June 14, 2016
By JIM SECKLER
The Daily News

KINGMAN — A Superior Court judge has postponed the trial for a California man charged with molesting a young girl in Bullhead City.

Jose Raul Ramos-Ramirez, 37, is charged with one count of child molestation. He faces up to 24 years in prison if he is tried and convicted of the molestation charge. Ramos-Ramirez, undocumented immigrant from El Salvador, is charged with molesting a 11-year-old girl July 4, 2015 while they rode a jet ski on the Colorado River.

He is being held in custody without bond.

On Monday, Deputy Mohave County Attorney Jacob Cote asked for a two-week delay to the trial because of communication and traveling issues involving the victims, who live in California. Ramos-Ramirez’s attorney, Robin Puchek said that he is ready for trial.

Superior Court Judge Steven Conn set Ramos-Ramirez’s new trial to begin July 12 with another pre-trial hearing now set for June 27. On Thursday, the judge denied allowing the evidence of five prior acts including inappropriate touching made by the defendant toward his former step-daughter about 10 years ago.

Ramos-0Ramirez was arrested July 4, 2015 at Community Park in Bullhead City after the girl told her mother that Ramos-Ramirez allegedly molested her. Ramos-Ramirez and the girl rode a personal watercraft into shallow water of the river when the suspect got off the ski, made inappropriate comments and then allegedly touched her. After returning to her family, the girl told her mother, who called police.

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