When Constance Marten fell pregnant for the fifth time with Mark Gordon, they were determined to keep the baby. Over the previous four years, a family court had removed their first four children from their care a decision the parents tried to claim was a miscarriage of justice driven by a corrupt social services system. So they hatched a plan to carefully conceal her pregnancy from the world and delivered baby Victoria in secret in a holiday cottage in Northumberland on Christmas Eve 2022.
The fatal crash happened around 4:25 a.m. on October 17, 2021, when Nolasco sped southbound in a white Mercedes on Third Avenue. NYPD officers attempted to pull him over, but he refused to stop, running multiple red lights as police chased him at speeds up to 80 miles per hour. At the intersection of 60th Street, Nolasco blew through another red light and T-boned a Nissan Altima driven by 42-year-old James Lopez, who was driving lawfully through the intersection.
Imani Williams, 36, was arraigned on Friday on second-degree manslaughter, leaving a scene of the accident, criminally negligent homicide and reckless driving charges, for the fatal June 5, 2022, hit-and-run.
The prosecution alleges Victoria died from hypothermia or was smothered while co-sleeping in a 'flimsy' tent after they took her off-grid in a bid to stop her from being taken into care.