Imagine being a parent, a mother, of a nineteen (19) y/o kid who graduated high school, attends college, works at night and is, by all reasonably measurable means, a “good” kid. So there you are, a basically proud parent, watching the evening news with your son when you see a news report about a wanted suspect in an open burglary and rape case, and when the surveillance video starts to roll lo and behold you see your son….
Sadly, that is precisely what happened to Brenda Ramon on Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015, when she had sat down with her nineteen (19) y/o son Anthony to watch the evening news and a report came up involving a teenager wanted for alleged burglary and rape. As the surveillance footage (which you can see by clicking here) started playing on the screen Brenda immediately recognized her son.
After seeing the news report Brenda woke her husband, told him what she had seen and they made the difficult decision to take Anthony down to the police precinct where he was arrested for charges including rape and burglary. Per Anthony’s father Franklin: “It was shocking, to see your son up there, wanted for some crime that we knew nothing about. He’s a good kid, goes to college, works in the night.”
Memo to Brenda and Franklin Ramon: I am sorry for your anguish but props to you for making the tough, but correct, choice to be a parent and to teach your child – no matter the age – difficult but necessary life lessons. He obviously has issues and had he gotten away with this crime then there is no telling what he may have done next. With any luck he will get help and treatment and learn and grow and become a better man for his youthful failings.
For more than 23 years Michael A. Haber, P.A. has been providing creative, effective and zealous advocacy and counsel in cases ranging from DUI to drug trafficking and from misdemeanors to first degree murder.