My neighbor raped me, woman tells deputies

A woman screamed when she woke up at 4 a.m. to find a masked man armed with a knife, lurking over her bed. The intruder raped her and told her: “You really should deadbolt your door because I didn’t really want to do this, but I had to do it.”

And the attacker, later identified as Timothy Walding, 18, of West Boynton, even offered to do yard work to make up for raping his neighbor.

Walding also told the woman it wouldn’t be awkward living down the street from him because he’d be joining the military at the end of the month, according to a Palm Beach Sheriff’s arrest report.

After the woman said she managed to get Walding to leave, deputies arrested him Friday.

The ordeal started at about 4 a.m. Friday when the woman woke up to see Walding. He put his hand over her mouth, the knife to her neck, and told her not to scream,