Bertha Lozano & Jesus Ramirez kept their sister in a shed for 20 yrs.

[Jaded]

A pair of Redwood City siblings kept their mentally disabled sister in a backyard metal shed for 20 years with only a thin blanket and heater for warmth while seven pit bulls lived inside their home, according to prosecutors who charged the pair with elder neglect.

Bertha Cano Lozano, 45, is also charged with embezzlement of an elder by a caretaker. Both she and her brother Jesus Cano Ramirez, 53, pleaded not guilty yesterday and remain in custody in lieu of $250,000 bail. They each return to custody Dec. 3 for a preliminary hearing and face up to five years and four months if convicted.

Redwood City police discovered Lozano and Ramirez’s sister, Amelia, Nov. 18 when responding to a call for a teenager brandishing a knife at them. During a search of the MacArthur Avenue property, police reported finding the 58-year-old woman clad in a thin gown cold and shivering in the backyard.

The woman has the mentality of a young child and told officers she lives in an 8-foot-by-12-foot metal shed because her siblings said there is no room in the house, said Chief Deputy District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe.

Officers also reported finding a small space heater with a frayed cord, a thin mattress on the floor and a rudimentary commode. Amelia had a Barbie doll and coloring book for entertainment, Wagstaffe said.

She had no injuries and was removed from the property by Adult Protective Services.

Officers also reported finding seven pit bulls living inside the three-bedroom home.

Lozano and Ramirez reportedly were cashing Amelia’s Social Security checks and keeping the funds, Wagstaffe said.

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Searching for mugs....
And...holyfuckinshit!! What a pair of asswipes!!

[sanityslipping]

three bedroom home, three ppl, seems like there's enough room there. Hell, I once had 5 people living in a two bed apt. These ppl suck seriously bad. They treated their dogs better than their sister. Now, I love my animals, and treat them like a member of the family, but I think they would sleep outside before my siblings did. They really really suck. I have a mentally disabled uncle. When my grandmother became too old to take care of him on a daily basis, she sent him to a group home. He is taken care of and doing pretty well, even gets to have a job to earn money. There are places to take ppl when you can't, or don't want to take care of them. But, they would lose the money that was supposed to go to her care. Greedy fucking bastards

[Peeperann]

WTF?? They kept her there for 20 freaking years?? Where was the rest of the family, why did no one miss her? How horrible for her, this makes me sick to my stomach.

What in the world twists peoples brains to do something like this????

[moonlilly1981]

greed thats all that amounts to. No one there loved their sister.

[crickett]

If there were 7 pitbulls in the house, well...she may have been safer in the shed. Of course, the 7 dogs have fur, they might just be a little more comfortable outside than a woman in a thin gown.
Her siblings are asswipes! No check NOW, bitches! Get a fucking job!

[DarkPrincess]

Feed them to their pitbulls.

[Jaded]

Feed them to their pitbulls.

I'm sure they taste too bitter...

[Tazzzz]

Amelia Ramirez's Tool Shed / home And her Pus Bucket Brother Jesus Cano Ramirez, 53, and Ass hat sisiter Bertha Cano Lozano, 45,

Ok, in all fairness the family is saying she was happy living in the shed all by herself, alone each nite with a single mattress on the floor, one thin blanket, a lamp, small heater, no TV, no radio, no books, just her, ALL ALONE, did I mention she was ALL ALONE, ohh yah I did.

How do they even try to justify this kind of thing. A concrete floor and no running water for fucks sake. The seven pit bulls lived better than her. Too bad the teen didnt stab Jesus and big Bertha while she was waving the knife around. Not that, it would have done any good, they didnt have any hearts to begin with.

Amelia Ramirez, who has the emotional development of a 5- to 8-year-old, reportedly lived in the shed while her brother and sister occupied an adjacent three-bedroom home and cashed her disability checks. Authorities found Amelia Ramirez last week living in a filthy, metal garden-type shed under inhumane conditions. She was found wearing a thin nightgown in the small, dirty shed with a concrete floor and no running water, authorities said.

“The conditions were deplorable,” San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Ray Lunny said. “It’s just tragic.”

The woman lived in one of two sheds behind a house on 698 MacArthur Ave. in unincorporated Redwood City, where her brother, Jesus Ramirez, 53, and sister, Bertha Lozano, 45, were living, officials said. The siblings, who reportedly lived in the home with seven pit bulls, were arrested Nov. 18 on suspicion of elder abuse, and pleaded not guilty Thursday to separate felony charges of physical and financial elder abuse.

