Child Abducted From Arena

This happened the other day and it still blows me away..I guess because it's so close to home.
I can't believe an adult wasn't in the bathroom with the child.You have to be so careful these days there are nuts everywhere.I hope they catch the S.O.B before he attacks again.

(WOODVILLE) ‘We want the son of a **** caught.’
Those were the first words out of the mouth of the grandfather of the four-year-old Woodville girl who was seriously assaulted at the Woodville/Eldon Community Centre Monday (Oct. 18).
“I just don’t believe that anyone would do this to a 34-pound little girl,” he told This Week on Wednesday.
“The guy’s not much of a man I’ll tell you that.”
Kawartha Lakes OPP say officers were called to the Union Street arena shortly after 6:30 p.m. after a child was taken from the washroom and assaulted by an unknown male.
Kawartha Lakes OPP Crime Unit investigation revealed that the young victim entered the washroom about 6:30 p.m.
A family member tried to enter the washroom several minutes later, but the door was locked, OPP say. Once an arena employee was notified the door was unlocked, but the child was no longer in the washroom. It was only moments later that the victim was found in a field adjacent to the arena in a semi-conscious state with serious injuries. Police believe the suspect removed the child through a side washroom exit.
There is access to the public washroom from the foyer as well as from outside the building, confirmed City of Kawartha Lakes Parks, Recreation and Culture manager Craig Shanks. He said both doors lock from the inside and the outside and the door leading outside would typically be locked.
At this time, OPP are investigating just a physical assault, said OPP Const. Mark Boileau, not necessarily with any sexual component.
The victim was taken to Ross Memorial Hospital with serious injuries, but later had to be airlifted to Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto.
The grandfather, whose name This Week is not publishing out of respect for the family’s privacy, said his young grand-daughter’s head “is all smashed up,” and that she has internal injuries. She is in serious but stable condition.
“She’s not good, but she’s coming along,” he said, adding that she was talking to her parents in the hospital.
He said the family is obvious distraught by the vicious attack on one of their own and that “It’s very, very hard to cope with.”
When the girl’s grandmother went to stay with the four-year-olds parents at Sick Kids in Toronto, the grandfather said she brought comfort items to her room. The local school also sent teddy bears to the girl’s bedside, he added.
He described his grand-daughter as a “Grandma’s girl,” who loved having her fingernails and toenails painted and getting her makeup done while bonding with her grandmother.
“It’s just a tragedy is what it is.”
At one point he commented that he would like to be the one to catch the predator that victimized his young grand-daughter, but joked that the outcome for the suspect would not be good.
For now, the hardest part is the waiting, he said.
“The days go slow when you are waiting for information.”
In terms of police response, the grandfather said he believes the police are doing everything they can to find the predator responsible for this shocking crime.
“The police are doing their due diligence, I’ll tell you that ... they are checking out everything.”
The afternoon after the attack, no fewer than a dozen police vehicles could be seen from the end of the blocked driveway at the community centre, with at least as many officers searching the area. Officers could be seen in purple gloves with evidence bags, and seemed to be particularly focused on a grassy area to the right of the entrance of the building. The entire area around the community centre is blocked off from the public for the investigation.
Walking through Woodville on Wednesday, it was quiet, unusually quiet, according to locals who were working in the village.
“I’ve hardly seen anyone today,” said Shannon Goodman who works at Pirate’s Pizza and Variety on King Street, who explained that there are usually a lot more people out and about on a typical weekday.
“Kids are being driven to school or parents are walking with their kids whatever age. So it obviously had a very bad affect.”
And while the Cannington resident said she feels uncomfortable with the predator on the loose, she also feels confident that investigators just need the time and the perpetrator will be caught.
Leann McGregor, who works up the street at Woodville Food Market, along with fellow employee Jessica Burton, has lived in the village for most of her life, said word has spread like wildfire about the assault.
“For sure everybody knows about it and kids are not going out,” she said, adding that she has never heard about something like this happening in Woodville.
“Just because it’s such a small town, there’s a lot of talk.”
“The whole town is upset about it,” said Ms Burton, who added that she has never been so angry in her whole life than she is thinking about the disgusting act in her town.
The Food Market employees said they had both noticed a major difference in town with parents not letting kids away from their sides. Having grown up in the village, both women said they remember constantly playing in the arena as young girls and no one would think twice about it because, as Ms McGregor described, “We’re practically one giant family,” until now, that is. Both women expressed confusion that no one noticed anything awry, because there were practices going on at the arena at the time of the assault, so both thought it odd that no one would recognize an unfamiliar face in the crowd.
With a niece of the same age, Ms McGregor said it “just turns her stomach” to think about what the little girl went through and said she doesn’t even know what she would do if it was her niece.
“You just don’t expect something like that to happen here,” Ms McGregor said, adding that even if the predator is caught, some things - like Woodville’s innocence - can never be brought back.
“It’s just not going to be the same around here, that’s for sure."