A Peterborough man accused of abducting a 12-year-old girl near Oshawa, didn’t live in Barrie as has been reported by several media outlets, Barrie police say.

Stanley Tippett, 32, was charged with abduction and sexual assault Wednesday after police found a missing Peterborough girl in Oshawa.

Initial media reports say Tippett lived at a subsidized housing complex in Barrie in 2004 when he was charged with criminal harassment.

But Sgt. Dave Goodbrand, from Barrie police, said Tippett lived in Collingwood and just appeared at the Barrie court to face charges.

The victim in that case was a 25-year-old woman, his next-door neighbour. There was a publication ban on the details to protect her identity, but on June 28, 2005 Tippett was given a weapons prohibition for 10 years, a two-year-probation and two-year suspended sentence.

Now Tippett is facing more charges after a girl was reported missing at 1:30 a.m. Wednesday morning.

Police said she was at a birthday party with friends in Peterborough when, somehow, she wound up in a red van. She was reported missing by her grandmother. At 2:30 a.m., screams were heard near a high school in Courtice and when police showed up, a red van took off.

They followed but called off the chase because it became a public safety concern. The van was found abandoned and Tippett was later arrested.

In December 2005, Tippett was also sentenced to two years in a federal penitentiary for criminal harassment and breach of a court order, after harassing a 21-year-old Peterborough woman. Tippett was also questioned in the disappearance of a 15-year-old girl in 1999. Her remains were found four months later, and no one was charged in the crime.

Tippett has five young children with his wife Natalie, and was allegedly having an affair with another woman, who is pregnant.

With files from Torstar News Service

Janis Ramsay jramsay@simcoe.com