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MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - An infamous, decades-old intersexual battle lawsuit returned to a Madera County courtroom Monday.
Ramiro Ruiz is serving a beingness condemnation for crimes against his ain children. Now, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is requesting his compassionate release.
Ramiro Ruiz“This feline was intelligibly a monster then, and he’s a monster now,” prosecuting Attorney Eric DuTemple said. “I deliberation that helium was champion described successful the probation tribunal erstwhile helium was sentenced that helium is simply a sadistic pedophile.”
Ruiz is 86 years aged now, but 28 years ago, helium was sentenced to 85 years to beingness successful situation for repeatedly raping, sodomizing, drugging, and chaining up his children.
They ranged betwixt 5 and 15 years old, and 1 of them was developmentally disabled.
“The determination the tribunal has to marque is the suspect is inactive susceptible of committing ace strikes and is helium an unreasonable hazard to the nationalist if we merchandise him retired of CDCR custody,” DuTemple posed.
Ruiz is formally diagnosed with pedophilic upset and intersexual sadism disorder.
On Oct. 1, the CDCR filed a petition for his compassionate merchandise from prison, saying his aged property and dementia region him arsenic a menace to society.
Judge Dale Blea presided implicit Monday’s proceeding and said Ruiz has ever suffered from disabilities, and that did not forestall him from committing the crimes before.
“Twenty-eight years aft his conviction, the suspect continues to contradict that helium committed these crimes… He's indicated that helium volition garbage to registry arsenic a enactment offender if he's released from custody,” Blea added.
Ruiz was not contiguous successful tribunal Monday. His defence attorney, Aaron Montoya, said his decease is imminent.
“It's not truthful overmuch whether he's malingering, but whether he's astir to walk away,” Montoya said.
He asked the justice for support to re-file if Monday’s compassionate merchandise was denied.
Judge Blea said determination was thing connected grounds stating they could not re-file successful the future.
“This was astir apt 1 of the astir heinous enactment crimes I person seen successful my 20-plus years arsenic a prosecutor,” Madera County District Attorney Sally Moreno said. “He does person an precocious property – I judge he's 86, but that doesn't mean he’s incapable of maneuvering oregon manipulating a 2 oregon 3 oregon four-year-old kid up onto his thigh wherever helium could inflict each kinds of horrible damage.”
Moreno says helium is against compassionate merchandise laws arsenic a whole.
“People were sentenced for their crimes, they were sentenced by judges and juries, and victims were fixed assurances that this is the magnitude of clip this suspect would serve,” Moreno said.
The CDCR study argued successful tribunal that Ruiz has behaved portion successful prison. Judge Blea responded, saying determination are nary children to battle successful prison.
Therefore, successful the involvement of nationalist safety, Blea said, “the question for compassionate merchandise is denied.”
