A 13-year-old managed to escape the clutches of a 50-year-old man who kidnapped her, sexually assaulted her, made her smoke weed, injected her with meth, and then scratched his name into her skin with a razor blade over the weekend in the North Bay. It is a scary story of a runaway teen gone really wrong, to be sure, and also just an insane tale about about an insane, tweaker rapist.
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports that the girl's ordeal began at 3 a.m. Friday when she was hanging around a gas station in Napa, following an argument with her mother earlier that night. She got picked up by 50-year-old Timothy Lee Marble of Napa, who proceeded to drive her out to the middle of nowhere to smoke some pot. The girl told authorities that she tried to fend off Marble's sexual advances, but that he then tied her to a tree and raped her. He then allegedly injected her with methamphetamine, and would later do the razor work, and assaulted her twice more in his truck.
The girl then jumped out of his moving vehicle in Bodega Bay early Saturday, 27 hours into this terror, and hid from Marble in some bushes. When he couldn't find her, Marble then, insanely, called 911 to report that she was missing, and had jumped out of his truck.
Sonoma County deputies responded to the scene at 5:40 a.m. Saturday, and were talking to Marble by the side of Highway 1 when the girl stumbled out of the bushes and told them that he had raped her. She also claimed that while she was hiding, he said he was going to kill her if she didn't come out.
Marble was arrested on suspicion of numerous counts of sexual acts with a minor, kidnapping, and child abuse.
According to Sonoma County Sgt. Spencer Crum, Marble has a long criminal history that includes previous sexual assault offenses, and in 2011 he was convicted on eight felony charges after trying to sell drugs to an undercover agent with the Napa Special Investigations Bureau (I'm guessing meth!).
As KRON 4 reports, Marble is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday on eight felony charges in connection with the weekend kidnapping and assault.
The girl was briefly hospitalized Saturday and returned to her mother.
