Officers with the Phoenix Police Division responded to a 911 name at roughly 4 p.m. on July 2 for a reported assault. After they arrived, they encountered a lady who claimed she’d simply escaped from a shed the place she’d been held for the previous two weeks.

The lady advised first responders that it was her then-boyfriend Timothy James Wooden, 36, who had been answerable for holding her towards her will. Not too long ago evicted, she stated that she had initially been staying within the shed behind her boyfriend’s father’s house, in keeping with AZ Household, however issues rapidly modified.

She alleged that Wooden managed to maintain her contained in the shed for 14 days by binding her ankles with tow straps, chaining the double doorways to the shed shut and stacking a wall of bricks exterior to maintain them from opening.

The sufferer stated she was lastly capable of make her escape by way of the again of the shed, however not after enduring alleged threats, violence, sexual assault, and even being buried alive.

Speaking with Fox affiliate KSAZ, the neighbor described the sufferer’s raveled look when she arrived, saying that she was bruised all through her physique with proof of swelling and even chew marks. Hospital workers later confirmed extra accidents, together with a damaged rib.

“She was frantic. She was scared to loss of life that he was going to seek out her and kill her,” the neighbor advised KSAZ. “She had two black eyes, after which she had a lower proper in right here. She had a bruise on her head. She had a bruise on her leg.”

Whereas talking with police, the sufferer shared a few of her alleged ordeal over the earlier two weeks, as detailed in courtroom by the prosecution.

“He held her captive for over 14 days, imprisoned in a shed. He beat her. He pressured intercourse on her below threats of loss of life. He held down her neck to cease her respiration. He tied her down on the door with numerous chains,” a prosecutor stated, per KSAZ.

“He threatened to chop off her foot with a noticed, after which he pulled out a noticed and truly did injure her foot to some extent,” they continued. “He dug a gap beneath the shed, and he buried her for 2 days.”

All through, the sufferer stated that Wooden would make her put on make-up to cover accidents on her face, per courtroom paperwork.

“This sufferer, very nicely for 14 days, might have been nervous that she might not survive this incident,” the prosecution argued.

After two weeks of this alleged ongoing torment, the lady stated she was capable of make her escape by way of a rear entry door of the shed that had been left unlocked.

Later that very same day, Wooden was apprehended and brought into custody exterior his mother and father’ house. He was booked into the Maricopa County Jail for kidnapping, illegal imprisonment, sexual assault, felony menace, assault, and three counts of aggravated assault.

Wooden denied all the pieces in his first courtroom look, calling them false allegations.

He advised the courtroom, “These are some loopy allegations. I do not … that is not me. I’ve three children and that is simply … she simply received out of the loony bin or no matter. I do not know. It is in Mesa.”

“I suppose she has these episodes, and when she has an episode, I am speculated to name her mother. I wasn’t house on the time. After I received house, the police had been there, and this all simply sort of broke out,” he added.

Regardless of his denials, police discovered proof that helps the lady’s claims, together with chains and tow straps within the shed, in addition to a mattress. A forensic nurse decided that the sufferer’s accidents had been additionally according to the small print of her story.

Wooden was beforehand sentenced to a 12 months in jail for tried aggravated home violence in 2010. He’s at the moment behind bars in Maricopa County Jail on a $150,000 cash-only bond.