WOODSTOCK, Ont. - A woman charged in the death of eight-year-old Victoria Stafford was scheduled to appear in court Friday but a temporary publication ban prevents any further information from being released.

Victoria, known as Tori, went missing on April 8, 2009 outside her Woodstock, Ont., school.

Terri-Lynne McClintic, 19, and Michael Rafferty, 29, were arrested in May 2009 and charged with first-degree murder and kidnapping.

McClintic was scheduled to appear in court Friday in Woodstock but the temporary publication ban prohibits the media from providing any further information until further order of the court.

Last week the court set June 21 as the date for Rafferty's preliminary hearing to begin.

The hearing, which allows a judge to weigh the evidence and decide if the case can move forward to trial, is expected to last about four weeks.

When Tori, clad in her Hannah Montana jacket, failed to return home from school it set off a desperate search that touched hearts countrywide.

Her remains were not found until more than three months later, some 100 kilometres away in a field north of Guelph.

The abduction unleashed a torrent of criticism against Oxford Community Police for not issuing an alert after the Grade 3 student disappeared.

That spurred a review of Ontario's Amber Alert guidelines, giving police greater leeway for sounding the alarm in the critical first few hours of a child's disappearance.

Previously, police had to confirm a child had been abducted, believe the child to be in danger of serious harm or death, and have descriptive information about the child and a suspect or vehicle.

Now, police only have to believe, and not confirm, that a child has been abducted and fear that they are in any type of danger. Authorities can also issue an alert without descriptive information about an abductor or vehicle.

Tori's father, Rodney Stafford, and her 12-year-old brother Daryn are preparing for a fundraising bike ride starting in June that will take them from Edmonton to Woodstock. Last year Stafford rode from Woodstock to Edmonton to raise money for Child Find Ontario in his daughter's memory.

Stafford and his son are calling this journey Kilometres for Kids 2: A Sibling's Story.