Four sentenced in ‘almost indescribable’ kidnapping, torture of N.Y. college students

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Four sentenced in ‘almost indescribable’ kidnapping, torture of N.Y. college students

By Derek Hawkins

December 23

The crimes were so horrific that even a longtime prosecutor choked on his words when he recalled what happened to the two victims.

 

On the evening of Dec. 5, 2015, two 21-year-old male students from the University of Rochester were lured to a house several miles from campus, believing they were headed to a party. One of the men and a female acquaintance had been flirting on Facebook, and the young woman invited them to come hang out.

 

Instead, the students walked into a trap. Moments after they arrived, the house went dark and a group of masked men pounced on them, bound them in duct tape and hauled them into a bathroom. There, over the next 40 hours, the attackers repeatedly tortured and sexually abused them, cutting them with knives and a chainsaw, dousing them in flammable liquids, and even shooting one in his legs.