SAN JOSE — A martial-arts studio proprietor charged in June with sexually assaulting certainly one of his college students has since been charged with a number of extra felony counts after three extra folks got here ahead to allege they have been additionally assaulted by him, court docket information present.
Ernest Joseph Ramirez, 54, appeared Wednesday in court docket, the place Decide Jose Franco appointed the Santa Clara County Alternate Defender’s Workplace to characterize him. Franco additionally accredited three protecting orders barring Ramirez from making any contact with three of the reported victims. Ramirez has not but entered a plea within the case.
On June 13, Ramirez was initially charged with eight felony counts of aggravated sexual assault of a kid below 14, primarily based on crimes spanning August 2019 and June 2021. Three days later, the legal grievance was amended so as to add 10 extra costs associated to claims from three extra reported victims.
Ramirez, who ran Excessive Martial Arts in San Jose, was arrested June 9 after a 14-year-old lady — who now lives in Idaho — instructed her father Ramirez sexually abused her whereas she was enrolled in an after-school program at his studio. They contacted native authorities, who then alerted police in San Jose, because the alleged crimes occurred when she lived there.
After they served a search a warrant on the studio, investigators reported that Ramirez denied the allegations. When police introduced his arrest, they mentioned they have been exploring the potential for different victims primarily based on Ramirez’s prolonged time spent supervising minors.
Three girls contacted police with accounts of being sexually assaulted by Ramirez, in response to court docket paperwork.
One lady claimed that Ramirez assaulted her in Could 2021, resulting in a cost of sexual penetration involving a sufferer who was intoxicated or anesthetized.
The amended legal grievance additionally states that one other lady instructed police that in not less than three cases between 2004 and 2008, Ramirez had intercourse together with her, when she was between 10 and 13 years outdated. These allegations led to costs of aggravated sexual assault and of a kid below 14, oral copulation with a toddler below 14, and lewd and lascivious acts on a toddler below 14.
A fourth reported sufferer described being sexually assaulted by Ramirez over the course of the previous 14 years, beginning when she was between 7 and 9 years outdated. The grievance describes not less than 4 cases of assault, resulting in costs of lewd and lascivious acts with a toddler below 14; two counts of rape with the usage of an intoxicating, anesthetic or managed substance; oral copulation with a minor below 16; rape by drive, violence, duress, menace or concern; and threatening to commit a criminal offense that may end in demise or nice bodily damage.
The rape and risk costs involving this lady are primarily based on a reported encounter on April 14, in response to the grievance.
Ramirez is being held with out bail on the Elmwood males’s jail in Milpitas. He's scheduled to return to court docket Sept. 21.