A man accused of burglary and sex assault was arrested Monday morning.
Theodore Tinsley, 26, is charged after an incident that happened Sunday morning in Northwest D.C.
The victim, an unidentified woman, reported that a man entered her bedroom on the top floor of her home while she was sleeping before 7 a.m., according to court documents.
The woman tried to talk to Tinsley and offered him food because he appeared to be homeless, according to court documents.
While guiding him out of her house through the back door in a bedroom on the main level of the home, the woman said Tinsley exposed himself and raped her, according to court documents.
When the woman’s children went downstairs to the hallway outside the bedroom where she was being attacked, Tinsley stopped, and his victim was able to instruct them in her native language to go to their neighbors. She then tried to get away, but Tinsley began raping her again, according to court documents.
The neighbor to whom the victim's children fled then went to the victim's home; at that point, Tinsley fled the scene in an unknown direction, police said.
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Police used the description given by the victim to identify Tinsley as the suspect. He was arrested Monday morning.
Tinsley had been arrested a few days before the attack and just a couple blocks away for second-degree theft and assault on a police officer.
