NEW YORK - An 18-count indictment accuses a Brooklyn man of kidnapping his 26-year old ex-girlfriend on June 29, 2012, keeping her bound and captive for a month, during that time she was relentlessly beaten all over her face and body, bound with cables and wires,  burned with hot metal, and threatened with death at gunpoint.

Anthony Matthews, 31, was indicted on two counts of kidnapping in the first degree; attempted murder in the second degree; kidnapping in the second degree; two counts of assault in the first degree; assault in the second degree; unlawful imprisonment in the first degree; unlawful imprisonment in the second degree; assault in the third degree and eight counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree.  If convicted on the top count the defendant faces life in prison. 

According to the indictment, on June 29, 2012 Matthews took the victim from her father’s Peekskill home.  The defendant drove her to his cousin’s Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment, where she was allegedly kept captive for over a month.

The indictment alleges that during that time the defendant shoved a gun in her mouth, breaking her teeth; used a scalding-hot clothing iron to burn her legs and a screwdriver heated over an open flame to burn her genitals; beat her with wooden planks, including one with protruding nails and that he kept her bound-up with extension cords, electronic charger cords and other restraints. 

According to the indictment, Matthews kept the victim hostage until July 30, 2012, when he drove her to his mother’s apartment in Bedford-Stuyvesant, and left the victim on the doorstep.  The mother called 911.  The victim was taken to Woodhull Hospital.

Medical records show the defendant sustained severe septic shock, having lost more than half of the blood in her body.  In addition, she had spinal damage, a liver laceration, fractured ribs, a fractured nose, numerous burns, bruising, and swelling on her face and body.  The victim remains hospitalized.