A mild-mannered grocery store clerk once more wears a Superman ring, but it’s on a different finger than the one thugs had threatened to carve off during a violent 2014 robbery and kidnapping.

The 26-year-old victim survived a cruel online honey trap that saw him held for ransom in a dog cage before his wary tormentors choked him half to death and abandoned him in the wilds of Eastern Ontario.

Armed with a replacement ring on his right hand, he was in court Wednesday to see a measure of justice meted out to Traevonne Mattis, a teenage robber who became the autistic man’s jailor during the September 2014 events.

Mattis, 19, got a seven-year stretch in the pen.

“I think we’re both pleased,” the victim’s mother said outside the court.

“He still suffers.”

Mattis pleaded guilty in May to charges including forcible confinement and conspiracy to commit robbery.

According to an agreed statement of facts, a foxy female Facebooker had befriended the victim in the summer of 2014, hitting him up for cash while feigning a romantic interest in him.

It was a long con: In the fall, a female co-accused pledged to meet the clerk for a tryst at his apartment but instead let in Mattis and another man who is still before the courts.

They held a knife to the man’s throat, blindfolded and beat him, then looted his apartment, the court heard. Someone threatened to cut off his finger if he didn’t hand over his Superman ring.

His flat cleared of valuables, they dragged him out to a gas station and forced him to make a $300,000 ransom call to his father, who couldn’t be reached.

So they drove him to a Cumberland flat and caged him in the basement.

Mattis admitted to being present but denied actively participating in the man’s torment.

The clerk spent two days in hell before the gang crammed him back in a car and drove towards Toronto, pausing near Gananoque to dump him in the forest.

Mattis insisted that an accomplice choked the victim into semi-consciousness before stripping and abandoning him; the victim, blindfolded at the time, was in no position to say who did what.

“Honest to God, I thought he was dead,” his mother said, recalling the bloody chaos the robbers left at her son’s apartment.

“It’s an ordeal that I will never forgive or forget.”

With credit for time spent in pre-sentence custody, Mattis has 5-1/2 years left to serve.

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