TorontoSun.com - Canada- Tippett on web dating site: Woman

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TorontoSun.com - Canada- Tippett on web dating site: Woman: "Tippett on web dating site: Woman
She was 'leery' of meeting him. Met on Plenty of fish Free Online dating service

By CHRIS DOUCETTE



When the news of Stanley Tippett's arrest surfaced just over a week ago, an Oshawa woman couldn't help but shudder.

She realized the man accused of abducting and sexually assaulting a 12-year-old Peterborough girl was the same smooth-talking guy she met nearly a year ago through an online dating service.

Now the 36-year-old, who is too afraid to have her name published, says she is glad she listened to her instincts when Tippett urged her to get together for a face-meeting.
"Thank God I didn't meet with him," the woman said yesterday.
Tippett, 32, has a lengthy history of stalking and harassing young women.

The woman claims she met Tippett last October through the popular website plentyoffish.com, a free online dating service that boasts more than 250,000 users logging on each day from around the world.

DIFFERENT MAN
But the person she has been reading about over the past week is starkly different from the noble parent Tippett portrayed himself as.
""He told me he had full custody of his two children ...(that) his wife had run off and left him to become an escort," she said. "I felt sorry for the guy. But I was leery about meeting him, so I never did."
"I can't imagine how someone with five kids would have the time and the guts to run around chasing women on a dating site," she said.

'CHARITY' PRESIDENT
Tippett claimed to have grown up in Los Angeles and told her he had dual citizenship, she said. He also allegedly told her he was the president of "a charity company" in Peterborough.
"He even said he could get me a job there," the woman said. "But I already have a job, so I didn't need one."
In 1999 Tippett was questioned by Toronto Police following the disappearance and subsequent murder of Sharmini Anandavel, a 15-year-old girl whom he had offered to help find a job while living in the same Don Mills building.
In 2005 Tippett was twice convicted of criminally harassing women in Collingwood and Peterborough. He was arrested again on Aug. 6 after a vicious sex attack involving a pre-teen girl behind a high school in Courtice.
Tippett remains in custody.