NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- A Long Island man was sentenced for the 2020 death of his pregnant girlfriend, whose body he dumped on the side of a Queens expressway, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced.
Goey Charles, 33, of Uniondale, was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years to life in prison.
He had been convicted on Tuesday, Nov. 14 of murder in the second degree.
Video surveillance footage showed that at about 2:50 a.m. on Oct. 23, 2020, Charles pulled a white Dodge Challenger registered to his girlfriend, 29-year-old Vanessa Pierre over at 216-07 Horace Harding Expressway in Bayside.
At approximately 3:30 a.m., Charles exited from the driver's seat of the car and went into the backseat, where his girlfriend was sitting. When a light in the vehicle illuminated, the victim, who was pregnant, could be seen moving, officials said.
About an hour later, Charles exited the vehicle, dragged Pierre out of the car and left her on the sidewalk then got back in the car and drove away.
At around 6 a.m., an MTA bus driver saw Pierre on the ground, unresponsive, with a pair of gray sweatpants wrapped around her neck.
Emergency responders arrived on the scene and pronounced Pierre dead.
"We asked for the maximum sentence because of the brutality of the crime and the defendant's remorseless discarding of the lifeless body of his girlfriend, the woman who was soon to be the mother of his child," District Attorney Katz said. "The sentence does not bring Vanessa back, but it achieves justice in her memory."
