{"id":60639,"date":"2025-03-25T20:35:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T00:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=60639"},"modified":"2025-03-25T20:36:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T00:36:27","slug":"lehigh-acres-man-who-molested-children-in-pool-to-serve-back-to-back-life-sentences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2025\/03\/lehigh-acres-man-who-molested-children-in-pool-to-serve-back-to-back-life-sentences\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Acres man who molested children in pool to serve back-to-back life sentences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Lehigh Acres man convicted of molesting two children will serve two consecutive life sentences, the State Attorney&#8217;s Office, 20th Judicial Circuit said on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/79075475007-ramosmug.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/79075475007-ramosmug.avif 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/79075475007-ramosmug-262x300.avif 262w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Hemeregildo Gonzalez Ramos, 56, was sentenced for lewd and lascivious molestation. He was convicted by a jury in February, following a trial in Lee County. He has been held without bond at Lee County Jail since June 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The case involves two child victims who were molested by Gonzalez Ramos between January 1, 2017, and December 31, 2018, court records indicate. He molested the children when they were in a pool at home in Lehigh Acres and also molested a victim inside the home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office began an investigation after a child victim told an adult about what happened and that adult contacted law enforcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assistant State Attorney Janesha Beckford and Assistant State Attorney Francine Donnorummo, Special Victims Unit chief, prosecuted the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Lehigh Acres man convicted of molesting two children will serve two consecutive life sentences, the State Attorney&#8217;s Office, 20th Judicial Circuit said on Monday. Hemeregildo Gonzalez Ramos, 56, was&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":60640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[3010],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60641,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60639\/revisions\/60641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}