Victim doing "as well as can be expected": Grandmother
Aug 18, 2008 - 12:27 PM
By Jennifer Stone
PETERBOROUGH -- The grandmother of Stanley Tippett's alleged victim has a message for the man charged with her granddaughter's kidnapping and sexual assault: "Rot in hell."
The woman was in court Monday morning as Mr. Tippett appeared by video from Lindsay jail, where he is currently being held in isolation.
In court, new charges, including some stemming from a police chase in Courtice, were brought against Mr. Tippett.
In addition to the many charges he already faces, including kidnapping, sexual assault and sexual interference, Mr. Tippett is now charged with two counts of failure to stop for a stop sign in Courtice and one count of failure to comply with a court order under which he is not allowed to communicate with an array of people.
As well, the Crown added to that list Monday; now, Mr. Tippett is not allowed to communicate, directly or indirectly, with eight additional people, including his mistress, his mother and his children.
Already on the list is his wife, Natalie, and other potential witnesses.
Meanwhile, Mr. Tippett's alleged 12-year-old victim is healing on the outside, but remains afraid to be alone, said her grandmother, who cannot be identified to protect the identity of the child.
The girl is doing "as well as can be expected," her grandmother said, indicating some of the facial swelling she had after the Aug. 5 incident had begun to recede. "Her eyes are open anyway."
She sustained injuries to much of her body.
"There were no broken bones but she was a mess," the girl's grandmother said outside court Monday.
The family has been instructed not to raise the event in conversation with the girl, but to allow her to talk when she wants to, her grandmother said.
"She doesn't really remember a lot."
In spite of that, the girl still has much healing to do on the inside.
"She just doesn't want to go to sleep," the girl's emotional grandmother said. "She doesn't want to be alone, period."
The family is grateful to the Courtice woman who heard the girl's screams from behind Courtice Secondary School and called police.
"I thank God she was concerned enough to phone and get help," the grandmother said. "If not, we'd be going to a funeral."
Seeing Mr. Tippett in court, even via video, makes the grandmother feel "outraged," she said.
"I see somebody that's really got no guilt whatsoever," she said.
Asked if she had any message for Mr. Tippett, her answer came swiftly and with anger: "Rot in hell," she said.
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