Oh lordy, she just got out of prison and she is at it once again! Will she ever learn??
The best way to protect yourself from her is to make sure you get a proof of pregnancy that can be verified, and have her sign a release of medical information. DO NOT,,,I repeat, DO NOT drive, fly or walk until you get at least those two things. Her story changes, there will be major red flags, but she can pull you in all the same. She goes by different names, always wanting money, can make her stories believable, and has the same narcissistic personalities as a couple of others I have written about on this blog. In fact she kind of looks like one of the "others", even comes from the same state, but is not the same person.
Here is a news article in regards to her last arrest:
| WOMAN AT CENTER OF ADOPTION SCAM SENTENCED
TO PRISON |
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(CORPUS CHRISTI,
Texas) – Belinda Ramirez, who engaged in a second adoption scheme following her
release from prison for her 2007 adoption scheme conviction, has been sentenced
to prison, United States Attorney Don DeGabrielle announced today.
In January
2007, Ramirez was convicted of mail and wire fraud and sentenced by U.S.
District Judge Janis Graham Jack to 24 months in federal prison to be followed
by three years of supervised release for engaging in an adoption scam. In that
case, Ramirez claimed to be pregnant, found and communicated online with couples
seeking to adopt and solicited and received money and gift cards purportedly to
cover pregnancy expenses from a number of prospective adoptive parents. Ramirez
was not pregnant, spent the money and caused prospective parents to spend
thousands of dollars to make trips to Corpus Christi in anticipation of a birth
that never happened. By May 2008, Ramirez, who had completed her prison term and
had been released from prison, began a second adoption scam. This second similar
scheme – claiming a pregnancy, seeking adoptive parents online and soliciting
things of value – involved numerous victims who lost approximately $17,747.
Ramirez pleaded
guilty to two felony offenses – mail fraud and wire fraud - arising from this
second adoption scheme. Today, calling Ramirez’s behavior “egregious,” Judge
Janice Graham Jack sentenced Ramirez to 30 months on each of the two counts for
the 2008 case - the maximum sentence under the applicable guideline range,
followed by three years of supervised release. The sentences are to be served
concurrently. In deciding the sentence, the court considered the sophisticated
means used by Ramirez -- the use of a computer to look up adoption facilities
and prospective adoptee profiles – to target persons she knew to be vulnerable.
Judge Jack furthered ordered Ramirez to have no access to cell phones, no
contact with the victims, no access to the Internet and to obtain mental health
and psychiatric care.
The
investigation into the second adoption scam case that led to Ramirez’s arrest on
May 21, 2008, by special agents of the FBI-Corpus Christi office at a local
motel in Beeville, Texas, was initiated after the FBI received a call from a
detective of the Placer County Sheriff's Department in California about a
suspicious adoption by a woman calling herself "Jennifer Silver." The California
detective told FBI agents, Silver claimed to be looking to place her soon-to-be
delivered baby up for adoption. A couple from Fresno, Calif., seeking to adopt a
baby, was contacted by an adoption facilitator and placed in contact
with Silver. The prospective adoptive couple was told by Silver they had been
chosen as adoptive parents for her baby. Silver told the couple she
needed financial assistance to cover expenses for food, clothing and medical
necessities. The couple wired Silver a $800 Moneygram from California to Texas
on May 19, 2008.
On May 21,
2008, FBI agents arranged to deliver an envelope addressed to Jennifer Silver
from the California couple purported to contain approximately $500 in cash at
the Beeville motel. Belinda Ramirez was Jennifer Silver. Ramirez was arrested
at the hotel when she accepted delivery of the envelope.
Additionally,
because Ramirez was serving a term of supervised release as part of her sentence
in her first conviction when she orchestrated the second adoption scheme, she
faced revocation and the imposition of a second prison term. Judge Jack held a
hearing, ordered the term of supervised release revoked and imposed a 24 month
prison term on each of the two counts of conviction in that case - the maximum
statutory sentence allowable. These terms of imprisonment are to be served
consecutively to each other and to the 30 month sentence on the 2008 charges.
Ramirez will serve a total of 78 months in the Bureau of Prisons.
Ramirez has been
in custody since her May 2008 arrest and will remain in federal custody to begin
serving her prison terms. Both cases were prosecuted by Assistant United States
Attorney Elsa Salinas Patterson.
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