GREENE COUNTY — The sentencing for former Dayton Children’s Hospital doctor Gregory Ramey has been delayed until December, according to records.
Gregory Ramey, 71, now of Columbus, was previously charged with 145 charges related to child porn and six counts of endangering children. A plea deal Ramey took in September dropped the charges related to child porn and had him pleading guilty to six counts of endangering children and a single count of tampering with evidence.
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Ramey had turned himself in after he was indicted on the charges last February and bonded out of jail.
As part of the plea, Ramey will remain on GPS monitoring, but will no longer be under house arrest. He also is not allowed to have any unsupervised contact with any child under the age of 18, court records show.
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“This egregious abuse of the patients’ trust, not to mention the publics’ trust, from a doctor is gut-wrenchingly horrible,” Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said at the time of Ramey’s indictment. “Young children are innocent, sweet and trusting – vulnerably fragile and in need of special protection.”
“We certainly have everything we need for this indictment and that should be enough to make sure that he stays away for a good long time,” Yost told News Center 7 previously.
As part of the plea Ramey faces up to 21 years in prison, however there is no mandatory prison term for any of the charges he was convicted on, court records show. He also faces a fine of up to $70,000.
The Ohio Attorney General’s Office handled the prosecution in the case, according to current Greene County Prosecutor David Hayes. Hayes said the case began under his predecessor Stephen Haller two years ago and a special prosecutor from the Ohio AG’s Office was requested to handle the case in Greene County court.
“These are always difficult cases. In this case, he admitted guilt and agreed to felony charges. He will rightfully lose his medical license and no one will ever trust him again,” Yost said after the plea deal was reached.
Ramey is a former Dayton Children’s Hospital child psychologist and the hospital said “we were blindsided by the allegations of inappropriate behavior in his personal life. Nothing in the performance of his professional role created any suspicions.”
“We are shocked and deeply troubled by these allegations, which are in stark contrast to our mission and core values,” Dayton Children’s said in a statement.
Ramey started at Dayton Children’s in 1979. The well-known pediatric psychologist was one of the public faces of Dayton Children’s, writing a weekly parenting column in the Dayton Daily News that was distributed on the New York Times wire service, and making frequent appearances in local and outside media.
Sentencing is now set for Dec. 16.