A divided state appeals panel has upheld the attempted kidnapping sentence of a previously convicted child molester who repeatedly made advances toward a 10-year-old girl and eventually tried to give her the keys to his apartment, which she refused.
The 3-2 Appellate Division, First Department, panel ruled in People v. Denson, 701/99, that the man, Raymond Denson, offered the keys to the girl in the hope that she would come willingly to his apartment where he could molest her, and that this constituted attempted kidnapping even though there was no evidence that the girl might have agreed.
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