‘Torture Chamber,’ Baseball Bats & Steel Chains — Prosecutors Element Alleged Actions Of Man Given 50 Years In Jail

Shane Edward Hooper, 36, pleaded responsible to 2 counts of rape, two counts of kidnapping, two counts of felonious assault, and as soon as depend of strangulation for “heinous” crimes prosecutors say occurred between Might 2023 and June 2023.

Per a press launch from Marion County Prosecutor Ray Grogan’s workplace, Hooper “detained a feminine sufferer” at her own residence, the place she “endured extreme bodily abuse leading to damaged bones, open wounds, and eight fractured ribs.” Grogan says Hooper’s “management” over the sufferer “escalated,” because the suspect nailed home windows and doorways shut to “forestall her escape” and used “devices of torture” on her, together with a baseball bat and a metallic chain.

Prosecutors say he additionally subjected the sufferer to “intense psychological terror, threatening to kill each her and her household,” earlier than he — in a “determined flip of occasions,” moved the girl from her dwelling to a different location. It is there the place “observant people acknowledged her misery and contacted regulation enforcement,” stated Grogan’s workplace, including, “Some good residents spoke up and their actions probably saved this girl’s life.”

Police in Marion, Ohio then arrested Hooper and rescued the sufferer — who Grogan stated, “advised us she had been praying for rescue and God answered her prayers.”

After pleading responsible, officers “supplied impactful testimony” pushing for “a stringent punishment reflective of the heinous nature of the crimes Hooper dedicated.” He was given 50-55.5 years in jail.

“Shane Hooper created a torture chamber and trapped this girl in it,” added Grogan. “Now he’ll be trapped in jail for not less than the following 50 years.”