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Whitfield County record lists Marco Tulio Juarez Ramos on child molestation charge
Official P2C entry also lists public indecency and a $1,000 active property bond
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Production note: The initial draft and public-record normalization were automated. The Registry Recognizer Editorial Desk manually checked the name, age, booking date, booking agency, two charge labels, statutes, identifiers and bond fields against Whitfield County's official Police-to-Citizen API on August 1, 2026. The agency host presented a certificate-chain error to the research client; the exact API response was retrieved directly with certificate verification disabled and archived. The desk reviewed Georgia's enacted House Bill 1188 and the Georgia Public Safety Training Center's reproduction of the public-indecency statute. The Whitfield County Magistrate Court public party search returned no data for the name, and no automated court-document source supports this booking, so the article does not state a case posture or disposition beyond the blank charge-status fields in the official inmate record. The official booking source publishes no mugshot. Editorial illustration selected from the Sex Crimes category library. It does not depict the charged person or the reported event.
Whitfield County's official Police-to-Citizen inmate record lists Marco Tulio Juarez Ramos, 27, as booked on July 30, 2026. The record names the Whitfield County Sheriff's Office as the booking agency and lists two charges with a total bond amount of $1,000.
The first entry is labeled “CHILD MOLESTATION- CC1134,” cites O.C.G.A. § 16-6-4(a), carries identifier W26-1272 and lists an active no-bond status. The second is labeled “PUBLIC INDECENCY, 1ST OR 2ND CONVICTION- CC1179,” cites § 16-6-8(b), carries identifier WA#71296 and lists an active $1,000 property bond. No disposition is recorded for either charge. The “1st or 2nd conviction” wording is the official source's charge label and does not itself establish a prior conviction.
For legal context, Georgia's enacted House Bill 1188 amended § 16-6-4(a) to define child molestation through specified immoral or indecent conduct involving a child under 16 and sexual intent, including specified electronic-image conduct. The booking record cites subsection (a) but does not identify a more specific paragraph. A Georgia Public Safety Training Center manual reproduces § 16-6-8(a)'s definition of public indecency and subsection (b)'s misdemeanor rule, subject to subsection (c)'s rule for certain third or subsequent convictions. Those legal descriptions explain the source's citations; they do not establish that the allegations are true.
Ramos is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. A booking record and criminal charge are not convictions.
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