Posing as a Family, Sex Offenders Stun a Town

NY Times ^ | February 1, 2007 | JENNIFER STEINHAUER

[Stone Mountain]

February 1, 2007
Posing as a Family, Sex Offenders Stun a Town

By JENNIFER STEINHAUER

EL MIRAGE, Ariz., Jan. 31 — To neighbors, Casey Price was a seventh grader with acne and a baseball cap who lived an unremarkable life among a bevy of male relatives. [...]

In nearby Surprise, where Casey was enrolled as a 12-year-old in a public school for four months, he was regarded as a shy, average student with chronic attendance problems. A man identified as his uncle had registered him, attended curriculum night and e-mailed his teachers about homework assignments.

Now Casey is in jail, and his former neighbors and classmates have learned the unthinkable: Not only is Casey not Casey — his real name is Neil H. Rodreick II — but he is also a 29-year-old convicted sex offender who kept a youthful appearance with the aid of razors and makeup.

And the men known as his uncle, grandfather and cousin, who until recently shared a three-bedroom house with him here, were not family at all, but a web of convicted sex offenders and predators, law enforcement officials say, preying in part on one another.

A retracing of Mr. Rodreick’s tracks over the past several years shows that he is under investigation in three states. The authorities in four jurisdictions say he repeatedly failed to register as a sex offender, housed a large cache of child pornography in his computer and, based on videos found by the police, had sex with at least one boy.

[kinoxi]

The depravity.

[Bahbah]

This is scary stuff.

[verum ago]

whoa.

[Thunder90]

Sick wackos who rape children like him should be executed.

[FormerACLUmember]

Four fewer democrat voters on the streets.

[beaversmom]

Holy crap--my friend raises her 12 year old grandson in Surprise. I hope he didn't come across these perverts.

[ikka]

NYT does not see the correlation between this behavior and their pro-gay, pro-abortion, pro-transsexual/etc., morally relativistic stance.

[pandoraou812]

But for how long? Some moronic judge will allow them back on the streets...They ought to be tossed into general prison population and let inmate justice take care of them.

[FormerACLUmember]

Just 4 misunderstood gays. Why, lets make them all scoutmasters.

[theFIRMbss]

>And the men known as his uncle, grandfather and cousin, who until recently shared a three-bedroom house with him here, were not family at all, but a web of convicted sex offenders and predators

The mainstream always
likes to pretend these scumbags
work alone because

they are so sick, but
there often seem to be groups
working together . . .

[gcruse]

"preying in part on one another"

Well, you know, the family that preys together...

[BARLF]

I'm glad someone had the sense to tell a 29 year old man from a 12 year old boy.

Unbelievable.

[mamelukesabre]

How the * does a 29 year old pass himself off as a 12 year old????

Something is fishy with this story. I don't care how much shaving and makup wearing goes on. What'd he do, castrate himself at age 12 and stunt his growth with some chemical?

[Ramius]

Wow. That's amazing that a 29yr old could successfully pass himself off as a 12yr old? Staggering.

[Republicus2001]

child rape USED to be a capital offense

[garylmoore]

They ought to be tossed into general prison population and let inmate justice take care of them.

But then, they would probably enjoy that.

[Old Professer]

Consensual or con-sensual?

[Rakkasan1]

must have some helluva perceptive teachers there.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

I don't care how much shaving and makup wearing goes on. What'd he do, castrate himself at age 12 and stunt his growth with some chemical?

Apparently he was just small,

“He absolutely looked age-appropriate,” said Rhonda Cagle, a spokeswoman for Imagine Charter School, of Mr. Rodreick, who is listed on the Oklahoma Department of Corrections Web site as 5 feet 8 inches tall and 120 pounds. “We have several seventh-grade students who are taller and of a larger build than this individual.”

On the other hand, it was also the school that eventually got suspicous enough to figure it out.

It wasn’t working. “Every adult that encountered him said something here is not right,” she said. “He just looked older. They kept saying, ‘Are you sure he is 12?’ ” When information on his enrollment forms turned out to be fiction, school officials, believing they had an abducted older child on their hands, called the Yavapai sheriff’s office.