Former college adjunct professor gets 8 years in prison for sexually abusing women from El Salvador

US Attorney Danielle R. Sassoon said the maltreatment occurred implicit a decade. Prosecutors had requested that Ramos beryllium sentenced to implicit 13 years successful prison. Prosecutors said Ramos, who was calved successful El Salvador and maintained relationships with household and friends successful the San Miguel area, groomed the women to marque the travel by expressing interest for their families and by sending them gifts and money.

But erstwhile they arrived, they were raped by Ramos, who told 2 of them that helium had “brought them to the United States truthful that helium could person enactment with them whenever helium wanted,” prosecutors wrote successful tribunal papers. “And that is what helium did — sexually abusing and raping each unfortunate again and again.”

Prosecutors said helium besides threatened to crook them implicit to migration authorities to compel them to person enactment with him. They said helium archetypal enticed a 25-year-old pistillate to travel to the US successful 2013 oregon 2014, portion a 2nd woman, 27, came successful November 2015.

The third, they said, was 18 erstwhile she was persuaded to travel to the US successful March 2017. Authorities said Ramos convinced the women that they would person acquisition and different opportunities successful the United States.

The indictment said the past 2 women yet escaped Ramos. City College has said Ramos hasn’t worked astatine the schoolhouse since 2009.

In tribunal papers, prosecutors said Ramos was “a serial intersexual abuser who smuggled 3 susceptible young women into the United States to usage them for his ain intersexual gratification.” They added: “The suspect targeted these Victims due to the fact that helium knew that they were mediocre and had constricted acquisition and occupation opportunities successful El Salvador.

He groomed them done gifts and benignant words, starring them to judge that helium cared astir them and would assistance them amended their lives. ”Jeremy Schneider, a lawyer for Ramos who declined to remark aft the sentencing, said successful tribunal papers that his lawsuit deserved leniency aft surviving successful “hellish conditions” astatine a national lockup since his apprehension 17 months ago.

He said Ramos lived the archetypal 13 years of his beingness successful El Salvador successful a warfare portion wherever immoderate of his puerility friends were killed earlier helium was brought to the US by a quality smuggler.

After graduating from precocious schoolhouse astatine property 16, helium yet earned his doctorate successful biophysics earlier moving arsenic an adjunct prof astatine assorted colleges successful New York City, too moving arsenic a mechanic and electrician.

Ramos, who volition beryllium deported aft helium serves his sentence, is “deeply remorseful,” Schneider said.