A reputed member of a Huntington street gang was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursday for the kidnapping, gang beating and robbery of a teenager last year in an abandoned psychiatric facility.

Josue "Shrek" Zepeda Padilla, 28, of Huntington Station, pleaded guilty in July to luring the boy to the Huntington LIRR station with 4 other members of the MS-13-affiliated street gang — the Huntington Criminal Locates Salvatrucha — on Jan. 6, 2024.

At the train station, prosecutors said the group surrounded the 15-year-old, took his money and then piled on, punching and kicking him on the ground.

The group, including Zepeda Padilla , then forced the teen into a car and drove him to the defunct Pilgrim Psychiatric Center in Brentwood where they put a hood over his head, dragged him to an

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