{"id":10653,"date":"2025-10-21T23:42:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T23:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/10653\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T23:42:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T23:42:06","slug":"brooklyn-man-sentenced-to-life-for-2022-reading-kidnapping-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/10653\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn man sentenced to life for 2022 Reading kidnapping | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; A Brooklyn man has been ordered to spend the rest of his life behind bars for kidnapping a Reading girl.<\/p>\n<p>Duane Taylor, who pleaded guilty to kidnapping in June, learned his fate today when he was sentenced to life in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say he abducted the girl from her home on Schuylkill Avenue in August of 2022 and took her to his home in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators identified Taylor using home security footage and say he knew the girl&#8217;s mother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; A Brooklyn man has been ordered to spend the rest of his life behind bars&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[8536,3626,28,736,128,130,129,3636],"class_list":{"0":"post-10653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-duane-taylor","9":"tag-kidnapping","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-reading","12":"tag-reading-city","13":"tag-reading-city-headlines","14":"tag-reading-city-news","15":"tag-violent-crime"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}