Authorities said the siblings cashed the woman’s Social Security checks and kept the money for themselves. They remain in jail on $250,000 bail.

Sheriff's Detective Jim Gilletti said that around 5 p.m. on Nov. 18, deputies headed to a home at 698 MacArthur Ave., in an unincorporated pocket of Redwood City, after receiving a report that a 16-year-old girl was threatening her mother with a knife.

While investigating the incident, deputies spotted the 58-year-old woman in the backyard, clad in a thin nightgown, Gilletti said.

"They saw her standing out there kind of waving so they went out to see who she was and what she was doing out there," he said.

The deputies found that the woman had apparently been living in an 8-by-12-foot sheet-metal shed that contained a single mattress on the floor, a lamp, a portable heater and a toilet, Gilletti said.

He said it was determined that the woman who lived in the shed is the sister of Lozano and Ramirez, who lived in the main house along with Lozano's 16-year-old daughter. Seven pit bulls were found at the home.

Lozano and Ramirez were arrested and their sister was taken to San Mateo Medical Center to be evaluated. Gilletti said the woman appeared to be OK. She is now in the care of the county, he said.

He called the case "very sad."

"My God, how can anybody allow another human being to live in this type of situation, especially when it's your sibling?" he said.

Temperatures the day she was found ranged from the low 40s to the upper 70s, according to the National Weather Service

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[Dakota Valkyrie]

This one was caught already

http://www.dreamindemon.com/forums/s...hlight=Ramirez

[weavergroupie]

Kinda makes one wonder why the 16 yo daughter was brandishing a knife at her own mother.

[Tazzzz]

Kinda makes one wonder why the 16 yo daughter was brandishing a knife at her own mother.

They were probly cleaning out that other shed, for her to move into, because they needed more room for the Pitt Bulls.

[Ruby]

I think they deserve the front page treatment.... coming right up!

[Dakota Valkyrie]

A brother and sister have been convicted of forcing their developmentally disabled sister to live in a backyard shed with no electricity while they stole her benefit checks.

Bertha Cano Lozano, 46, pleaded guilty in San Mateo County Superior Court to felony abuse of a dependent adult, and her brother, Jesus Cano Ramirez, 53, pleaded no contest to felony grand theft.

The convictions stemmed from the siblings' treatment of their sister Amelia Ramirez, 58.

Both were released on their own recognizance pending their sentencing April 8. They are not expected to receive any state prison time and face a maximum of six months in jail.

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[petrina]

ugh - when i read the headline i thought "please let her be dead, and her body was in the shed for 20 years". this sucks

[thatsmallgrl]

A brother and sister living near Redwood City were each sentenced today to six months in jail for forcing their developmentally disabled sister to live in a backyard shed with no electricity while they stole her benefit checks.

Bertha Cano Lozano, 46, pleaded guilty in February in San Mateo County Superior Court to felony abuse of a dependent adult. Her brother, Jesus Cano Ramirez, 53, pleaded no contest to felony grand theft.

The case stemmed from the siblings' treatment of their sister Amelia Ramirez, 58, who was found in November living in a metal shed measuring 8 feet by 10 feet, with a lamp and a small space heater operating from electricity from the main house.

While she lived outside, her siblings allowed seven pit bulls to live inside, said Steve Wagstaffe, chief deputy district attorney. Her brother and sister thought Amelia Ramirez's living arrangements were "no big deal" and that she wanted to live in the shed, Wagstaffe said.

Lozano and Jesus Ramirez admitted that they had been stealing her $700 monthly Supplemental Security Income checks.

The case was discovered when deputies responded to a call of a fight between Lozano and her daughter and found Amelia Ramirez in the backyard, cold, shivering and waving at them while wearing only a thin gown, Wagstaffe said.

In addition to the jail time, Judge James Ellis ordered Jesus Ramirez to pay $67,000 in restitution, representing a third of the loan he took out on the home that was in his and both sisters' names, said Deputy District Attorney Melissa McKowan.

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6 fucking months!!!!!!! Really?! That's it. Wow, way too short for the amount of hell they put their sister through. I really hope it the worst 6 months of these mother fuckers lives!!!!

[joo]

And for the 6 months they'll be in jail they'll have regular beds, indoor plumbing, people to talk to, TV, cards, dominoes, books, etc.

[thatsmallgrl]

And for the 6 months they'll be in jail they'll have regular beds, indoor plumbing, people to talk to, TV, cards, dominoes, books, etc.

Yep, they should throw them both in a shed at least. Freaking assholes.