NYC woman accused of holding online ‘date’ hostage for $100K in twisted kidnapping, torture schemeBy Tamar Lapin
March 14, 2022
Late one night last month, a 24-year-old man headed to a Bronx apartment — believing he was about to hook up with a pretty brunette he’d met on Instagram.
It turned out to be a honeytrap that nearly cost him his life.
The woman he’d been chatting to was actually part of a group of sadists — who spent hours torturing the kidnapped man, even stabbing him while demanding $100,000 in ransom on a FaceTime call to his horrified brother, Manhattan prosecutors allege.
When police found the victim some 24 hours later, he was tied up and gagged in the back of a van — barely clinging to life.
The beauty who allegedly lured him, Valerie Rosario, 22, is now facing charges of kidnapping and attempted murder over the sick scheme, it was revealed in court last week.
Prosecutors say the Lower East Side con woman allegedly coaxed the “complete stranger” to an address on Marble Hill Avenue in The Bronx on Feb. 7 after they connected on Instagram.
He arrived at around 1 a.m. — and that’s when the twisted torture session began, according to a criminal complaint.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2022/03/14/nyc-woman-charged-in-kidnapping-torture-of-stranger-from-instagram/
