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ATHENS â The Limestone County Sheriffâs Office said its investigators arrested an Athens man Sunday after his estranged girlfriend made a 911 call while being raped.
Mark Anthony Craig, 59, is charged with first-degree domestic violence rape and was released this morning from the Limestone County Jail on $65,000 bond, according to the office.
Stephen Young, a spokesman for the Sheriff's Office, said that during the 911 call placed by the victim on Sunday, dispatchers could hear evidence that she was being raped.
Deputies responded to the residence in the 25000 block of Beatline Road and detained Craig, and the victim was taken to Athens-Limestone Hospital. According to Young, the woman told investigators that Craig woke her up and demanded that she have sex with him or leave, and as she began to leave, Craig punched her, started choking her and forcibly began raping her.