Now that the trial of the young man that has been accused of taking her life is over, I feel that we can now begin to speak about what is been happening without affecting anything.
So, I have setup this blog for a couple of reasons:-
- To let those who knew Tania have a place to keep up with what's going on.
- There are some who have known us in the past and have lost contact with us who may want to get in touch with us.
- To hopefully have an impact on the community, so that these sort of things never happen again (Yeah, I know, wishful thinking)
- So that those others who have lost loved ones can know that there is a place they can have a chat about those they miss.
- Tania was born on 18th April 1990 and died on 19th July 2005.
- According to the autopsy she was stabbed 48 times. From what I understand most of the injuries that she suffered were survivable, except for the one that penetrated her heart.
- Because of that injury, she passed away before the ambulance arrived some 15 minutes after the attack. The ambulance officers did everything that they could to revive her.
- Before she died, she managed to identify her attacker to those who first came to her assistance.
- I think myself lucky that I was at home that afternoon and managed to get to her side before she died. Although she was not conscious when I got there.
- She was fun loving and very cheeky. There were an number of times when I caught her with her jeans slipping down - just enough to show her "coin slot" and when we told her to pull her pants up, she pulled them down that little bit more. Then wagged her tail at me, before pulling her pants up.
- She loved her friends and family. If anyone she knew was down, she would come alongside them and do everything that she could to cheer them up.
- Tania loved netball and played every saturday morning.
- To the best of my knowledge, she was loved by all that she knew.
- She gave her heart to the creator of this world before she died and because of that at least I know that I will be able to see her again when I get to heaven.
There were over 500 people who attended the funeral of this vivacious teenager. From what I've seen at her funeral and over the last almost 3 years, her life and death have had a gigantic impact on the local community.
We still have no idea why she was attacked - and maybe never will.
2 comments:
Im Emily Trappitt.
If u remember me and my sister, Paige. u may not, i want to share my memory of her.
My fondest memory is when me, tania and my brother harley went to go bowling at bateau bay bowling alley. Because of christmas, the alley was closed, so we went to putt putt golf. Mandy took us there, with tanias sister. that was an awesome day, afterwards we went back to her house and played a board game.
She helped me at my hardest time in life, and i will never forget that.
i love her dearly.
i will miss her forever.
xxx em.
We too are missing her, there is a Tania shaped hole in my life.
Mandy remembers that day.
Chris
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