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Laura Brahaney has finally apologized for her weeklong trail of gratuitous violence that terrorized and later haunted three men.

Her first victim, a 25-year-old man with autism, was kidnapped from his home in September 2014 after a violent home invasion. He was bound, gagged and beaten. Brahaney and her crew looted the place, swiping computer gear, a TV, collectible coins, a safe and even the vacuum cleaner.

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They kept the victim hunched over in a dog crate for more than 24 hours in Brahaney’s basement. He was denied access to the washroom, and they scrubbed his skin with a wire barbecue brush, then poured gasoline and bleach on his fresh wounds.

Brahaney, 29, beat him so badly she messed up her knuckles. (She took a picture of her knuckles and sent it to a friend, saying it happened from beating someone.)

When ransom demands failed, his captors drove him to the woods, where he was choked unconscious and left for dead. But the young man came around and made it out of the woods and to the safety of a nearby home. He had injuries all over his body, was muddy and wearing only underwear.