On Thanksgiving, be thankful your family is not this dysfunctional.
A Queens woman was arrested for allegedly kidnapping her older, developmentally disabled cousin and forcing him to confess to raping her 15 years ago when she was a child.
Carline Gaspard, 21, enlisted her brother Gady-Carl Gaspard and her boyfriend Alvet Nero in the bizarre abduction of John Tanis by knifepoint last week outside his Cambria Heights home in Queens, according to court papers.
The trio allegedly bound Tanis’ hands with duct tape and threatened to kill him if he didn’t admit to attacking Carline at a family gathering when she was 6.
“This is still my family, God Bless them,” Tanis’ father, Felix Tanis told the Post in an interview outside their 113th Road home.
“But things will never be the same. We were planning a big Thanksgiving, no more, no more,” the weeping dad said.
His niece and nephew recorded the coerced confession on an iPhone that shows Tanis bound inside the car with his cousins yelling at him.
The video is what ultimately got the vengeful family members busted.
“They denied what happened while at the precinct until Jon told the detective to check his phone and that’s when Gady confessed to the police,” his dad, Felix Tanis, told The Post.
They were charged with kidnapping, assault, unlawful imprisonment, criminal possession of a weapon and robbery for swiping $17 from their disabled kin’s pocket for a trip to McDonald’s.
The footage shows the men brutally smashing Tanis’ legs with a baseball bat while Carline sprays perfume into his eyes then bashes a brick into his face, according to the legal documents.
Felix Tanis, Carline’s uncle and Jon’s father, said the rape accusation was a lie.
“This is nonsense, that never happened,” Felix Tanis said.
“At 6 her mother should have been the first to know something was wrong with my niece during bath time. Why is this now coming out?”
He explained the family drama behind the alleged attack.
Carline had been kicked out of her parents house and had been living with her cousin, the alleged rapist, and his dad Felix for most of the past year.
Four months ago Carline started telling her family about the alleged rape, which her uncle believes was a sympathy ploy so she could move back home. Carline did not report incident at the time.
The special victims unit is investigating the rape claim, according to police.
Felix said his son was born premature and did “not develop like you and me.”
A Queens judge let them go on low bails of not more than $2,500. They’re back in court in December.
Additional reporting by Kirstan Conley and Julia Marsh