KIDNAP HORROR
Boy, 11, is snatched, choked, beaten, nearly killed by dad's crazed ex: cops
Thursday, June 17, 2004
By Michaelangelo Conte
Journal staff writer
An 11-year-old Jersey City boy was left bleeding, bruised, naked and in shock after suffering horrendous trauma at the hands of his father's ex-girlfriend, who allegedly signed him out of school and turned her basement into a nightmare of torture, officials said.
When the boy was found in a basement boiler-room closet in the Union Street home of Gloria Sumter, 44, the blood vessels in both his eyes were ruptured, he had cuts on his legs that would require stitches, and a contusion above his eye, police said.
Sumter was arrested yesterday and charged with kidnapping, aggravated assault, endangering the welfare of a child and endangering an injured victim, Jersey City Police Chief Ronald Buonocore said at a press conference at police headquarters on Erie Street yesterday afternoon.
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Sidebar describing how woman conned school officials into letting her sign the boy out of school