LONDON, Ont - The trial of a man accused of killing eight-year-old Victoria Stafford is hearing that he got a lot of his money from a girlfriend working as an escort.
Court is hearing that Michael Rafferty was dating a woman named Charity Spitzig from April 2008 to his arrest in May 2009, and that she thought they were exclusive.
The trial has heard from about a dozen other women he was seeing around that time, most of them having met him on the dating website Plenty of Fish, which is also where he met Spitzig.
The 26-year-old mother of four says during their relationship she and Rafferty discussed how to improve their finances and they decided she would get into the escort business and would give him all of those earnings.
Court saw banking records that showed that between December 2008 and May 2009 Spitzig gave Rafferty $16,835.
Rafferty is accused of killing Tori on April 8, 2009, and he has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder, sexual assault causing bodily harm and kidnapping.
