But, of course, The Smoking Gun slimed slimed Charles Ramsey.
The Cleveland man credited with helping free female captives from a house of horrors is a convicted felon whose rap sheet includes three separate domestic violence convictions that resulted in prison terms, court records show.
…According to a Cleveland Heights Police Department report, Rochelle Ramsey twice dialed 911 to report that she was being attacked by her spouse. “My husband is trying to kill me!” Rochelle yelled. During one of the calls, a police operator noted, a male could be heard in the background saying, “I’m going to kill you.”
When cops arrived at the Ramsey residence, Rochelle was “extremely shaken and crying” and had a fresh cut on her face, police reported. During questioning, Charles Ramsey blamed his wife’s assault on a “male in red sweatpants” who fled the home. Rochelle, however, confirmed that she was assaulted by her husband and that no other man had been in the apartment.
In a TSG interview, Rochelle, now remarried, referred to a series of “domestic disputes” that resulted in her ex-husband’s arrests (and which prompted her to file for divorce in September 2003, while Ramsey was incarcerated in state prison). In her divorce complaint, Rochelle accused Ramsey–whom she married on Valentine’s Day in 1995–of “gross neglect of duty” and “extreme cruelty.”
After pleading guilty to the felony abuse charge, Ramsey was sentenced to eight months in prison and ordered, following his release from custody, to be placed on “post release control” supervision for the maximum term allowable by Ohio law.
…Ramsey’s ex-wife Rochelle, who secured a divorce decree after her former spouse was locked up, told TSG that Ramsey eventually apologized for battering her. However, Rochelle said, “The only thing is he never paid child support,” which was mandated at $51 per month in the divorce decree. She added that, “The county has taken his driving privileges away for non-support.”
While Rochelle, a licensed nurse, said that she is on “an okay basis” with Ramsey, the couple’s daughter has a rockier relationship with him, and has even carefully cut her father out of many photos taken at her parents’s wedding.
A decade ago, Charles Ramsey was a real creep and the people running the Smoking Gun feel that it’s very important for you to know this now because, well, they can get some traffic out of it. They just took this private information that 95% of the people who knew him probably had never heard and they broadcasted it to all of planet earth because HE HELPED SOMEONE IN NEED.
Is that unethical? Yes, it is. They punished the man for doing something good for another human being and for that, they should be deeply ashamed.