WOODSTOCK, Ont - The Oxford Community Police Service is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the abduction of Victoria Stafford.
Anyone with information regarding the eight-year-old girl's abduction should contact Oxford Community Police, the force said in a release Tuesday night.
The girl, known as Tori to family and friends, left school on April 8 and was seen on surveillance video walking with a woman.
The woman is described as in her 20s, wearing a white or light coloured coat and blue jeans.
The dark-haired woman is approximately 5 feet to 5-foot-3 tall with a medium build.
Door-to-door canvassing within this city some 140 kilometres west of Toronto is continuing, police said.
A provincial police team is still searching at the Oxford County landfill and a search of vacant buildings and properties within Woodstock is being conducted, police said.
Earlier Tuesday, the missing girl's mother recounted her mysterious journey in a limousine to a Toronto hotel room where a stranger offered to aid with any ransom demands.
Tara McDonald said she assumed when the limo arrived at her home that she would be meeting with a psychic from the Montel Williams daytime talk show.
Instead, McDonald met with someone who warned her to consider offering a ransom for her daughter's return because when they had been in a similar circumstance police advised against paying and their child was killed.
She said the person, who she did not identify, happened to have a stopover in Toronto and saw a story about Victoria's case on TV.
While McDonald acknowledged that the meeting might sound strange she said many weird things have happened since her daughter disappeared.
