He was just trying to help:
"Ex-teacher’s aide, 85, arraigned on indecent assault charges; Man freed on bail of $500" by Eric Moskowitz, Globe Staff November 24, 2014
Two vastly different pictures emerged of Charles B. Ramsay Jr. in Roxbury District Court Monday: one as a classroom aide who allegedly groped a child twice, and another as a family man and MBTA retiree who sought classroom work in his 80s to give back to young people, and a churchgoer at Roxbury’s St. Cyprian’s Episcopal Church, where Ramsay, a Korean War veteran, has been a fixture in the choir and the men’s fellowship.
Seeking higher bail, Assistant Suffolk District Attorney Gerry Cahill said another classroom aide at the Higginson/Lewis K-8 school in Roxbury spotted Ramsay rubbing an 11-year-old girl between her thighs on Nov. 13. The aide “repositioned himself to get a better look and was shocked at what he saw,” Cahill said.
After the aide reported that allegation to the school, police interviewed him the next day and the girl the following week. The 11-year-old told investigators that Ramsay touched “my privates” and “rubbed my butt and was being fresh,” according to a detective’s report.
The girl demonstrated the motion, and said Ramsay had touched her on two different days, Nov. 10 and Nov. 13. Police arrested and charged Ramsay Nov. 21, the day after they spoke to the girl. A magistrate released him on $500 bail, to appear in court for Monday’s arraignment.
Citing the accounts of the aide as well as the girl, the prosecutor asked Judge Kenneth Fiandaca to raise bail to $5,000 and order Ramsay to stay away from the child and her family, wear a GPS monitoring device, and keep at least 1,000 feet from any school, playground, park, library, toy store, or “other location with children congregating.”
“The reason for this request and those conditions are the facts and strength of the case,” Cahill said, acknowledging that the 85-year-old Ramsay had no previous record.
Ramsay worked for 32 years for the MBTA, rising from bus driver to inspector-supervisor, Dilday said. Records show he retired in 1991. He worked off and on for the School Department as a lunchroom monitor and then a classroom aide from 2001 until Nov. 14, when he resigned, a Boston Public Schools spokesman said.
With Ramsay standing silently before the judge in a neat blue suit, fingers laced in front of him, his defense lawyer described him as an older man in fragile health — a survivor of open-heart surgery, high blood pressure, and glaucoma surgery on both eyes — and a community pillar who poses no public danger or flight risk.
In arguing against the higher bail, Dilday also pointed out Ramsay’s wife and two daughters, holding hands in the gallery, as well as three women from his church who had come to support him.
The judge agreed to maintain bail at $500 and set the keep-away order at 300 feet — in Ramsay’s Dorchester neighborhood, almost every block is within 1,000 feet of a school, playground, library, preschool, or park — but otherwise approved the prosecutor’s conditions.
Ramsay avoided reporters after the arraignment by leaving through a side door with his family.
The girl’s father, who sat quietly in the courtroom, declined to comment afterward but said earlier that he was upset Ramsay had not been arrested immediately when the aide who said he witnessed the alleged assault came forward. He said his daughter, who has autism, was traumatized and has been transferred from Higginson/Lewis, the only school she had known....
That really drops the depravity meter down a bit.
He's due back in court Jan. 7 , and his lawyer told reporters, “He’s not a pedophile. I repeat, he’s not a pedophile.”
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More trauma:
"Man held in 2 East Boston sexual assaults; Victims also robbed of cash" by Peter Schworm, Globe Staff November 24, 2014
The East Boston woman had just returned home from work early Saturday when a stranger followed her into her building’s front hallway. She tried to close the door, but he pulled out a long knife and held it to her throat.
“Give me money,” he said in broken English, the woman told police.
She gave him the $2 she had, but he would not let her leave. He sexually assaulted her before fleeing, authorities said.
Selvan Eduardo Hernandez-Ortiz, a 20-year-old who lived nearby, was arrested shortly after the attack and was charged Monday with assaulting and robbing the woman. He was also charged in a similar assault earlier this month.
Hernandez-Ortiz, who is originally from Guatemala and does not speak English, pleaded not guilty to the charges, which include aggravated rape, armed robbery, and indecent assault.
Why did illegal immigrants just come to mind?
His lawyer, Kelly Cusack, said her client “adamantly denies the allegations” and did not admit to the crimes....
It's possible considering all the injustices that are constantly being revealed regarding AmeriKa's JU$tU$ $y$tem.
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Alemany down the memory hole, 'eh?
Wor$t assault yet:
"FDA stops short of ban on fibroid removal tool" by Deborah KotzGlobe Staff November 25, 2014
The US Food and Drug Administration issued stringent new warnings Monday against the use of a medical power tool to pulverize uteruses or fibroid growths amid concerns the device could spread hidden cancers.
But the agency stopped short of banning the tool, known as a morcellator, prompting criticism from a prominent Boston surgeon who first sounded the alarm about the device’s dangers last year after his wife was diagnosed with end-stage uterine cancer following morcellation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital....
This government doesn't hear a goddamn thing.
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I suppose I should just $ay no.
