Man gets life in rape of elderly blind woman

TYLER – A Waxahachie native was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday morning for raping an elderly blind woman in Smith County. According to our news partner KETK, 61-year-old Stephen Hill was convicted last month for the February 2020 attack. In a statement released at the time, District Attorney Jacob Putman said the 81-year-old victim was living with her daughter at the time of the attack and Hill also resided there. A teenage girl found Hill lying in bed with the victim one night and told her mother, the victim’s daughter. When Tyler police arrived, Hill initially denied doing anything wrong. Detectives told him about the possibility of there being DNA evidence and he then changed his story, saying they merely had consensual sex.