
Johnathan Ramsey
2002 - August 2012
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A Grave Memorial

Police
had been searching for about two
weeks for the body of Johnathan Ramsey, when
the man they suspect was
partially responsible for his death, lead
them to a heavily wooded
area where he and his wife had taken the
child after he died. Having
been called in March, by Johnathan's
grandfather who was concerned after having
not seen or spoken his grandson for over a
year, police started an investigation.
Edward
Ramsey had been listening to excuses he was
given about why his
grandson could not come to the phone. The
truth
of what was happening, was far worse than
anything he could have
thought of:
"In our eyes, he wasn't
missing because
there were excuses. It was hard but you
don't want
to
put too much pressure"
Edward Ramsey
Police
were digging in a muddy creek in
Ellis County for about seven hours
before they found what they thought
were the remains of Johnathan Ramsey:
"All
I can say is we
have found some remains and by remains
I mean something like bones. But
I
can't
say definitely
it's Johnathan Ramsey"
Sgt.
Brenda Nichols

Johnathan
Ramsey
was ten
years old when his father Aaron
Ramsey, who
was 34 at the time and his
stepmother Elizabeth Ramsey, who was
31 at
the time, locked him in a
bedroom and fed him what they called
"military rations" of bread and
water for months until one day in
August they found him on the floor
and were not able to get a response
out of him. Johnathan was being
punished for
what they called a violent outburst
where he has punched his stepmother
in the stomach so hard that she had
a
miscarriage, what they called his
"bad behavior", cost him his life.
Johnathan went from 90 pounds to 60
pounds and was unable to walk right
before he died.
Aaron
and Elizabeth were
charged with first degree felony
injury to a
child and were held on bail of
$500,000. each.
"The
child was horribly
murdered. If this is in face
Johnathan's body, he was discarded,
brutally discarded"
Sgt. Brenda Nichols

A search had been
done before, however,
the rough terrain was not able to be
searched:
"Because
this
child has not been at rest, we
have not been at rest. This has
been extremely
emotional for everyone involved -
the
family and all the officers
involved in this investigation"
Sgt.
Brenda
Nichols
Johnathan's
grandmother, Julie Ramsey, was
having a hard time with what
happened and thought there had
to be
something they didn't know about
the death of Johnathan:

