about how she moved to many places as a child, went to many schools, was up and down in school.

 

[matou]

@RaffertyLFP
McClinitc says her family moved from Woodstock when she was 18 months old moved around including Guelph and northern Ontario

 

[matou]

@RaffertyLFP
McClinitic says school attendance not good she "bounced around a lot" only full-time until Grade 8

 

[matou]

@CityCynthia
#rafferty - attendance at school up and down,, bounced around a lot. grades up and down. Has grade 8, some 9 and 10 credits.

 

[matou]

‏ @RaffertyLFP
Says she got some high school credits in youth detention centres. Children's Aid got involved in her situation when she was 8

 

[Kamille]

I thought we read that about the time of TLM's guilty plea, the family was in a hotel somewhere all together, and heard the details together before they came out in court? Was Tara maybe not there for that?

I think she was in the hotel room for the details but didn't go to the court the day that TLM was actually convicted and sentenced?

MOO

 

[matou]

@CityCynthia
#rafferty - children's aid was involved as she was growing up, when she was 8 or 9. Her mom needed help, relief.

@CityCynthia
#rafferty - CAS had been called before that but had been disregarded. McClintic was a temporary ward of Children's Aid at one point.

 

[matou]

@CityCynthia
#rafferty - McClintic's mom on disability because of back and mental health issues. Medication and drinking major problem for her.

 

[matou]

@CityCynthia
#rafferty - McClintic says the only positive influence in her life was her god mother

 

[matou]

@RaffertyLFP
Only positive influence in her life was her godmother Darlene

 

[matou]

@RaffertyLFP
McClintic says she doesn't know much about birth father - heard different stories

 

[matou]

@CityCynthia
#rafferty, McClintic says Carole moved back to Woodstock when she was 17, she moved back to to take care of her

 

[matou]

@AdrianMorrow
Says she had two positive influences in her life: godmother Darlene and a man named Joel who she and mum lived with in Guelph when she was 7

 

[matou]

@CityCynthia
#rafferty, McClintic had just got out of custody, had been in custody 14 months. Got high day to day, she was on welfare, mom on disability