A New York City man has been arrested and faces multiple charges after police discovered his battered teen siblings in a Bronx apartment, where they had allegedly been trapped since January.
Police charged 34-year-old Michael Ramos with endangering the welfare of a child, unlawful imprisonment, assault and several counts of criminal possession of a weapon, according to a criminal complaint from the Bronx District Attorney's Office.
The 14-year-old described the horrifying abuse the pair allegedly endured for months, including multiple occasions when Ramos took his pistol and held it to her and her brother's heads, telling them"Someone is going to die today. Do you want to die today? Open your mouth," prosecutors said. She also claimed Ramos would apply ointment cream to his hands before putting on motorcycle gloves and repeatedly punching the siblings on their heads and bodies.
A local child abuse pediatrician treated the siblings and said they had"patterned injuries in various stages of healing about their bodies in the form of linear marks and that said injuries and marks are consistent with being whipped by an electrical cord."
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