{"id":792944,"date":"2019-02-11T16:16:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/ramon-villa-sentenced-to-two-years-in-jail-for-role-in-2016-silverthorne-sex-assault\/"},"modified":"2019-02-19T10:50:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T17:50:33","slug":"ramon-villa-sentenced-to-two-years-in-jail-for-role-in-2016-silverthorne-sex-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/ramon-villa-sentenced-to-two-years-in-jail-for-role-in-2016-silverthorne-sex-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramon Villa sentenced to two years in jail for role in 2016 Silverthorne sex assault"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ramon Villa, 42, pleaded guilty Monday to sexual assault, the final of four men charged in connection with a sexual assault case from St. Patrick’s Day 2016. Villa will be sentenced in January.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

EAGLE\u2014Ramon Villa, one of the four men involved in the St. Patrick\u2019s Day sexual assault in Silverthorne in 2016, was sentenced to two years in county jail during a hearing at the Eagle County Justice Center on Monday morning. Villa, who was accused of video taping and sexually assaulting a woman too inebriated to consent in his Silverthorne apartment in March 2016, originally went to trial on the case in September last year. A mistrial was declared in the case after a juror found a page of notes in his notebook from the trial of Justin Cayce Erwin<\/a>, another of the accused in the case.<\/p>\n

In November, Villa accepted a plea agreement<\/a> with the Fifth Judicial District, pleading guilty to a felony charge of attempted sexual assault and misdemeanor charges of invasion of privacy for sexual gratification and unlawful sexual contact.<\/p>\n

On Monday, at an emotional hearing that lasted well over an hour, District Judge Russell Granger heard statements from the victim and Villa himself, along with both attorneys on the case.<\/p>\n

The accuser gave a lengthy victim impact statement in which she detailed the lasting effects of the assault on her daily life, as well as voiced a desire to see a standard of accountability replace what she called a culture of \u201cdomination and sexual gratification.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are scars left on my soul that can\u2019t be seen by the naked eye,\u201d she said. \u201cEven with my determined effort to heal, there is some damage I\u2019ll never be able to recover from.\u201d<\/p>\n

The victim said that over the last three years she\u2019s suffered from severe financial setbacks stemming from the assault, saying that she has been unable to hold a steady job as a result of mental health difficulties and constant courtroom appearances. She went on to express a deep embarrassment that the incident was recorded, and noted a pattern of pervasive fear and debilitation that\u2019s lasted from the assault.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour actions will forever negatively impact me, and present challenges for the rest of my life,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n

Deputy district attorney Lisa Hunt painted a picture of a man without remorse for his actions, saying that Villa and other defendants in the case still viewed themselves as victims and lacked a proper understanding of consent.<\/p>\n

In Villa\u2019s defense, his attorney Stacey Shobe noted that Villa didn\u2019t interact with the victim at the bar that night before she arrived at his apartment, and he didn\u2019t have the benefit of witnessing her behavior throughout the night or her level of intoxication. Shobe said that while Villa couldn\u2019t change his actions on the night of the incident, he is dedicated to taking responsibility and understanding how his actions affected the victim.<\/p>\n

\u201cThroughout this process he has been open and receptive to any treatment he\u2019s been asked to complete,\u201d said Shobe. \u201cHe wants to do it, he wants to learn from the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finally, Villa spoke for himself, offering a statement on his intentions to use the assault as a learning experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do know what \u2018no\u2019 means,\u201d said Villa. \u201cAnd I was under the impression it was consensual. Now that we\u2019re going through all this, obviously there\u2019s more of a misunderstanding, or something I need to learn. I did question that during my incarceration; of how could this have been misconstrued as non-consensual. But I want to move forward after jail\u2026and get the treatment that your honor would give me so that I can learn from all this and not let it happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Judge Granger sentenced Villa to two years in county jail on the invasion of privacy for sexual gratification charge. Additionally, Villa received a four-year deferred judgment and sentence on the felony count, and five years of probation for the second misdemeanor. As part of the deferred judgment, Villa was sentenced to an additional 90 days in county jail, and he was given credit for the 459 days he has already served in incarceration. Villa was immediately taken back into custody to begin his sentence.<\/p>\n

Villa\u2019s case is the third stemming from the assault to be completed. Paul Garvin was convicted of felony sexual assault during his trial in October 2017, and was sentenced to a minimum of 16 years in prison<\/a> in March 2018. Michael Gelber accepted a plea agreement in June 2018, and was sentenced to one year in county jail<\/a>. Justin Erwin, following a partial exoneration at trial in July 2018, accepted a plea agreement in January<\/a> and is scheduled to be sentenced in March.<\/p>\n

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Ramon Villa, 42, pleaded guilty Monday to sexual assault, the final of four men charged in connection with a sexual assault case from St. Patrick’s Day 2016. Villa will be sentenced in January. EAGLE\u2014Ramon Villa, one of the four men involved in the St. Patrick\u2019s Day sexual assault in Silverthorne in 2016, was sentenced to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 19:10:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}