🚨 NORTH BERGEN MAN SENTENCED TO 24 YEARS FOR CEMETERY KIDNAPPING AND SEXUAL ASSAULT

She was walking home. He dragged her into a cemetery.

A North Bergen man will spend the next two decades behind bars after admitting to a brutal 2019 assault that shocked the community.

Oscar Ramirez, 33, was sentenced on Friday, June 27, 2025, to 24 years in New Jersey State Prison for the kidnapping and sexual assault of a 23-year-old woman, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez announced.

The terrifying attack happened just before midnight on October 25, 2019, as the woman walked along 46th Street near John F. Kennedy Boulevard in North Bergen. Ramirez, then 27, crept up behind her, threatened her with a sharp object, and forced her into the Grove Church Cemetery—where he carried out the assault.

The victim reported the crime within hours. Thanks to swift work by the North Bergen Police Department and the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit, Ramirez was arrested just four days later, on October 30, 2019, at the prosecutor’s office in Jersey City.

Ramirez pleaded guilty to one count of kidnapping and one count of aggravated sexual assault. He was sentenced to 24 years for kidnapping, to run concurrently with an 18-year term for the sexual assault. Under New Jersey’s No Early Release Act, he must serve at least 85% of his sentence before becoming eligible for parole.

He will also be required to register under Megan’s Law and remain under lifetime parole supervision.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant Prosecutor Alexandra J. Meador, with sentencing handed down by Hudson County Superior Court Judge Mitzy Galis-Menendez.