Victim testifies against former Tulare County Sheriff's sergeant accused of kidnapping, torture

VISALIA, Calif. (KFSN) -- A erstwhile Tulare County Sheriff's sergeant came face-to-face successful a Visalia courtroom with the pistillate he's charged with kidnapping and torturing.

The grounds connected Monday came arsenic Richard Ramirez present faces a 2nd trial.

The unfortunate described the moments that led to a aesculapian assistance telephone astatine McAuliff Street and Walnut Avenue successful October of past year.

"He dilatory tore the ligaments successful my manus with conscionable pulling it bad," recalled the victim, who was 26 years aged astatine the time.

"When I was trying with each the unit successful my assemblage to propulsion up and helium kept going down and said, 'Oh does that hurt? This is what you bash to me,'" the unfortunate recalled.

The unfortunate besides alleges that Ramirez broke her nose.

"He kept screaming, and astatine that constituent I was sitting successful the backmost seat, and humor was gushing retired of my nose. He said, 'This is what you get. Look what you did to yourself. You weren't beauteous anyhow I fixed it for you,'" the unfortunate explained.

Visalia constabulary accidental a witnesser was woken up by the unfortunate yelling for help.

"She had heard the pistillate screaming to fto her go, and that helium had bashed her caput connected the crushed and breached her chemoreceptor already and conscionable to fto her spell home," said Visalia Police Officer Mattos.

The unfortunate says she had met Ramirez successful April of 2023.

She testified they were not successful a relationship, but she had asked him for a thrust from Tulare to Visalia the nighttime of the attack.

She besides says helium raped her successful the past, and threatened her family.

"If I wasn't going retired to dinner, helium threatened to termination my mom, my dad, my siblings and I felt similar I had nary different choice. Or helium would termination me."

In court, the defence questioned wherefore she would judge a thrust location from Ramirez contempt past allegations of violence.

After the hearing, his lawyer declined our petition for an interview.

The justice held Ramirez to reply connected charges of kidnapping, torture, and causing large bodily injury.

That means determination is capable grounds for a trial.

He's scheduled to beryllium backmost successful tribunal connected September 30th.