A Stockbridge man will spend the rest of his life in prison after a jury found him guilty of holding a woman captive for 13 hours and raping her.
Timothy Hinton, 59, was sentenced to three concurrent life sentences plus an additional 71 years in prison to run consecutively to the life sentences, the Henry County District Attorney’s Office said in a statement Monday.
Officials said Hinton held a woman captive inside a mobile home in Stockbridge’s Highland Village neighborhood for 13 hours during Mother’s Day weekend in 2018.
The victim testified that Hinton hit her in the head and injected her with drugs that caused her to pass out, the district attorney’s office said. When she woke up, she was bound with tape and Hinton was raping her, officials said.
She called Hinton’s home a “torture chamber,” officials said. The woman said the walls were covered with knives and swords, officials said.
While she was confined, Hinton choked her and stunned her with a Taser, she said. At some point, he had two women hold her down while he tried to cut off her finger and conducted a cavity search of her body, officials said.
The two women who were involved in the assault pleaded guilty to false imprisonment and other charges, officials said. They testified against Hinton at his trial, the district attorney said.
A superior court judge sentenced Hinton on Monday after he was convicted of one count of rape, two counts of aggravated sexual battery, three counts of aggravated assault, one count of false imprisonment and one count of battery.
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