"He
was
a good daddy, a wonderful
daddy. He'd go to the ends of
the earth
for anybody, especially
Johnathan.
We
don't know what happened. We
don't know exactly what
happened"
Julie
Ramsey
Through DNA
testing, Johnathan's remains
were identified and arrangements
were
being made for cremation and to
transport him to New Mexico
where his
biological mother, Judy
Williams, lives:
"Knowing
that
he's been identified there's
closure there"
Starla
Swanson
- Johnathan's Maternal
Step-Grandmother
Judy
and Aaron were divorced in 2006 after
he came home from Iraq. Judy was fighting
for custody of their two
sons, however, for some reason, a judge
gave Eric to her and Johnathan
to his father. Judy said that when he
remarried, Aaron changed and
became angrier as time went on. The last
time she saw her son, Aaron cut her off
from visitation and when she
tried to contact him, was given
excuses. E-mails with Aaron or Elizabeth
would just say that he was
fine. In February, Judy filed papers
seeking
custody of Johnathan, though she had no
known address or current phone
number for him.
Though at
the time there
were no complaints filed with Child
Protective
Services, Marissa Gonzales, a spokes-
person with the CPS said an
investigation was now being conducted.
Starla Swanson, Judy's stepmother said
that Johnathan's death had left
the family heartbroken:
"There
is
never going to be complete closure because
our grandson was
murdered. There's
always
going
to be a piece of our heart missing. The
people who are supposed
to protect you in
this
world are your
parents, you family. There is no greater
betrayal"
Starla
had tried to keep in touch with
Johnathan, however, Aaron would not
return her calls or e-mails:
"Grandparents
don't
have any rights. You cry and wait and
you hope. We hoped that
J. L.. would
reach
an age when he
would contact us. And now that is
gone"
Judy
remembers her last
phone call with Johnathan:
"He
said he couldn't
tell me what was wrong, he would get
into trouble"
Judy had
last seen
Johnathan when he was around eight years
old:
"He
was happy to be
with me and his siblings and wanted to
stay, but his father, Aaron
Ramsey
wouldn't
let him. I was
afraid of him so I didn't say anything,
maybe if I did he would still
be alive"
Judy
and Elizabeth were in contact through
e-mail at least once a week and
Elizabeth always said that things were
fine. Judy describes Johnathan as a
very loving child with a laid
back personality. Johnathan had love
school, talking to his little
brother Eric and playing video games:
"Johnathan
can be
remembered as a very sweet boy who
did not deserve this. He was well
behaved and
happy. Hardly
anything upset him"
UPDATE:
Today
is June 14, 2014
and I am searching for updates on
Jonathan's story and here is the
information I found:
In April of 2013, Aaron Ramsey,
who was 35 years old at the time,
having been found guilty of
injuring a child, was sentenced to
life in
prison after the jury took only 20
minutes to deliberate. I like to
think they took one minute and
then sat around drinking a soda
for the
other 19 minutes.
Again I will say, I do not
understand being able to be
convicted for
injury to a child, when the child
is dead, that is NOT
an injury that is a permanent
condition, until they reach Heaven
and are once again alive.
I am unable to find information on
Elizabeth's trial or sentencing at
this time.
UPDATE:
Today is July 23, 2014 and I have
just received an update on
Johnathan's story.
On July 22, 2014, Elizabeth
Ramsey, who was 33 years old at
the time,
was found guilty of starving
Johnathan to death and dumping his
body
into the creek. The
jury took only 30 minutes to
deliberate and convict
Elizabeth. Elizabeth
was
facing up to 99 years in prison
and today is the day the
sentencing
phase of this trial starts. Of
course the Defense lawyers were
asking
for a lesser charge for Elizabeth
and said that she was forced by
Aaron
to help in the abuse Johnathan
went through:
"He
didn't just
dominate his wife. He wanted
to dominate his children"
Paul
Johnson
Paul said that Aaron had admitted
that he refused to allow Elizabeth
to
get help by calling 911, in order
to save Johnathan's life.
Prosecutors in the case laid equal
blame on each parent:
"Aaron
Ramsey is a
monster, but the one thing
that defense counsel continues
to leave out
is
that his wife,
Elizabeth Ramsey, is also a
monster"
Jason
Fine - Prosecutor
The
Medical Examiner
testified in court that after a very
long time without food, a child's
heart will slow to the point that
they are incapable of moving very
much:
"There's
no fight in
them anymore because they're so
weak from chronic starvation"
Dr.
Matthew Cox
It was said in court that Aaron
ramsey was not the only one to hide
the
abuse the Johnathan was going
through since Elizabeth was home and
had
full knowledge what was going on
every time she passed the door that
held Johnathan in a prison that was
locked from the outside:
"It
took both of these
people interacting with each
other to cause the explosion
that is
Johnathan's
death"
Eren
Price - Prosecutor
Site
creators note: I don't
often
talk about my own life while
telling the stories of these
little
Angels. In this instance I am
going to share an experience I
had in
2010. I have Crohn's Disease and
in 2010, I was diagnosed with
Thyroid
Cancer. I had an Oncologist who
had a big ego and thought she
knew it
all, though I didn't know it at
the time, she was not all that
wonderful. I ended up having my
Thyroid completely removed by a
surgeon. After they remove your
Thyroid, you have to go through
a lot.
You go on a sodium free diet for
as long as it takes for your
sodium
levels to drop to an acceptable
level so that they can give you
a
Radioactive pill to take. After
that pill, you go home and stay
locked
away from everyone for several
days. Then you close that room
for seven
days and every inch of the room
has to be scrubbed and cleaned.
During
the diet part of this process,
before I was given the
Radioactive
therapy, I got very sick with my
Crohn's disease and was not able
to
eat much. I could eat one half
of a popsicle or one bite of
chicken,
just as an example. My body was
rejecting everything and I ended
up
losing 65 pounds in three weeks,
yes, I said 65 pounds in three
weeks.
During that time, I was so weak
and tired all the time. I could
walk
LITERALLY
five feet and then lay down and
take a nap for a couple of
hours, I
slept more in that time than I
ever had. My Oncologist just
kept
telling me that she couldn't
help the diet I had to be on and
if I
wasn't happy with her, I was
welcome to go to another Doctor
and her
words were "If you want to go to
another Doctor, I'll be fine, I
have
plenty of patients".
Finally, my husband talked me in
to going to my family doctor who
IMMEDIATELY
admitted me to the
hospital and informed me that if
I had not gone in to see him, I
probably would have died within
two days. I had ZERO
potassium in my body, I was
dehydrated and malnourished to
the point that my organs were
shutting
down. I stayed only about 18
hours in the hospital, however,
during
that time I was given EIGHT
bags of fluid as well as liquid
supplements, vitamins and things
along
that line. The short stay was
due to my telling him that our
insurance
would only cover about 50% of
the hospital stay because they
were not
in our network. He allowed me to
go home, but with strict
instructions
that I followed to the letter.
When I read stories about
children who are starved to
death, I know
what agony they go through
before they actually die and my
heart aches
for them in a way that I can't
explain. It's so horrible to
hear that
someone who is trusted with a
precious gift from God, will
treat them
so badly, not caring about their
suffering. I will never be able
to
understand it.
Thank
you goes out to Terri for sending
me this
update.
UPDATE:
January 27, 2015
In April of 2013,
Aaron Ramsey was sentenced
to life in prison after a
jury deliberated for
less than and hour
and found him guilty and
then took less than 20
minutes to sentence him.
In July of 2014 Elizabeth
Ramsey was found guilty in
the death of Johnathan and
though Defense Lawyers had
asked for a lesser charge, a
jury took an hour sentence
her life in prison with the
possibility of parole after
30 years.
Death
occurred in the state of Texas
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