A 10-year-old girl who told police she was abducted by an ice cream truck driver on Staten Island Sunday allegedly made up the kidnapping, police said Monday.
An ice cream truck driver on Staten Island was arrested on Monday for allegedly luring a 10-year-old girl into his truck, cops said.
Jonathan Castro, 20, allegedly picked the child up at Harbor Road and Forest Avenue in Mariners Harbor on Sunday and took her for a ride, according to police. The girl initially told her parents she had been kidnapped by the driver. She then told cops that a man grabbed her wrist as she was heading into a deli near Harbor Road.
She said she was able to break free and flee the vehicle less than a mile away where she used a passerby’s phone to call her mother and report the alleged kidnapping, according to the initial police account.However, cops said Monday that the girl concocted the abduction tale. Castro and the 10-year-old girl had been messaging back and forth over social media and had planned to meet in person.Castro was charged with endangering the welfare of a child, attempted sexual abuse and assault.
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