An Ohio man will serve decades in jail after confessing to holding a woman in a “Torture Chamber” where he raped her and used a baseball bat and a metal chain as “instruments of torture” for weeks before attentive neighbors saw her anguish and notified police.
Shane Edward Hooper, 36, was sentenced on Thursday to 50 to 55 1/2 years in prison, Marion County Prosecutor Ray Grogan reported in a press release.
Hooper pled guilty to rape, kidnapping, felony assault, and strangling, according to online court documents.
“Shane Hooper built a torture chamber and trapped this woman inside,” Prosecutor Grogan stated during the sentencing. “Now he’ll be trapped in prison for at least the next 50 years.”
The horror began in May 2023, when Hooper detained a lady at her house and beat her with a baseball bat and a metal chain, which prosecutors described as “instruments of torture.”
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According to authorities, he “escalated his control over the victim” by nailing doors and windows shut, preventing her from escaping. Prosecutors say Hooper subjected her to great psychological fear and threatened to harm her and her family.
The case was brought to light the next month when attentive neighbors observed her in distress and called the police after Hooper moved her to a place on Silver Street in Marion, some 50 miles north of Columbus, Ohio. Police were summoned to a home to conduct a welfare check and discovered the injured 28-year-old lady. She was hospitalized with broken bones, open wounds, and eight damaged ribs, according to prosecutors.
“The brave woman told us she had been praying for rescue and God answered her prayers,” says Grogan.
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According to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, Hooper was on parole after spending eight months in jail for a forgery conviction in 2020. He was arrested on June 7, 2023, Lawandcrime Stated.
Grogan applauded the victim’s bravery and urged the public to be aware of such threats and report them to law authorities.
“Some good citizens spoke up and their actions likely saved this woman’s life,” Grogan told the media. “That’s the Marion County spirit I know and love.”