An F.B.I. agent who worked on the Etan Patz
case for nearly a decade testified on Friday that a previous suspect in
the boy’s 1979 disappearance admitted to having sexually abused a young
boy on the same day that Etan disappeared, though he called the boy
“Jimmy.”
The
former agent, Mary Galligan, who was assigned to the case in 1989,
testified in State Supreme Court in Manhattan that in 1991 she
interviewed Jose A. Ramos, a convicted child molester and the man that
lawyers for Pedro Hernandez, who is being tried on murder charges in the
case, have tried to cast as an alternate suspect.