Kidnapper who held victim in dog cage sentenced to 7 years
A mild-mannered grocery store clerk once more wears a Superman ring, but it’s on a different finger than the one thugs had threatened to carve off during a violent 2014 robbery and kidnapping.
The 26-year-old victim survived a cruel online honey trap that saw him held for ransom in a dog cage before his wary tormentors choked him half to death and abandoned him in the wilds of Eastern Ontario.
Armed with a replacement ring on his right hand, he was in court Wednesday to see a measure of justice meted out to Traevonne Mattis, a teenage robber who became the autistic man’s jailor during the September 2014 events.
Mattis, 19, got a seven-year stretch in the pen.
“I think we’re both pleased,” the victim’s mother said outside the court.
“He still suffers.”
Mattis pleaded guilty in May to charges including forcible confinement and conspiracy to commit robbery.
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