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This disturbed dad has been derailed.

Cops have arrested a man captured on video apparently abusing his sons in a Bronx train station earlier this month, police said.

Joshua Gilead was charged with two counts of aggravated family offense and two counts of acting in a manner injurious to a child less than 17, the NYPD said.

Gilead, 35, was taken into custody Friday at 8 p.m. in the Bronx, police said.

A video clip captured Gilead sitting between his two sons, 7 and 9, on a bench at the Fordham Road/Jerome Avenue subway station around 9 p.m. Jan 22. He seems to shout at both children before punching one twice and grabbing and shaking the other around by the hair.

Gilead appeared Saturday afternoon in a video arraignment before Judge Efrain Alvarado, who ordered the defendant held on $10,000 cash bash/$25,000 bond and issued temporary orders of protection requiring Gilead to stay away from his family.

Just hours after Gilead was recorded in the subway with his kids, officials with the city’s Administration for Children’s Services visited the family’s Bronx apartment and allegedly found Gilead had “beaten his younger son with a belt,” prosecutors said. The children were taken to a hospital. Gilead was arrested but then released on his own recognizance, according to authorities.

Gilead violated an order of protection when he returned to the family residence Thursday “pounding on the door,” and on Friday, he was spotted by the building super and the boys’ mother “walking up and down the block before finally surrendering,” prosecutor Sean Doddy said.

An agitated Gilead continuously tried to interrupt the proceeding by asking if he could say something, talking over the judge and prosecutor, holding up a note to the camera, raising his hand as if in a classroom, and alternately standing up and sitting down.

“I was out on bail already,” Gilead declared at one point before the judge instructed his court-appointed attorney to tell Gilead not to speak during the proceeding or he would be muted.

The shocking five-minute video in which Gilead appears to hit his kids, which was posted to Facebook by a community advocate, shows the Bronx man “alternating between his two sons and subjecting htem to violence while the other waits for their turn,” Doddy said.

“The defendant was sitting between his two sons, first striking the older son repeatedly in his neck, his chest, his shoulder, and his stomach. At points almost knocking this child off of the bench,” said Doddy, who noted the child could be heard ” gasping for air and crying out in pain.”

Gilead then “turns to the younger of the two sons, grabbing the child by the hair, and yanking on his neck, with such force, the child lifts off the bench, and you can hear the child not only crying for help, but crying in pain,” the prosecutor added.


  Joshua Gilead is charged with two counts of aggravated family offense and two counts of acting in a matter injurious to a child less than 17, the NYPD said. Dan Herrick Joshua Gilead is charged with two counts of aggravated family offense and two counts of acting in a matter injurious to a child less than 17, the NYPD said. Dan Herrick

Doddy maintained the evidence shows “violence that is almost unimaginable in those five minutes. For those little boys it is not a small occurrence, but a reality of their daily lives.”

Gilead has almost 30 misdemeanor convictions, many for “violence that is directed at members of his family,” has a “history of failure to abide by court orders” and the current allegations were “serious and horrific,” said the prosecutor, who had sought $30,000 cash bail/$100,000 bond.

The prior convictions include the assault of the mother of the two boys in 2010 and criminal contempt against the same woman in 2014, Doddy said.

Gilead’s attorney, Michael Murphy, unsuccessfully sought to have his client released without bail, countering, “My client actually turns himself in. He went to the police precinct himself. He came in on his own volition to face these charges.”

Gilead told PIX11 News he needs help.

”I punched him in the face, I punched him in the arm and I grabbed his hair because he doesn’t like it,” Gilead said, according to the report, which added that Gilead said he was “stressed out, that he struggles with mental illness.”

Gilead apparently admitted he’d been drinking on the day he turned on his two boys, according to the report.

Community advocate Tony Herbert posted the shocking video to Facebook Wednesday, and said in a later post that the man who initially filmed it — who was on his way to pick up his own son from chemotherapy treatment — filed a report with the police.

The accused dad has a history of domestic violence incidents involving his kids, authorities said.

Gilead was also arrested Jan. 23 for allegedly being “physical with his family” — and subsequently released.

The children were in their mother’s custody as of Thursday, according to cops.

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