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In 2012, she pleaded guilty to assaulting another inmate at the Grand Valley Institution for Women in Kitchener.

In a letter she wrote to a friend and intercepted by correctional officers, McClintic described stomping, punching and kicking an inmate she had asked to meet for a peer-to-peer mentoring session, noting that if she’d had more space, she would have done more damage.

Some of Tori’s relatives received word several months ago about the transfer from Grand Valley.

But the notice didn’t reach Rodney Stafford until recently because of a change in his contact information, he said.

The notice said McClintic was being transferred from Grand Valley to the healing lodge, Stafford said.

His frustration prompted a call on Facebook Monday for a protest Nov. 2 in Ottawa, and an outpouring of anger on social media. Shock, disgust, disgrace — the words flooded hundreds of comments in reaction to the news of the transfer.

“We will be renting buses which will leave from Tillsonburg and Woodstock, Ontario, and going to the Parliament to peacefully protest the reduced security levels being given to the worst of the worst, including one of Tori Stafford’s killers, Terri-Lynne McClintic,” the Facebook page states.

A video made for the protest had already received 29,000 views in less than 24 hours.

“It just really made me feel sick. If anybody is going to have cement walls and no privileges, it should be (McClintic),” protest organizer Cara Adeline Voisin told The Free Press.

Parents like Stafford feel helpless in the face of the justice system, she said.

“This is something we can do. Our justice system can do better.”

The protesters are renewing calls for legislation restricting rights of people convicting of killing children.

Stephen Harper’s Conservative government had proposed the Life Means Life Act, which would have amended the Criminal Code to ensure the worst killers receive a mandatory life sentence without parole, rather than parole eligibility after 25 years.