A suspect in a recent child sexual assault investigation was arrested again, after another victim came forward following reports about his alleged crimes earlier this month, according to authorities.
Anthony Joseph Ramon, 25, of Gilroy, was arrested by Morgan Hill Police on July 9 on suspicion that he sexually assaulted a 10-year-old girl at a YMCA summer program at the city’s Aquatics Center. Ramon was a counselor at the camp, and the victim was enrolled as a camp attendee.
Later on July 9, police received another report that another 10-year-old girl had been sexually assaulted by Ramon. Detectives scheduled an interview with the child and learned the incident had occurred at the same location, also during a YMCA summer camp, MHPD said in a press release.
On July 16, MHPD officers obtained an arrest warrant for Ramon for alleged lewd and lascivious acts on a minor. Later that afternoon, Morgan Hill Police took Ramon into custody without incident.
Ramon was booked at Santa Clara County Jail on $200,000 bail, police said. He posted bail and was released from custody shortly after booking.
“The Morgan Hill Police Department encourages parents and guardians to have open conversations with their children about safe touch and inappropriate adult behavior and to report any suspected abuse or unwanted contact to law enforcement immediately,” the press release says.
Anyone with information about this can call Detective Sergeant Sean Bayard at 408.607.3032 or email at se*********@***********ca.gov.
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We hold murder suspects without bail because taking a life is considered the ultimate harm. But what about those who destroy a child’s innocence? Abuse and exploitation can leave wounds that last a lifetime. A child’s safety, trust, and sense of self can be taken away forever. If the law recognizes the value of a life, it must also recognize the devastating impact of stealing a child’s innocence.
The release on bond of an individual accused of committing lewd and lascivious acts against a minor presents an unacceptable risk to the safety of children, the integrity of the judicial process, and the protection of the community. Allegations involving the sexual exploitation or abuse of a child represent some of the most serious offenses addressed by our justice system and require careful consideration of the potential harm that may result from release. The court’s foremost responsibility must be to protect vulnerable victims, prevent further harm, and uphold public confidence in the administration of justice. Given the severity of these allegations and the potential danger posed, individuals charged with such offenses should not be permitted to return to the community through release on bond while awaiting resolution of their case.
Early-life abuse, sexual or otherwise, and/or chronic neglect left unhindered typically causes the brain to improperly develop. It can readily be the starting point of a life in which the brain uncontrollably releases potentially damaging levels of inflammatory stress hormones and chemicals, even in otherwise non-stressful daily routines. It amounts to non-physical-impact brain damage in the form of CPTSD.
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Among other dysfunctions, it has been described as an emotionally tumultuous daily existence, indeed an almost-continuous discomforting expectation or anticipation of ‘the other shoe dropping’. And it can make every day a mental ordeal, unless the turmoil is prescription and/or illicitly medicated.
Therefore, the wellbeing of all children needs to be of genuine importance to everyone — and not just concern over what other parents’ children might or will cost us as future criminals or costly cases of government care, etcetera — regardless of how well our own developing children are doing.
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Mindlessly ‘minding our own business’ often proves humanly devastating. Largely owing to the Only If It’s In My Own Back Yard mindset, however, the prevailing collective attitude (implicit or subconscious) basically follows: ‘Why should I care — my kids are alright?’ or (the even more lamely self-serving) ‘What’s in it for me as a taxpayer?’
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As a moral rule, being caring, competent, loving parents — and, not to mention, knowledgeable about factual child-development science — should matter most when deciding to procreate. Afterall, a physically and mentally safe future should be every child’s fundamental right, especially when considering the very troubled world into which they never asked to enter.
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Yet, many people still hold a misplaced yet strong sense of entitlement when it comes to misperceiving and treating children largely as obedient property to use or abuse.
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“It has been said that if child abuse and neglect were to disappear today, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual would shrink to the size of a pamphlet in two generations, and the prisons would empty. Or, as Bernie Siegel, MD, puts it, quite simply, after half a century of practicing medicine, ‘I have become convinced that our number-one public health problem is our childhood’.”
—Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology and How You Can Heal
I’ve noticed over the decades of my news-media consumption (beginning long before the era of woke gender-identity pandering by the news media) that when victims of abuse/assault, sexual or otherwise, are girls their gender is readily reported as such; however, when they’re boys, they’re usually referred to gender-neutrally as children.
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It’s as though, as a news product made to sell the best, the child victims being female is somehow more shocking than if male. Also, I’ve heard and read news-media references to a 19-year-old female victim as a ‘girl’, while (in an unrelated case) a 17-year-old male perpetrator was described as a ‘man’.
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One wonders whether such lopsided gender referencing in hard-news coverage reveal the gender bias of the general news consumership (which includes me), since news-media tend to sell us what we want or are willing to consume thus buy?
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Meantime, male victims of sexual harassment, abuse or assault are more hesitant or unlikely than female victims to report their offenders. They refuse to open up and/or ask for help for fear of being perceived by peers and others as weak or non-masculine.
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The mindset maintains, albeit perhaps subconsciously: Men can take care of themselves, and boys are basically little men. It’s the mentality that might help explain why the author of Childhood Disrupted was only able to include one male among its six interviewed subjects, there presumably being such a small pool of ACE-traumatized males willing to formally tell his own story of traumatic childhood adversity.