Another victim of Aiesha Baker has come forward, claiming she wants to set the record straight.
Tamie Cox said Baker, 15, and another girl attacked her on a sidewalk in Edmonds in May 2009.
She said Baker was “hitting me” while the other girl “grabbed my hair and she’s pulling me down in submission while she was punching me in the face and the arm.”
A passerby saw the attack and called 911. Minutes later, police arrived and arrested Baker and her friend.
“And we went over and I identified the girls. And my purse was sitting on the hood of the car, and all my belongings were strewn down the street,” said Cox.
The attack left deep bruises on Cox’s chest and face.
“And my neck and shoulders hurt and the inside of my mouth was cut,” she said.
Cox said at first, she was going to let justice take its course. But she changed her mind after seeing Baker on TV, claiming to have been an innocent victim in a beating at a downtown Seattle bus tunnel.
Cox said seeing Baker portray herself as faultless “makes me sick to watch.”
“Because it’s an act; it’s all a play,” she said. “She’s not the innocent, sweet girl that she’s trying to portray that she is.”
The attack has traumatized Cox, who now refuses to walk anywhere alone.
“I’m really apprehensive now, and I never used to be. So that’s kind of sad, I think. My trust was really broken by her,” she said.
Baker was charged with second-degree robbery in the case, which is still pending in Snohomish County court. However, court documents indicate Baker has already pleaded guilty to a separate second-degree robbery charge in a September 2009 incident that took place at a store in South Seattle.
Mother of alleged attacker breaks silence
The mother of the girl arrested for delivering that now-infamous tunnel beating is breaking her silence, saying that the victim of the beating is anything but defenseless.
In an exclusive interview with KOMO News, the suspect’s mother says her daughter was in fear of Aiesha Baker, scared to take the bus – and that the surveillance video of the attack doesn’t tell the whole story.
The suspect’s mother, who asked not to be identified, said she was shocked to see her daughter allegedly beating a girl in the downtown Seattle bus tunnel.
But she’s now equally surprised to hear that Baker has been charged in two other separate attacks – the one on Tamie Cox and another on a security guard.
“I knew she wasn’t the angel that she was thought to be, but I didn’t know she had other cases going,” said the mother.
The suspect’s mother also said Baker bullied her daughter over the past two years and she had to help her daughter recover from her injuries.
“It’s been sad. It’s been hurtful, the black eyes,” she said.
But a Friday night news conference really made her blood boil – when Baker broke down in tears. The girl who allegedly bullied the suspect was now claiming to be a victim.
“I thought she was being a little deceitful,” says the suspect’s mother.
She also is upset that Baker and her mother are threatening to sue after the tunnel attack.
“She (Baker) wants to get paid from this situation, and she’s not really looking at what her daughter’s actions and how her daughter’s actions brought this on herself.”
Police: Baker beat guard during shoplifting attempt
Investigators said Baker and another teenage girl visited Saar’s Market in the 9000 block of Rainier Ave. S. around 10:30 p.m. The store’s security guard saw Baker’s friend putting a bottle of Rock Star Energy Drink and a bag of Funyuns into her bag, the police report said.
When the two girls bypassed the cash register and began walking toward the front door, the guard stopped the girls and detained Baker’s friend, detectives said. Baker was free to go.
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