PETERBOROUGH, Ont. - An Ontario man accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl detailed vividly Friday, and sometimes emotionally, the night he says he was carjacked by armed men he claims knew the alleged victim.

Stanley Tippett's recollection came to an abrupt end Friday afternoon after two days spent outlining the 24 hours surrounding the incident which began with a hospital visit and ended with his arrest.

Tippett, 33, was taken into custody Aug. 6, 2008 after the girl was found half-naked behind a school in Courtice, some 70 kilometres from Peterborough, where he had picked up the girl.

He said he found her severely intoxicated and planned to take her to hospital when he was carjacked and later dumped on the side of a highway.

The married father of six has pleaded not guilty to seven charges including kidnapping, sexual assault and sexual interference.

Tippett told court Friday he never feared for the girl's safety during the alleged carjacking because he believed the two assailants knew her.

He said two teenage boys with weapons forced him to get down in the back seat, struck him on the head and then took off in his van with his money.

Tippett testified that the 12-year-old was unconscious in the front seat throughout the ordeal.

He got emotional for the first time during his testimony, wiping away tears as he recalled the alleged assailants reaching for a tool from his toolbox and smashing him on the head.

He said the carjackers forced him out of the van on the side of Highway 115, outside Peterborough.

He told court he had no idea where he was, so he followed train tracks west until he could get cell phone reception to call his wife.

Tippett told the court he reached her but couldn't hear her properly without his hearing aid.

However, he testified that once he used his phone's speaker he could hear her tell him to go to his uncle's house -- close to where he believed he was in the community of Newcastle. Tippett told court his memory is hazy but he eventually came across a transmission shop, where he called a taxi.

He said he talked to the cab driver, though he couldn't recall details. Tippett denied earlier testimony from the driver who said Tippett had told him he'd been travelling from work in Toronto with a co-worker when he had to call a cab because of transmission problems with their truck.

Tippett said Friday he arrived at his uncle's home around 6:30 a.m. and called police a short while later.

As Tippett neared the end of his testimony, questions from his lawyer, Michael McLachlan, focused on phone calls made from his uncle's house that morning.

Tippett disputed statements from witnesses -- including the cab driver, his mistress and Staff Sgt. Dan Smith -- about what he alleged happened.

Smith's lawyer read notes the police officer scribbled during a telephone conversation with Tippett that morning.

Smith wrote that Tippett told him the carjackers dumped him at Highway 115 and Tapley 1/4 Line at 1 a.m., but Tippett said he never told Smith that.

Tippett earlier testified he had no idea where he was dropped, but that it was much later than 1 a.m.

He said he hung up on Smith after he felt the conversation "was getting nowhere."

Smith earlier testified he was trying to keep Tippett on the line.

"I felt they knew what I was doing," Tippett told the court. He earlier testified that he thought Smith "had it out" for him.

The trial has lasted ten days and the judge ruled that at least four more days are needed, so proceedings were adjourned until Dec. 14.

The victim's mother, who cannot be identified, said outside court she was not impressed with the delay.

"I just wish the whole thing was done and over with," she said.

She added that the hiatus would have no impact on her daughter, who begins Grade 8 next week, because she has no memory of the events that transpired that night.