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PETERBOROUGH, Ont. Stanley Tippett's "far-fetched" tale of offering safe passage to a drunken 12-year-old girl, only to be carjacked by two armed men, failed Wednesday to sway a judge who convicted the married father of five of kidnapping and sexually assaulting his young victim.
Tippett was arrested Aug. 6, 2008, just hours after the girl was found half-naked behind a school in Courtice, Ont., some 70 kilometres from where she was abducted in Peterborough.
Ontario Superior Court Justice Bruce Glass, in handing down guilty verdicts on all seven counts, noted that Tippett "has a more than unique head structure" that allowed several people to positively identify him as the girl's abductor.
"There's no disputing he was the driver of the van," said Glass, who found there was no truth in Tippett's testimony about the carjackers.
Tippett, 33, suffers from Treacher Collins syndrome, a rare condition that causes cranial and facial deformities and can affect hearing, speech and breath.
During the trial, Tippett testified that he came across a group of young drunken girls in south-end Peterborough and that two of them, including the 12 year old, got into his van. He told court he planned to take her to hospital but that minutes after dropping off the older girl he was carjacked by two men at gunpoint and ditched in the country.
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Tippett was arrested Aug. 6, 2008, just hours after the girl was found half-naked behind a school in Courtice, Ont., some 70 kilometres from where she was abducted in Peterborough.
Ontario Superior Court Justice Bruce Glass, in handing down guilty verdicts on all seven counts, noted that Tippett "has a more than unique head structure" that allowed several people to positively identify him as the girl's abductor.
"There's no disputing he was the driver of the van," said Glass, who found there was no truth in Tippett's testimony about the carjackers.
Tippett, 33, suffers from Treacher Collins syndrome, a rare condition that causes cranial and facial deformities and can affect hearing, speech and breath.
During the trial, Tippett testified that he came across a group of young drunken girls in south-end Peterborough and that two of them, including the 12 year old, got into his van. He told court he planned to take her to hospital but that minutes after dropping off the older girl he was carjacked by two men at gunpoint and ditched in the country.
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