Monday, February 26, 2018
Parents arrested after teen daughter found bound in back of car
An upstate mom and dad were arrested for binding their daughter with duct tape and putting her in the back of a car on the Lower East Side, police said Monday.
Menachem Cohen, 40, and his wife Rachel Cohen, 38, of Monticello, NY, had told cops that their 19-year-old daughter has a mental disorder and needed to be restrained following the 5:30 p.m. Sunday incident, sources said.
Multiple bystanders called 911 to say that the mother was hitting the daughter, cops said. One caller reported that the teen was struggling with the older woman in the backseat of a 2009 Toyota Prius parked on Forsyth Street between Rivington and Stanton streets.
The caller also told dispatch that Menachem Cohen stated he and and his wife were the teen’s parents.
Sources say the victim was duct taped around her wrists, ankles and mouth.
The parents were charged with unlawful imprisonment, reckless endangerment, assault, criminal possession of controlled substance, and menacing. The pair was awaiting arraignment at Manhattan Criminal Court.
Emergency responders took the teen, who had bruising and swelling to her body, to Bellevue Hospital for treatment.
The victim was later placed in the hospital psychiatric ward, sources said.
“She has diminished mental capacity,” a source said.
Witness Juliana Cruzado, 18, who lives on Forsyth Street said she was with her sister and her sister’s boyfriend when they saw the incident unfold and then intervened.
“We looked out the window and we saw it,” Cruzado said, adding that the victim was “all taped up, and [the older woman] was on top of her, strangling her.”
“The tape was over her mouth all around her head… Her arms were taped together from her wrist to her elbows,” Cruzado said of the teen.
Cruzado said they called 911 and once the teen got out of the car they helped her take some of the tape off.
“We didn’t take it all the way off, because we wanted the cops to see it,” she said.
Cruzado added that the victim claimed “she was abducted, that she was 19, that she didn’t know them…she sounded like she was drugged.”
The Cohens said “they were her parents and they were treating her,” according to Cruzado.
Police say the teenager lives with her parents in the Sullivan County village.
A neighbor of the Cohen’s in Monticello was stunned by the nature of their arrests.
“I’m very shocked,” said the neighbor, who did not want to give her name.
The neighbor described the couple as “very nice people,” and said they typically drove around a mini-van.
It was not immediately clear why the Cohen family was in the Big Apple nearly 100 miles away from home.
https://nypost.com/2018/02/26/parents-arrested-after-teen-daughter-found-bound-in-back-of-car/amp/
Menachem Cohen, 40, and his wife Rachel Cohen, 38, of Monticello, NY, had told cops that their 19-year-old daughter has a mental disorder and needed to be restrained following the 5:30 p.m. Sunday incident, sources said.
Multiple bystanders called 911 to say that the mother was hitting the daughter, cops said. One caller reported that the teen was struggling with the older woman in the backseat of a 2009 Toyota Prius parked on Forsyth Street between Rivington and Stanton streets.
The caller also told dispatch that Menachem Cohen stated he and and his wife were the teen’s parents.
Sources say the victim was duct taped around her wrists, ankles and mouth.
The parents were charged with unlawful imprisonment, reckless endangerment, assault, criminal possession of controlled substance, and menacing. The pair was awaiting arraignment at Manhattan Criminal Court.
Emergency responders took the teen, who had bruising and swelling to her body, to Bellevue Hospital for treatment.
The victim was later placed in the hospital psychiatric ward, sources said.
“She has diminished mental capacity,” a source said.
Witness Juliana Cruzado, 18, who lives on Forsyth Street said she was with her sister and her sister’s boyfriend when they saw the incident unfold and then intervened.
“We looked out the window and we saw it,” Cruzado said, adding that the victim was “all taped up, and [the older woman] was on top of her, strangling her.”
“The tape was over her mouth all around her head… Her arms were taped together from her wrist to her elbows,” Cruzado said of the teen.
Cruzado said they called 911 and once the teen got out of the car they helped her take some of the tape off.
“We didn’t take it all the way off, because we wanted the cops to see it,” she said.
Cruzado added that the victim claimed “she was abducted, that she was 19, that she didn’t know them…she sounded like she was drugged.”
The Cohens said “they were her parents and they were treating her,” according to Cruzado.
Police say the teenager lives with her parents in the Sullivan County village.
A neighbor of the Cohen’s in Monticello was stunned by the nature of their arrests.
“I’m very shocked,” said the neighbor, who did not want to give her name.
The neighbor described the couple as “very nice people,” and said they typically drove around a mini-van.
It was not immediately clear why the Cohen family was in the Big Apple nearly 100 miles away from home.
https://nypost.com/2018/02/26/parents-arrested-after-teen-daughter-found-bound-in-back-of-car/amp/
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