Tori Stafford's father says one of his daughter's killers has been moved from a maximum security prison to a medium security facility.
In an angry facebook post, Rodney Stafford says he learned Monday that Michael Rafferty, who is serving a life sentence had been moved in March.
The discovery comes months after Rodney learned Terri-Lynne McClintic, also serving a life sentence, had been transferred to a healing lodge without being alerted beforehand.
That led to national outrage and a federal review, with McClintic eventually being transferred out of the lodge.
Stafford said it was his understanding Rafferty was still in the maximum security prison in Port-Cartier, QC, until finding out about the transfer Monday from documents he had requested two weeks ago.
"Disgusted, very upset" is how Stafford described his state of mind to NEWSTALK 1010 Monday afternoon. Appearing on The Rush, Stafford admitted he only found out about the seemingly stealth like transfer of Rafferty in a letter sent to him by Corrections officials.
"Stating different day passes for both offenders and one of the lines on my list of stuff was that Mike Rafferty was transferred back in March."
Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale was asked about the transfer in Question Period after news broke.
"I would remind the opposition that the decisions taken with respect to McClintic were in fact taken by the previous government when the classification was moved from maximum security to medium security," Goodale said. "I will examine the facts of this case to ensure that all the proper rules and procedures have been followed and that Canadians are safe."
NEWSTALK 1010 Legal Analyst Ed Prutschi said regardless of the debate over how prisoners should be transferred based on inmate behaviour, the formal procedure that families be alerted in a timely fashion should be consistent.
"Somewhere along the line, people are dropping the ball," he said. "I don't know if that's individual prisons that are making that mistake and not reporting out or whether it's more systemic than that."
"I think it's reached the point where it's time for the federal government to say, you know we've got to review this: why are we doing things the right way in some circumstances and clearly failing in others?"
with files from Lucas Meyer