Judge: ‘Too much [jail] time,’ but approves anyway
Despite voicing concern that a negotiated eight-year sentence was “too much” jail time, Judge Robert Smith agreed to accept a plea deal in an Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force case in Rappahannock County Circuit Court last Thursday.
David Ramey, 39, of Loudoun County, was arrested after initiating a lengthy online chat that “immediately turned sexual” with someone he believed was under 15, according to court records. The person on the other side of the conversation was Rappahannock Sheriff’s Detective Chris Garcia, participating in an ICAC sting while presenting himself online as a 14-year-old girl…