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Today’s Blog Post
Murderers – Pedophiles –
Sickos and Michael Rafferty - Guilty
As I read this morning’s
newspaper and the details of the conviction of Michael Rafferty for the murder
and brutality done to Victoria Stafford I am deeply moved. As the details were revealed
over and over again of the kind of person Michael Rafferty was – it simply
blows my mind.
It isn’t the details of what
he and his girlfriend did to the little girl…
that part was terrible. That part
was almost more than any of us can fathom.
How could any of us understand what they really did.
The part that simply blows my
mind is the number of times that Michael Rafferty was On-Line to dating
services – and the number of connections that he made with ladies that were
looking for a relationship and love.
Over and over again Michael
made not only an internet connection but also a real date. In some case he “went
with” or “lived with” the ladies that he connected to on the On-Line dating
services!!!
Michael was trolling for his
prey.
How do those ladies feel
today?
Now at the same time he was
also downloading Child Porn along with his rudimentary research of his
fantasies. The evidence of what he was
doing just prior to the abduction, rape and murder of Tori Stafford was found
on his laptop computer in his car – when the police searched the vehicle.
Because they didn’t have a
search warrant for the computer the jury never saw that part of the evidence.
I said it simply blew me away…
I am blown away by the women
that were so easily sucked into a relationship by one of the sickest men Canada
has produced.
He came across as a great guy
as the women described him from their Internet Meetings… and also from their
dating of this guy.
My Question…
My question that is forming deep
within me is… how did our society become so duped into thinking that we have to
have a relationship… with anyone that shows us some interest?
And when the person that shows
the interest is showing signs of being perhaps a little off side… the people
involved keep coming back for more. They keep working the Web Sites that offer
an opportunity at “happiness” forever!
In our community I work with
men that are coming from the Federal Prison system. Many are doing okay and adjusting to the life
on the outside of prison after many years inside. I know a number and I see how
they are doing.
In one case it was shocking
when “we” found out what the man we were trying to help was doing. He had come out
of prison after serving time for sexual assaults on children. The case was very sick… and he was a bad
person to say the least.
This man was a manipulator that
tried his best to control others.
Some of the chaplaincy volunteers
around this man that tried to help him. Without
them knowing he began to use a dating service On-Line to find
companionship. And it was not long
before he found someone that he started dating.
He offered a grandfatherly
kind of companionship to the grandmother that he met from the Internet Dating
service.
The first meeting took place
in about September. No one except the
woman knew what was happening. None of the volunteers around the dude knew what
he was doing either. If they had it might have been stopped.
It was later that year in
about December that “we” discovered what he had been up to.
She had fallen for the guy,
felt sorry for the guy, and invited the guy to attend her family’s Thanksgiving
Celebration.
Their relationship developed further
and further until they were doing things that normal couples their age do… walking,
and talking and enjoying each other’s company. They would hold hands on their
walks together. They sat close together as they watched videos together in the evenings.
This relationship was going
somewhere for both of them.
That was the case until one
day the grandmother “Googled” her new friend’s name. And in a heartbeat the Google search produced
a news article written by a reporter that had done their extensive research.
There in black and white the
whole story came out. Every detail of what he did to his own kids and the kids
of ladies that he had been involved with over the years. This was not a onetime
kind of thing – this had happened over and over again – to the same children
and new little children that he had groomed their families to allo him this
closeness.
This man was a horrific pedophile
that she had been dating.
Worse yet as she spoke to me
of her horror… when they had been at her son’s home for Thanksgiving
Celebrations, her grandchildren had been there as well… and they were about the
same age as the victims of his crime.
She was sick to death with the
things that had happened to her. But thank
goodness the relationship broke apart. She was so worried that her Son would
find out and then do something stupid!!
“We” found out about this secret
arrangement that he had concocted and things were done to prevent the same
things happening again – with similar ladies.
But he was back on to the
computer again and on the same On-Line Dating services that he used
before. He was actually back on at the
same time he was being dropped by the other shocked grandmother!!!
And he found another person.
This lady was never married. She lived across the border in the USA. When she
came to see this man and the relationship started “going somewhere”…
authorities notified her of what the man had done in the past… as much as they
could.
BUT she wouldn’t listen and the
relationship developed further and further – until they were living together.
The story is too long and very
detailed – too much for here…!
Today the man is back in
prison for a smaller infraction – a breach of his conditions while living in
the community.
She is still waiting and believing
for their reuniting someday.
He is about 80 years old now
and my guess is he will not likely get out again.
My other question is… what is
wrong with our society? It is far more
than Michael Rafferty doing what he did!
It is bigger than the girl that helped Rafferty get the child to be his “toy”
and then kill the little girl.
I struggle with my questions
this morning.
These guys that I write about
are only the ones that they have caught. The rest are still out there.. still
on the Dating Services and still trolling for the next victims of their future
crimes!
God help us all!
~ Murray Lincoln ~
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