Ex-Boyfriend From Hell Sentenced To 32 Years For Framing Queens Woman

Seemona Sumasar (inset), Jerry Ramrattan (ABC News)

The Queens man who was found guilty of raping his ex-girlfriend and subsequently framing her for armed robbery—which caused her to lose her business and be jailed for months—has been sentenced to 32 years in jail. Supreme Court Justice Richard Buchter tore into Jerry Ramrattan when he tried to plead for mercy earlier today; Ramrattan maintained his innocence, while touting his work stopping crimes as a police informant. "The defendant is an architect of his own ruin. He deserves no mercy from me and he won't get any," Buchter said, calling him a “diabolical conniver who shamelessly exploited the criminal justice system.”

The whole mess started in September 2009, after Ramrattan and Seema Sumasar had already broken up, and Sumasar had filed sex attack charges against Ramrattan. Desperate to make the charges go away, he was accused of hiring two men to say they'd been pulled over in remote locations of Nassau County by Sumasar posing as a cop in a bulletproof vest; they then said she robbed them at gunpoint. Sumasar was arrested, and spent seven months in jail; the Richmond Hill bakeshop she started went under, her home went into foreclosure, and she was separated from her 12-year-old daughter.

But police didn't look into the fact Sumasar had an alibi during at least one so-called robbery—and Buchter said it was ridiculous cops thought a 5-foot-2 former Wall Street analyst could have held people up at gunpoint: “The police were duped by liars by whom they had a right to be suspicious, and as a result a rape victim was framed by her rapist,” the judge said. “She was victimized by the rapist and then again by the criminal justice system.”

Prosecutors had argued that Ramrattan, who loved CSI and Law And Order, drew from his knowledge of police procedure (gleaned from his time as an informer for law enforcement), and accomplished "one of the most elaborate framing plots that they had ever seen." Sumasar took the stand recently to testify to Ramrattan's lack of remorse, and face her attacker: "I think Mr. Ramrattan would stop at nothing even if it meant my life...You're evil and you're a sociopath and you need help. Maybe I'm going through this for a reason, that reason being that someone needs to put a stop to you and your madness."

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By Ben Yakas in News on January 4, 2012 3:50 PM

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izzy isou

What prestigious member of the NYPD believed these nutty allegations to begin with, and without even checking her alibi, Barney Fife?

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TWaller

Yes.

sharpshoota

These folks are from Guyana, not India. Take a ride through RIchmond Hills in Queens to see what they are like but roll up your windows and lock your doors.

canofpeas

Back in his country the in laws would have thrown acid in her face and burned her alive. Now it's Jerry's turn to cry.

crusher153

his ass is going to be rammed rotten! sorry everyone! with a name like ramratten, it was just out there for someone to take.

at least justice was done for this poor woman to have to go through all of this. hopefully this ass never sees the light of day.

birdtird

shame on you Jerry, in the form of a big dude who likes to have his "salad", "tossed".

e non

this poor woman; at least she's seen justice for what she's been put thru.

that's some lazy-assed police work. how much are detectives pulling down?

Peter Rosa

Indians are all supposed to be top professionals with high-6-figure incomes and IQ scores in excess of 125. Not criminals.

MuhammadCohen

Indians from India do look down on Indians from caribbean for several reasons

1. Most caribbean Indians are from Nishads , an untouchable caste of agricultural workers

2. Indians from India fear that the Caribbean Indians , who are darker due to lower caste origin and of Haplogroup H1, ( vs R1A for the upper castes ) also have picked up black blood by miscegenation with negros

It is impossible to have avoided black miscegenation, but Indians do outcaste most doglas ( black-Indian mullatos ) and Indian-black miscegenation is very very rare compared to white-black miscegenation

Add to it the academic gap ( A grades vs C to D grades )and socio-economic gaps ( MD vs taxi driver )

SpideySense

He deserves to spend every one of the 32 years rotting in prison. Hopefully he'll make lots of "friends" there. See you in 2044, when you'll be an old man of 71.

cr17

Next time dude, just forget her and move on.

Also, I'm confused as to why a 5 foot 2 inch woman couldn't hold someone at gunpoint...

ThreeAndNine

It's made confusing by the choice here to mention her height in that sentence. In the original article that's not the reason that was given for why should "couldn't have done it."

"Buchter questioned how detectives could have bought the tale that Ramrattan made up for his accomplices, especially while the rape charges were pending. All investigators had to do was look at the website Ramrattan kept for his business Most Wanted Inc. where he promised that he could "fix anything, any time," the judge noted. "Is it really surprising that he would try to fix his own case?” Buchter wondered. "You didn't have to be Sherlock Holmes to wonder if something was fishy."

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Congrats to the judge in coming down hard on the scumbag, and good luck to Ms. Sumasar in collecting a nice payout from the NYPD and the city. Of all the millions we taxpayers have to pay for that kind of stupidity and bungling, she deserves it more than most of the plaintiffs.