Is a sexually abusive kidnapper guilty of one or two crimes? Two, said the Supreme Court. State v. Cruz-Pena, 243 N.J. 342 (2020).

At approximately 2 a.m. on May 22, 2014, C.M., who sold sex to support her heroin addiction, joined her fellow sex worker and two males on the porch of an abandoned house. In the beginning they all consumed alcohol and drugs. However, for the next four-to-five hours, while on the porch, defendant subjected C.M. to horrific sexual and physical abuse.