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June
BELLEVUE BEAST CAGED
New York Post/Laura Italiano
Hector Ramirez, a 45 year old career criminal, was charged with the savage rape of a 13 year oldgirl he snatched from her Bellevue Hospital room. NYPD Officer George Wolform recognized adescription of the suspect in a radio news report and alerted detectives. They rushed to thehospital and arrested Ramirez as he was visiting his wife, also a hospital patient, just after theApril 9, 2004 rape. He had been on parole with 12 prior arrests dating back to 1977, includingrobbery, burglary and assault. Ramirez posed as a