Posted on 10/09/2010 8:37:07 AM PDT by Willie Green
Oct. 9, 2010 - HAMILTON — A 15-year-old Liberty Twp. boy convicted of raping a 64-year-old woman was sentenced to 28 years in prison Friday in Butler County Common Pleas Court.
Alexis Ramirez, a former Monroe Local Schools student, sobbed and stared blankly at the floor as Judge Keith Spaeth handed down his ruling.
“I hate myself,” Ramirez said prior to sentencing. “People look at me as a monster. They have every right to.
“I’m guilty and whatever you give me, I’ll do it,” he said.
Ramirez could have been handed a maximum sentence of 83 years in prison for the nine felony charges. The teen, who is an illegal immigrant from Mexico, will likely face deportation when he is released from prison.
Ramirez’s victim, Phyllis Mays of Liberty Twp., who agreed to be named, and her family sat quietly in the back of the courtroom during the proceeding.
Josh Colon, a pastor who translated for Ramirez’s Spanish-speaking mother, Ava Ramirez, quoted her as saying: “Physically, our heart hurts for what he did.”
Ramirez was convicted Aug. 26 on charges of felonious assault, aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary, two counts of kidnapping, three counts of rape and tampering with evidence. He was also classified as a Tier III sex offender, which requires him to register with the sheriff’s office for the rest of his life.
Armed with a pellet rifle, Ramirez, who was 14 at the time, attacked Mays in the early morning hours of Jan. 11 after storming into her residence in the Countryside Mobile Home Community. According to police, he then beat her, raped her and forced her to drive to an ATM machine to get money.
When Spaeth asked the teen what motivated him to commit such a brutal act, Ramirez said he didn’t know.
“I thought she would be scared and give me all her money,” Ramirez said. “I don’t know what made me do all that.”
Son: Attack still has devastating effect on victim, family
The image is still fresh in Jon Feltner’s mind: Kneeling down on his hands and knees, scrubbing his mother’s blood from the floor of her Liberty Twp. mobile home where she had just been brutally beaten and raped by then 14-year-old Alexis Ramirez.
“I couldn’t believe the amount of blood that was shed,” Feltner said during a sentencing hearing for Ramirez, who was convicted in August of raping 64-year-old Phyllis Mays, who agreed to be identified.
The impact of Ramirez’s actions continue to have a devastating effect on his mother and their family, Feltner said.
“I have no faith at all there’s (anything) that can be done with Mr. Ramirez based on what I’ve seen with my own eyes,” he said.[snip]http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/crime/i-hate-myself-says-teen-rapist-sentenced-to-28-years-in-prison-971509.html
U.S. Department of State Foreign Affairs Manual Volume 7- Consular Affairs.
Page 17 (see 1133.2-2)
(CT:CON-317; 12-08-2009)
a. Section 301 as Effective on December 24, 1952: When enacted in 1952, section 301 required a U.S. citizen married to an alien to have been physically present in the United States for ten years, including five after reaching the age of fourteen, to transmit citizenship to foreign-born children. The ten-year transmission requirement remained in effect from 12:01 a.m. EDT December 24, 1952, through midnight November 13, 1986, and still is applicable to persons born during that period.
As originally enacted, section 301(a)(7) stated: Section 301. (a) The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth: (7) a person born outside the geographical limits of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a citizen of the United States who, prior to the birth of such person, was physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions for a period or periods totaling not less than ten years, at least five of which were after attaining the age of fourteen years: Provided, That any periods of honorable service in the Armed Forces of the United States by such citizen parent may be included in computing the physical presence requirements of this paragraph.
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