Man Admits Kidnaping to Fulfill Sexual Fantasy

Lumber mill worker Cameron Hooker, accused of the kidnaping and rape of a woman he allegedly kept as his sexual slave for 7 1/2 years, has admitted that he abducted the woman so he could fulfill a bondage fantasy.

Afterward, Hooker testified Friday, he began to “feel real bad” about the kidnaping, but did not immediately free the woman because he was afraid she would go to the police.

Hooker told a San Mateo Superior Court jury that he finally offered the woman her freedom a year later, but by that time she had come to love him and enjoy bondage and that she decided to stay with him.

“I was sort of shocked,” said Hooker, who admitted keeping the naked woman hung handcuffed from basement rafters or in a coffin-like box for much of the time. “I tossed up my arms and said, ‘Welcome to the family.’ ”

Hooker, accused of 16 counts of kidnaping, rape and other sex charges, is married and has two children. Under questioning by his attorney, Rolland Papendick, Hooker said his wife, Janice, agreed to the abduction of the then-20-year-old hitchhiker in Red Bluff eight years ago.

Abducted at Knifepoint

He admitted that the woman was abducted at knifepoint to fulfill his fantasies of sexual bondage with a captive woman. But soon after the abduction, Hooker said, he and his wife began having second thoughts.

“Things just weren’t working out with this fantasy,” he said. “I was getting to feel real bad about all the things I had gotten into.”

Hooker said his wife came up with the idea of forcing the woman to sign a sex slave contract that would be enforced by a fictitious organization called “The Company.”

The captive was told that she would be killed if she ever tried to escape, he said.

“We felt if she was afraid enough of this organization she wouldn’t go to the police,” he explained. Meanwhile, he and the woman had developed a close, “affectionate” relationship, he said.

Prosecutor Christine McGuire rested her case early Friday. Janice Hooker and the alleged victim were the main prosecution witnesses. Hooker was the first witness Papendick called.