Pennsylvania Man Arrested for Kidnapping Mother and Son in New York: Details of the Shocking Incident

Damion Gooden was arrested in Pennsylvania on suspicion of breaking into a New York woman’s home, beating her and kidnapping her and her 13-year-old son against a restraining order.

Gooden, 47, reportedly attacked the Elmira, NY home early Sunday morning around 12:30 a.m. and He beat a mother on the bed before threatening her with a large kitchen knife and tying her to a chairaccording to an arrest affidavit cited by WENY-TV.

He then allegedly dragged the woman into the kitchen by her hair and stopped her with a shoe and a phone charger. At about 5 am. He put them both in the woman’s car and told them he would take them to Philadelphia., city ​​located 237 miles away.

Authorities were notified of the incident when Gooden stopped 20 miles from the track for gas in Athens, Pennsylvania, and he accidentally dropped his cell phone from his pocket. The woman used it quickly call 911 before he returned and the authorities arrived just as the car was driving away.

When he was arrested, Gooden turned himself in to police with his hands up and said he had “made a mistake.” He later confessed to the crimes while turning himself in to the Athens Police Department, it was reported Daily News.

The woman, who has not been identified, had a restraining order against Gooden, but the details of their relationship are unclear. Gooden is not the child’s fatheraccording to the certificate.

Gooden was arrested by bail of $2 million dollars and has been charged with nine offences, including kidnapping to intimidate and kidnapping a minor, unlawful restraint causing grievous bodily harm and terrorist threats with the intention of scaring another person.

All charges are only allegations and those accused are presumed innocent until proven guilty in court.

Domestic violence is persistent in New York City and surrounding areas, between relatives, roommates and partners, even with small victims. Every day in NYC, an average of approx 747 incidents of domestic violence – including assaults, abuse, verbal abuse – and around 65 murders each year.

this month a mother was accused of killing twins 5 years old in the Bronx (NYC). Last Good Friday A 9-year-old Latino boy died in a car fire behind a New Jersey high school and his father, a school employee, was charged with setting the fire. after a domestic dispute.

End of March 26-year-old athlete accused of beating her mother to death with a pot in her Bronx home. Also last month a son was arrested as suspected of beating his mother to death in their home New Jersey.

In February a man was charged killing his sister by hitting her several times with a frying pan when she was sitting next to her father in a home in New York.

Also in February a young 43-year-old Hispanic grandmother was killed by her partner, who then killed himself in the victim’s apartment there Brooklyn (NYC). At the beginning of that month Mother dies and her two children injured after gunman opens fire on family inside a flat in The Bronx (NYC).

In January A man was arrested a day after his mother’s funeral on suspicion of strangling her. in your home in Island State (NYC). Also that month A man and a woman were found dead with gunshot wounds to the head in a hotel flat Brooklyn (NYC) in an apparent murder-suicide. Days before Hispanic woman killed her daughters and husband, then took her own life in her Union (NJ) home after receiving an eviction order, the authorities reported.

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