This memorial website was created in the memory of our loved one, Crystal Ramirez who was born in Texas on September 01, 1998 and passed away on August 23, 2007 at the age of 8. We will remember her forever. I know that life was short for you here on earth but you are in a better place in heaven and I wish that I was with you. I know that you are watching me and the things that I am trying to do. I pray that you give me the strength that I need to go on. You are with GOD and his angles. Play and run my baby do the things that you were denied. No one can tell you no!!! You can live your life to the fullest.   

       It took me some time to say what I am feeling yet the words really dont say how i feel. See Crystal was born in August to Teresa Camarillo and Charles Cheatham. She was a little baby and only weighed 5lbs. As the years went be things got bad between myself and her dad Charles. We started to use drugs. That is when CPS stepped in and took our kids away. At the time I knew that I could not care for my kids. I was hooked on drugs and her father was too. Neither one of us had a job or a place to stay. I didnt want my kids living on the street. His aunt Bettie Cheatham Ramirez and her husband Ruben Steven Ramirez got full custody of our 3 kids. Crystal now 9, Casandra now 10, and Baby Charles now 8. When all this was going on I was promissed that I would be able to see my kids. I did only for a little bit. Then they started to ignore me and my phone calls. They ended up calling the cops on me and told me to stop calling or I would be arrested for harrassment. As the years went by i cleaned my self up. Charles went to prison and that is where he is today. I went to college and graduated. I never forgot about me kids. They were always on my mind and in my prayers. I never thought that this would happen to my family. I would take them Gifts for Christmas but I dont know if they ever got them. Pepol would ask me " why dont you go up there and see your kids?" All I could say was that they have a good life and I did not want to disturb them. I was going to wait until they got old enough to look for me. I never lived more than an 1hr and a half from them. See his aunt and uncle had a lot of land and money and could give them a great life. i didnt want to take that from them.

       The morning that I got the call I was on my way to work. A friend called me and asked me how I was doing I told her that I was fine and I was going to work. She asked me if I could stop by cause she wanted to talk to me. Never in a million years did I think that I was going to hear what I did. She told me that one of my daughters had died and she didnt know which one or if it was true. Two minuets alter the phone rang and they told her it was true and that it was Crystal. We were told that she died of dehydration. At the time I thought that she may have been sick. That was when my friend told me that my other two kids were in CPS care. I went crazy that I didnt hear what was being said. All I knew was that my daughter was gone not knowing how or why?All i knew was that she was gone and i would never be able to talk to her at to ask her to forgive me. As the day went on I started to hear different stories about her death. Then the truth came out and i went crazy. I found out that they hurt my babyreally bad. The things that they did to her and her sister are un speakable.Crystal weighed 28lbs when she died. I regret everything I think how she suffered and wonder how monsters like them did this. I wish I could have taken her place.  They only hurt her and her sister and not my son. I guess they did not like my girls. Nobody was alowed to attend her furneral and she was not allowed flowers. To this day i wonder why?? She was a baby. Her adopted older Sister Stephine Ramirez Fehner was the one who did not allow all of this?? I ask my self WHY??     I am currently fighting for Crystals brother and sister. The people who did this to her are going to court this month on Febuary the 20th. They are pleading not guilty. We are hoping for the death penality. I pray to GOD that we will suceed in punishing them and sentencing them to death.

       Crystal CLaudette Cheatham this was her name at birth I named her Claudette after my mom. She is survived by her sisters Ashley Marie Ramirez, Casandra Louise Cheatham, Ruby Marie Camarillo, her two brothers Charles William Cheatham III, and Christifer Augustine Camarillo. She was proceded in death by her grandparents Charles and Louise Cheatham Sr.

       To anyone that reads this please keep my family in your prqyers. God knows that I will never forgive myself for what happened to her. I can only hope and pray that one day she will forgive me for what I did in the past. I carrythis pain in my heart and I know that it will never go away. I want everyone to know that Crystals favorite color is BLUE. 

       The fight will keep going and I hope justice is served. I know that I have a lot of making up to do but i am willing to do it for the rest of my life. Crystal my sweetheart the center of my heart I know that ond day I will see you soon. I may not see you tomorrow or the next day but we will see each other again. Your dad regrets everything like I do. Hes having a hard time dealing with it. I know that its worse beause that is his family. I will never understand why????? I had always hoped to hold you in my arms again and they took that from me_^.