Fla. Mom Was Strangled by Half-spic Son After Confronting Him About Bad Grades, and Teen Gets 45 Years

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A Florida teenager who admitted to killing his mother and 
burying her body under a church fire pit has been sentenced to 
45 years in prison.

Gregory Ramos pleaded guilty in December to first-degree murder, 
abuse of a body and tampering with evidence. On Friday, he was 
sentenced to 45 years in prison, with the sentence set to be 
reviewed after 25 years. He will be on probation for the rest of 
his life.

Now 17, Ramos was 15 years old in 2018 when he got into a fight 
with his mother over his grades, the Orlando Sentinel reports. 
He admitted to strangling 46-year-old Gail Cleavenger, then 
calling two friends to help him bury her body and stage a 
robbery at his house.

He was charged as an adult.

During court proceedings, Ramos' public defender told the judge 
the teen regrets his crime and is trying to better himself 
behind bars.

"He's extremely remorseful and he regrets his actions every 
day," Matthew Phillips, Ramos' public defender, told the court 
last month, according to WKMG-TV, "and he's been trying to be 
productive; while he's been in custody, he has been obtaining a 
high school diploma."

Ramos initially called 911 after arriving home from school on 
November 2, 2018. When detectives arrived, he told them he came 
home to discover that the house had been robbed. He alleged that 
his mother was missing, but her van was still running in the 
driveway.

Upon further interrogation, Ramos changed his story, saying that 
they fought over a "D" grade he'd received in school. During the 
altercation, he strangled her. He said it took about 30 minutes 
for him to kill her.

He then called two friends to help him cover up the killing. 
They have both been charged as adults with being accessories 
after the fact to a capital felony. They have both pleaded not 
guilty.

According to WESH-TV, Ramos was emotional during the sentencing 
hearing, telling relatives that he was sorry for his actions. He 
made no excuses for himself.

At one point, the judge allowed Ramos' 84-year-old grandmother 
to see his face close up for the first time since he was jailed. 
She prayed with Ramos and told him that she will always be there 
for him.

Ramos has been remanded to a Florida prison to serve his 
sentence.

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Put this little bastard in with the niggers.  They know how to 
treat mommy killers.

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Gail Elaine (Goretsky) Cleavenger

Debary - July 4, 1972 - November 2, 2018

Gail Elaine (Goretsky) Cleavenger, of Debary, died one year ago 
on November 2, 2018. Gail was a 1990 graduate of Merritt Island 
High School, a 1995 graduate of the University of Miami, and was 
most recently employed as an architect by the Orlando firm of 
Rhodes+Brito Architects.

She is missed dearly by husband Daniel Cleavenger, mother 
Catherine Goretsky, five siblings and a large extended family. 
She was preceded in death by her father, Lawrence M. Goretsky.

Donations may be made to the Gail Legacy Project of the Sanford 
Crisis Pregnancy Center.

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Published in FloridaToday from Dec. 5 to Dec. 9, 2019.