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Liberty man sentenced to 25 years for manslaughter of wife

Posted 2/20/17

LIBERTY - District Attorney Jim Farrell announced on Thursday that Jorge Gonzalez, 66, of Liberty, N.Y. was sentenced in Sullivan County Court to 25 years in prison and 5 years of post-release …

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Liberty man sentenced to 25 years for manslaughter of wife

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LIBERTY - District Attorney Jim Farrell announced on Thursday that Jorge Gonzalez, 66, of Liberty, N.Y. was sentenced in Sullivan County Court to 25 years in prison and 5 years of post-release supervision for Manslaughter in the 1st Degree, a class B violent felony. Farrell said that Gonzalez pled guilty on November 16, 2016, to Manslaughter in the 1st Degree and admitted that he shot and killed his wife, Ramona Gonzalez, 30, in a wooded area in the Town of Fallsburg on February 4, 2016.

Village of Liberty Police were called to investigate the disappearance of Ramona Gonzalez after she was reported missing by her children on February 5, 2016.

Initially the case was investigated as a missing person and that shifted after police discovered the story her husband was providing was not true.

Assisted by the New York State Police, Bureau of Criminal Investigation, the Town of Fallsburg Police and the Sullivan County District Attorney's Office, investigators found the victim in a wooded area in the Town of Fallsburg after Gonzalez led them to her body.

An autopsy determined that she had been shot to death.

“The New York State Police and Liberty Police worked this case very diligently from its inception as a missing person case to homicide and their good work resulted in the successful prosecution here and the resultant 25 year state prison sentence,” said Farrell. “This case is another case of domestic violence that resulted in the ultimate act of violence - homicide, and should serve as a reminder of the serious danger that domestic violence poses and why our society needs to treat domestic violence as the serious crime that it is.

“Ramona Gonzalez was killed at the hands of the person that was supposed to love her. Her husband will now likely spend the rest of his life in prison for this homicide and we hope this sentence brings justice to Ramona's family.

“My office and all of Sullivan County law enforcement are committed to prosecuting offenders of domestic violence and to anyone out there suffering, I urge you to come forward and report what is happening to law enforcement so we can break the cycle of violence,” Farrell concluded.

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