Darren Sheridan was just 19 years old when he was kidnapped, tortured, and left to die by a man named Alan Baker — who now identifies as Sarah Jane Baker, a radical trans activist.

Baker drew numerous headlines after a recent speech calling for violence against biological women — and Sheridan, now 52 years old, recently spoke out about the trauma he suffered at the hands of Baker and two other men, one of whom was Baker’s brother.

“I was gonna come here and be really fluffy and be really nice and say yeah be really lovely and queer and gay,” Baker said at a recent PRIDE event. “Nah, if you see a TERF, punch them in the f****** face.”

TERF — a derogatory acronym for Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist — is liberally applied by the trans community, and used to label any woman who does not automatically accept or celebrate the inclusion of biological males in women’s spaces.

Sheridan responded to the headlines, saying, “‘I think it is extreme to have those kind of views. I know she has anger issues but there’s still no right to say ‘punch somebody in the face.'”

“I think if people disagree with other people about issues it’s much better to have a debate about it then threaten people. By telling the crowd to punch a TERF, she clearly still has anger issues and is a dangerous, violent person,'” Sheridan continued.

Sheridan told The Daily Mail about what he suffered at Baker’s hands, noting that even after the case went to court and Baker had admitted to committing the crime, the only regret Baker had was “not being able to break” Sheridan.

“I was forcibly taken at knifepoint to a van and bundled into the back. I couldn’t see what was going on as I was face down and there were no windows. I was beaten in the van. I think there were two of them doing it,” Sheridan said. “I had no idea where I was going. They took me to a flat and led me inside where I was beaten and tortured for 12 hours.”

“They were punching me and burning me with cigarettes. They were stubbing them out on my neck and I still have the scars from that to this day. I was forced to perform oral sex on them at knifepoint,” Sheridan continued, adding that his captors had talked openly about how they might kill him.

“I was made to eat cigarette butts and curry powder,” he said. “It was such a sustained attack I became numb to the pain. The last thing I remember was being tied up with electricity wire and dumped in an airing cupboard. They carried me in and just left me there. It was dark and silent. I couldn’t hear anything.”

“The wire was tied around my feet, my hands and my neck in such a way that if I moved it tightened around my neck,” Sheridan said, explaining that he eventually stopped trying to get free out of fear that he would strangle himself. “I was helpless and I blacked out.”

After years of therapy, Sheridan says he’s put most of the experience behind him — but he did hear that Baker had gone through a gender transition while in prison.

“I’m surprised that he is doing so much for the trans community. I’m surprised that he would put other people before him,” Sheridan said of Baker’s newfound activism. “I don’t get much involved in politics and stuff like that. I try to keep away from it.”

A homeless woman was found dead in a 12-acre California park last weekend after a local landscaper called authorities minutes after fatally mowing over her while she slept in overgrown vegetation.

Christine Chavez, 27, was pronounced dead July 8 at Beard Brook Park in Modesto, California, by local police, who said an unidentified employee with Grover Landscape Services, Inc. driving a John Deere tractor with a pull-behind mower accidentally ran over her while cutting the grass.

Modesto Police Department spokeswoman Sharon Bear told the Modesto Bee that the crew member was working in the park when he “noticed a body in the grass he had already made a pass through,” adding it was unknown if the landscaper involved in the “terrible accident” did not see the woman sleeping in the field without a tent.

Police reportedly completed an investigation stating it appears to have been an accident, and no charges have been filed.

Members of Chavez’s family described the area where Chavez died as parched with overgrown weeds that reached just below knee level.

Her father, Christopher Chavez, said he recovered “many pieces” of his daughter’s body from the park. He told ABC10 that law enforcement “didn’t pick up everything.”

“I went there, and I still have pieces of bones — like pieces of her skull and some teeth,” Chavez told The Modesto Bee. “It’s terrible.”

Grover Landscaping Services told Fox 40 the company fully cooperated with law enforcement authorities during the investigation.

“In a dry, overgrown area, our operator discovered the body of a woman impacted by the pull-behind mower, at which time he contacted the Modesto Police Department,” the statement reads.

“We are deeply saddened by these events. Our hearts and sympathies go out to her friends and family. Grover is providing counseling services to the operator due to this traumatic experience,” it continued.

The landscaping contractor had been performing weed abatement and fire prevention services for E. & J. Gallo Winery, the largest wine company in the world, which acquired the Beard Brook Park property located nearby less than 24 hours before Chavez’s death.

The city of Modesto reportedly had swapped land with the winery after months of negotiations. Beard Brook Park, which was once a designated homeless encampment, was traded for waterfront property held by Gallo that the city planned to transform into an estimated $6.3 million three-quarter-mile riverwalk in the Tuolumne River Regional Park.

Gallo spokeswoman Krista Noonan confirmed the incident in a statement involving the hired contractor, adding the winery fully cooperated with the investigation.

“Gallo acquired the Beard Brook Park property in Modesto on Friday, July 7, 2023. On Saturday, July 8, 2023, a landscaping contractor was hired to perform weed abatement and fire prevention services. There was an accident at approximately 12:00 p.m. involving the contractor’s tractor and an individual who was not visible and laying in a tall, weeded area,” the statement reads, in part, according to The Modesto Bee.

“Gallo expresses its sincere condolences to the family of the victim,” it continued.

Chavez’s death marks the second fatality involving a homeless individual and a contractor crew.

In August 2018, a Caltrans employee operating heavy machinery along the southbound side of Highway 99 rolled over 32-year-old Shannon Bigley while clearing a homeless encampment. Bigley reportedly was asleep when the driver removed the presumed unoccupied belongings.