Dry cleaner sentenced to 95 years to life for two rapes

The manager of a dry-cleaning business was sentenced Wednesday in Santa Ana to 95 years to life for the rapes of two women, including a 17-year-old who worked for him.

Jaime Zamora Ramirez, 42, raped the teenage employee, who was in the country illegally, in July 2009, prosecutors said.

"He knew that she was undocumented" and told her no one would believe her if she reported the assault, said Orange County Deputy District Attorney Jennifer Walker.
Three days later, however, the victim told co-workers about the incident, and they persuaded her to report it to police, prosecutors said.
Several months earlier, in October 2008, Ramirez raped a friend with whom he had gone dancing, prosecutors said.
Anaheim police had been investigating that case but had not charged Ramirez when the minor came forward with her story, Walker said.
A jury found Ramirez guilty in July of two felony counts of rape, one felony count of forcible sexual penetration with sentencing enhancements for forcibly raping multiple victims and committing a sexual offense during the commission of a residential burglary.
He has a prior strike for vehicular manslaughter in 1992.