A man accused of raping a 10-year-old girl in 2018 was found guilty on Tuesday.Investigators arrested 28-year-old Leonardo Ramirez, of King City, California, after DNA taken from his face mask linked him to the 2018 rape of a girl under 14 years old.A jury found Ramirez guilty of the sexual assault of his distant relative.”He showed up and he was wearing a mask but they offered him a fresh mask and he accepted that mask and then subsequently discarded the mask he had been wearing into a bag which had been pre-staged,” said Boyd.The used mask was then submitted to the Department of Justice for DNA analysis.”And subsequent to that analysis we were able to obtain a positive match from the sample in that mask and the sample initially obtained during the investigation two years ago,” Boyd.Soon after the results came back, Ramirez was arrested.Ramirez will be sentenced at a later date.Video above is from a previous broadcast.
A man accused of raping a 10-year-old girl in 2018 was found guilty on Tuesday.
Investigators arrested 28-year-old Leonardo Ramirez, of King City, California, after DNA taken from his face mask linked him to the 2018 rape of a girl under 14 years old.
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A jury found Ramirez guilty of the sexual assault of his distant relative.
“He showed up and he was wearing a mask but they offered him a fresh mask and he accepted that mask and then subsequently discarded the mask he had been wearing into a bag which had been pre-staged,” said Boyd.
The used mask was then submitted to the Department of Justice for DNA analysis.
“And subsequent to that analysis we were able to obtain a positive match from the sample in that mask and the sample initially obtained during the investigation two years ago,” Boyd.
Soon after the results came back, Ramirez was arrested.
Ramirez will be sentenced at a later date.
Video above is from a previous broadcast.
