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| Inmate must pay $2 million in child's death |
| By AP |
| Published: 02/14/2005 |
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An imprisoned child molester and former mental patient was ordered to pay $2 million to the family of a 6-year-old boy whose 1979 disappearance helped give rise to the national movement to publicize the cases of missing children. The judge who ordered Jose R. Ramos to pay the money also ruled in May 2004 that Ramos was responsible for Etan Patz' death after the inmate ignored orders to answer deposition questions for a lawyer for the boy's parents. Brian O'Dwyer, lawyer for Stanley and Julia Patz, had tried unsuccessfully to interview Ramos at the Pennsylvania prison where he is serving a 20-year sentence for sexually abusing an 8-year-old boy. O'Dwyer said Ramos, who apparently has no assets, was saying he planned to sell his story. "This puts an end to the obscenity of Ramos possibly making money off Etan's death," the lawyer said of the decision made public last Monday. Etan was the subject of one of the most extensive missing-child searches ever after he vanished May 25, 1979, while walking from his lower Manhattan home to a bus stop two blocks away for the ride to school. He was the first missing child whose photo was put on the side of a milk carton. The boy was never found, but was officially declared dead in 2001. |
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