{"id":137324,"date":"2019-11-22T03:49:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T00:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-7712321\/New-Jersey-woman-gets-six-years-prison-stabbing-identical-twin-sister-death.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490"},"modified":"2019-11-22T03:49:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T00:49:47","slug":"new-jersey-woman-gets-six-years-in-prison-for-stabbing-her-identical-twin-sister-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/new-jersey-woman-gets-six-years-in-prison-for-stabbing-her-identical-twin-sister-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey woman gets six years in prison for stabbing her identical twin sister to death"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman who stabbed her twin sister to death sobbed as she was sentenced to six years for the murder.<\/p>\n

Amanda Ramirez, 27, admitted killing her twin, Anna, during a drunken fight outside their home in Camden, New Jersey, in June that police initially blamed on a love triangle.<\/p>\n

However, Ramirez, told New York Superior Court, Thursday, that she has no recollection of why she did it.<\/p>\n

‘I know there\u2019s nothing I can say to justify what I did. I just want to make it clear that I never had intentions of taking my twin sister\u2019s life,’ she said through tears according to NJ.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

‘If I could take back what I did I would in a heartbeat. Having to live with the fact that she\u2019s no longer alive is devastating.<\/p>\n

I just want to apologize to my family for putting them through this. I hope that they all can forgive me.’ <\/p>\n

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Amanda Ramirez (pictured in court in June), of New Jersey, received a six-year sentence on Thursday for fatally stabbing her identical twin sister, Anna, during a drunken street fight<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ramirez, 27, had pleaded guilty in September to manslaughter in the death of her twin, Anna (pictured). Ramirez initially denied stabbing her sister outside an apartment complex in Camden on June 22<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This undated photo shows Anna and Amanda Ramirez (dressed in identical outfits) as young girls posing with their cousin  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Her family appealed for a lenient sentence with sister Bianca, 16, telling Judge Edward McBride ‘You hold my sister\u2019s life in your hands, so please be gentle’.  <\/p>\n

Another sister, Monica, 19, said the family is now caring for the twins\u2019 children – Amanda’s two-year-old daughter and Anna’s three children.<\/p>\n

Her attorney, Jordan Zeitz, said the killing caused by his client not dealing with postpartum depression. <\/p>\n

Ramirez initially denied stabbing her sister outside an apartment complex in Camden on June 22.<\/p>\n

But she later admitted to the stabbing, claiming she had acted in self-defense after her sister got a knife and came at her.  <\/p>\n

Ramirez has said the stabbing occurred after a night of heavy drinking, adding that she can’t remember why she and her sister started fighting. <\/p>\n

 The brawl ended when Ramirez stabbed her sister once in the chest.<\/p>\n

Despite Ramirez claiming not to remember what led up to the fight, authorities had said a love triangle may have caused the deadly spat between the pair.<\/p>\n

But twins’ other sister, Monika Medina, 19, has claimed that the twins would never ‘fight over a man’.<\/p>\n

‘They would argue like cats and dogs, but stuck together like thieves,’ Medina, 19, told the New York Post<\/a> in June. <\/p>\n

‘Amanda and Anna’s bond was one of the tightest. Inseparable!’  <\/p>\n

‘Amanda has her own significant other. Anna had her own significant other,’ Medina said. <\/p>\n

Police arrived at the scene at 5:40am on June 22 to find Ramirez covered in blood.<\/p>\n

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Friends and family of Ramirez sat weeping behind her throughout a hearing in June <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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These images were taken less than two hours before the stabbing death of Anna, and show her spending time with her twin sister, Amanda, a cousin and a friend. Anna was seen wearing her hair down, while Amanda had her hair slicked down in the front<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

At the time, Ramirez told officers she had no idea what had happened to Anna and claimed to have found her sister that way. <\/p>\n

Anna lived with her boyfriend of two and a half years, Luis Rivera, while her sister had been in a relationship for a ‘couple of years,’ Medina said.<\/p>\n

According to police, Ramirez offered police three different stories when she was interviewed at the station.<\/p>\n

First she claimed that she found her sister injured but had no idea when, where or why the woman was stabbed and by whom. <\/p>\n

By her third statement, she claimed they’d both been drinking at a relative’s and when they arrived back at the apartment block she punched her sister in the face, following an argument.<\/p>\n

According to Ramirez’s account, the sisters fought until they were on their knees, where Anna then went to go and get a knife from the kitchen. <\/p>\n

She claimed Anna came back outside, resumed the fight, where the pair struggled over control of the blade. <\/p>\n

Ramirez claimed to have eventually disarmed her sister, and then, in an act of self-defense, plunged the knife into the left side of her chest.<\/p>\n

Police documents show that officers observed a number of injuries on Ramirez’s body as they were interviewing her, including scratches on her face, lacerations on one finger and dried blood on her ear.<\/p>\n

A knife was later recovered from Ramirez’s family’s apartment.<\/p>\n

Just hours before Anna was killed, the sisters uploaded a picture to Facebook showing them both smiling, posing alongside two friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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