The New Jersey train conductor just busted for allegedly horribly abusing a girl for years had been hailed for job heroics in February, it emerged — along with new details about her escape.
Branndon Mosley, 41, was heralded for his actions during a Feb. 6 SEPTA train fire — weeks before he and his girlfriend were charged May 11 with confining and abusing the girl, who was 11 when the torture started and is now 18, according to a report.
The child was forced to live in a dog crate for a year and at one point had only a bucket for a toilet in the couple’s “squalid” animal-filled home, Camden County prosecutors said.
The girl’s relationship to the pair was not immediately known.
Mosley and gal pal Brenda Spencer, 38, both of Gloucester Township are accused of physically and mentally abusing the girl before she finally escaped to the house of a neighbor who helped get her to safety. Mosley also is accused of sexually abusing the child.
“She told me just recently that they cut her hair and shaved her head for punishment,” the neighbor who helped rescue the child told Fox 29.
“She said they kept her in the dog crate. It was horrific, it was disgraceful,” said the resident, who only wanted to go by Susan.
“We were both in tears, me and my son. We couldn’t believe it.”
The sickening allegations surfaced just weeks after Mosley jumped into action when a train traveling from west Trenton, NJ, to Newark, Del., caught on fire near the Crum Lynne Station in Pennsylvania in February, Fox 29 reported.
All 325 passengers and four crew members on board evacuated safely, officials said.
Mosley was honored by SEPTA for his actions in the incident, with Fox 29 obtaining a photo of the emotionless conductor holding up a framed certificate.
SEPTA did not immediately return an email or call seeking comment Sunday.
The alleged abuser has been with the transit agency for 18 years and has since been taken off duty, a SEPTA spokesperson told the station.
Mosley and Spencer were charged with first-degree kidnapping, second-degree aggravated assault, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and a slew of other criminal counts.
Mosley is also separately facing charged of first-degree aggravated sexual assault and second-degree sexual assault, prosecutors said.
“I don’t know what to think because you know the people next door. You talk to them, you never know what’s happening in there,” the neighbor, Susan, told the station.
“It is so unreal to me to know what was happening right next door to me.”
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