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Longtime Etan Patz suspect Jose Ramos released, then immediately arrested

Jose Ramos today

Jose Ramos today (Christopher Sadowski)

Jose Ramos (AP)

TRUCKSVILLE, Pa. — The kiddie perv, once suspected in Etan Patz’s disappearance, walked out of prison before he was locked up again for allegedly lying to cops about his living arrangement, authorities said today.

Jose Ramos, 69, was released from SCI Dallas Prison in northeast Pennsylvania late last night and then immediately rearrested for telling police he was headed for a home on Leggett Ave., in the Bronx — a location he had no real plans to inhabit, officials said.

Ramos is required, under Megan’s Law, to tell police where he’ll be living.

Magisterial District Court Judge James Tupper this morning set Ramos’ bail at $75,000 and ordered him back to court on Nov. 15.

The perv has spent more than 20 years behind bars for molesting children in the Keystone State.

As he walked out of jail this morning, on his way to court, Ramos gave rambling answers to questions posed by The Post.

Asked if he killed Patz, Ramos said: “Does your mother know you’re here?”

Asked why he’s been rearrested, Ramos nonsensically responded: “Because my pants are falling down.”

He declined to say whether he knew Pedro Hernandez, the New Jersey man who has confessed to killing Patz.

The white-bearded Ramos was dressed in a blue jail jumpsuit, waist shackles and white shoes, looking like a crazed, emaciated Santa Claus.

Patz remains the most famous missing kid in New York history.

Little Etan vanished on May 25, 1979 after leaving his SoHo apartment alone, for his first solo trip to a bus stop two blocks away.

Ramos was dating Etan’s babysitter at the time, and had long been considered a prime suspect.

Earlier this year, Hernandez, a schizophrenic Jersey man, confessed to murdering Etan.

He was charged in May, but there’s no clear physical evidence linking him to the crime, law enforcement sources have said.

Unless Ramos makes bail, he’ll be spending the next week at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility. He faces up to 10 years in prison for allegedly giving bad information on his post-release whereabouts.

Additional reporting by Josh Saul and David K. Li in New York