Two charged with RVC kidnapping

A man in Old Mill Court held a woman and her 11-month-old son hostage for five days, according to Nassau County police.

On July 20, the woman, 20, and her son arrived at the Old Mill Court apartment of the child’s grandmother, Yolanda V. Gilreath, 51, for a visit, police said. Gilreath had texted the woman, asking to see the child. When she arrived, the child’s father, Malachi Blaylock, 20 — who, according to police, was living with Gilreath, his mother — met her at the door.

The woman had an order of protection against Blaylock, but the police report stated that he took the child from her arms, handed him to Gilreath and ordered the younger woman into his bedroom. There he pushed her to the floor, told her she could not leave, yelled at her and punched her face and body.

Over the next five days, police said, the woman was held against her will while being beaten with an electrical cord, stabbed in the right hand with a pair of scissors and threatened with a handgun.

“She was beaten repeatedly throughout the five days,” NCPD Inspector Kenneth Lack said at a press conference on Tuesday. “She was strangled. She had injuries all over her body — contusions, lacerations.”

She attempted to flee the home at least four times, only to be restrained by Blaylock.

Lack said that Blaylock wanted to see the child and was jealous of a new relationship the woman had. He also said that Gilreath and Blaylock told the woman that if she tried to leave, Child Protective Services would take the child away from her.

On July 22, Gilreath and Blaylock drove the woman and her child to the home of Gilreath’s daughter, Blaylock’s sister, in Hempstead, where, according to police, they continued holding her against her will. Blaylock’s sister tried to call 911 when she saw the woman’s injuries, but Blaylock stopped her by smashing her cell phone.

On July 24 at 10 p.m., Blaylock left the apartment, and the woman, using a tablet computer, managed to contact her mother, who came to the home and took her to a hospital in Brooklyn to be treated for her injuries. The child was unharmed.

Police found Blaylock in Hempstead and Gilreath in Rockville Centre on July 27, and arrested them.