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Just four weeks ago, Kimberly Clayton woke not from a nightmare but to a nightmare.

The 35-year-old Jefferson County wife and mother opened her eyes to find a masked stranger on top of her, in her bed, raping her. She would later find out that her accused assailant – previously labeled by authorities a serial rapist - was recently
released from prison and would go on to attack another woman just two days later.

Clayton is far from over the ordeal, but she said she will not let this crime defeat her nor define her.

“He did victimize me in my home, but I’m not going to be victimized for the rest of my life,’' Clayton said. “I will take and somehow turn this negative into a positive. So, if I can help another woman come forward or anything like, that I’m
willing to do that.”

Clayton’s life forever changed shortly after 4 a.m. on July 21. Her husband had already gotten up and gotten into the bathroom to get ready for work, his normal daily routine. Moments later, Clayton said, “I woke up with this man on top of me raping
me.”

“I called for my husband to help me, but I didn’t let the panic set in right way because there were three kids across the hall from me,’' she said.

Clayton didn’t know the man, who was wearing a bandana to conceal his identity. She tried to unmask him, but he then restrained her. “I couldn’t hear my husband calling back to me because we have a window unit in our room and I’m kind of hard of
hearing. When I didn’t see my husband didn’t come in the room, panic set in and I thought this man done killed everyone in my house,’' she said.

“I just started to scream, I mean scream like bloody murder,’' she said. “It was horrible.”

The intruder then jumped off of Clayton and fled. Clayton ran into the hallway, where she collided with her husband and her sister. Still in other bedrooms were Clayton’s 11-year-old daughter, the daughter’s best friend and the friend’s 7-year-old
sister.

“I’m in a panic and still half asleep and I’m telling my husband this man was on top of me raping me and he was like, ‘What do you mean?’

They quickly figured out the intruder had gained entry into the home by removing the window unit in the living room. Her husband and daughter had vaguely heard the commotion but assumed their puppy had knocked over a trash can or something.

They called 911 and then Clayton’s husband went after the attacker. “He went around the back of the house and didn’t see him,’' Clayton said. “When he came back and was standing in the yard, it was still dark, he saw a man that he thought at
first was our neighbor. When the man got close enough to my husband, he realized it wasn’t the neighbor and he shot at him. We guess he missed because he didn’t show up at a hospital or anything.”

“The man had a brick in his hand when he was coming back towards my house and I believe in my heart he was coming back to finish me off,’' Clayton said. “If my husband wouldn’t have been here, it would have been worse.”

https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2020/08/pure-evil-in-his-eyes-rape-victim-speaks-out-after-suspects-2nd-attack-in-jefferson-county.html

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