A Stockbridge mobile home was described in court as a “torture chamber” by a woman whose assailant received three life sentences for brutalizing her.

  Timothy Hinton, 59, was sentenced November 4 by Henry County Superior Court Judge Brian Amero to three concurrent life sentences plus 71 years to be served consecutively. This came after a jury found Hinton guilty 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.

  The victim testified that Hinton struck her in the head and injected her with drugs which caused her to pass out. She awoke to find herself bound with tape and being raped by Hinton, who then held the woman captive inside his Stockbridge mobile home for 13 hours. She described the walls of the “torture chamber” as being covered in knives and swords.

  During the confinement, Hinton choked her and stunned her with a Taser. At one point, two other women held her down while he attempted to cut off her finger and conducted a cavity search of her body. The two accomplices pled guilty to false imprisonment and other charged and then testified against Hinton at his trial. Their sentencing was scheduled for a later date.

  “This is about as brutal, horrible, vicious and mean-spirited as crime comes,” Judge Amero told Hinton during sentencing. “It is a level of pain and brutality that is really hard to fathom that was displayed by this conduct -almost an inhumane trait to what we’ve seen here over this last week.”

  The case was prosecuted by the District Attorney’s Crimes Against Children/Domestic Violence Unit, which prosecutes sexual assault cases.