{"id":12379,"date":"2025-10-22T19:11:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T19:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/12379\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T19:11:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T19:11:39","slug":"nyc-man-gets-life-in-prison-for-kidnapping-pa-teen-from-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/12379\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC man gets life in prison for kidnapping Pa. teen from bed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Brooklyn man was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison after pleading guilty to kidnapping and sex crime charges in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingeagle.com\/2025\/10\/22\/new-york-man-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-kidnapping-reading-13-year-old-in-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">2022 abduction of his ex-girlfriend\u2019s 13-year-old daughter<\/a> from her Pennsylvania home.<\/p>\n<p>Duane Taylor, 50, entered the Reading, Pa. home of his ex-girlfriend in the early hours of Aug. 31, 2022, abducted the girl, and took her to his Brooklyn apartment, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim\u2019s mother told investigators that she had last seen her daughter around 10:30 p.m. before going to bed. When she woke up on the morning of Aug. 31, she realized the back door of the home was wide open. Police also found that the door\u2019s chain lock was broken.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine one morning finding your home\u2019s door broken open and your child\u2019s bed empty,\u201d\u00a0 Jacqueline Maguire, then-special agent in charge of the FBI\u2019s Philadelphia Division, said at the time, calling the incident <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-edpa\/pr\/brooklyn-man-indicted-federal-charges-kidnapping-child-reading-pa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u201ca parent\u2019s worst nightmare come true.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reading investigators contacted the New York City Police Department, who traced Taylor to his Brooklyn home but did not find the girl there, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>She was located later that day after a person called 911 to report that a child was asking for help, saying she had been kidnapped from Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor was later charged with kidnapping, travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, production of child pornography, possession of child pornography and transportation of child pornography.<\/p>\n<p>He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-edpa\/pr\/brooklyn-man-pleads-guilty-kidnapping-child-berks-county-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">pleaded guilty to all counts<\/a> on June 5, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania David Metcalf said.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, he was sentenced to life in prison and ordered to pay $3,000 in restitution and $3,500 in fines and assessments, the Reading Eagle reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Brooklyn man was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison after pleading guilty to kidnapping and sex crime&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[266,85,607,9,24,12,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-12379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","9":"tag-latest-headlines","10":"tag-national-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-staten-island","16":"tag-staten-island-headlines","17":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}