Chilling details have emerged from a 2022 GTA kidnapping case after a man was sentenced to 13 years for his role in abducting and torturing a woman as her captors demanded $1 million in bitcoin.
Keyron Moore, 39, was convicted of using a firearm to kidnap the victim — identified only as A.T. due to a court-ordered publication ban — and was sentenced in Newmarket on August 22. Moore was granted three years of pre-sentence credit and will serve 10 years in prison.
According to court documents, A.T. was ambushed in Vaughan after meeting a friend to discuss cryptocurrency credit cards. A man referred to as “Orange Hoodie Guy” (still unidentified) grabbed her as she returned to her Porsche Macan. A passerby who tried to intervene was shot at three times but not hit.
A.T. was driven to a house in Barrie, tied to a chair, stripped naked, and repeatedly tortured by multiple assailants, including a youth known as S.M., who was convicted last year and is awaiting sentencing. The attackers burned her hands with a lighter, bashed her with tools, and ran a fentanyl-filled syringe along her body while threatening to inject her.
“They kept asking for crypto, in particular $1 million,” the court heard. “They told A.T. that the syringe was full of heroin and they could kill her with one injection.”
On one occasion, Moore allegedly threatened to shoot A.T. if she did not perform sexual acts. After hours of abuse, she escaped through a back door and sought help from a neighbour, who called 911.
In a harrowing victim impact statement, A.T. said she lives in constant fear: “I feel like I have a target on my back, like someone is always watching, waiting for the right moment. My heart races at the thought of being approached, followed or taken.”
The mastermind behind the plot remains unidentified, and investigators have not determined who ordered the attack or why A.T. was targeted.