Posted on 07/22/2023 9:59:52 AM PDT by lowbridge
A pint-sized 26-year-old Nebraska man posed as teenage student to “blend in” at two high schools last year — and now he’s been nabbed on sexual assault and sex trafficking charges, officials alleged.
Using the alias Zak Hess, Zachary Scheich pretended to be a 17-year-old junior to enroll at Northwest High School in Lincoln and then transferred to Southeast High School to commit the alleged crimes, the Journal Star reported, citing local police.
“I’ve been in the district for 10 years, and this is the first time that I can remember something like this happening,” Lincoln public schools security chief Joe Wright told WLKN.
Scheich “blended in with other students” and spent a total of 54 days at both schools during the 2022-23 academic year, Assistant Police Chief Brian Jackson said.
The diminutive suspect — who is 5-foot-4 and weighs 120 pounds — graduated from Southeast High in 2015, officials said.
Police began a fraud investigation on June 1 after receiving a tip about an alleged impersonator named Zak Hess, who contacted female students by phone or computers, KETV reported.
None of the alleged crimes occurred on school property, police said, adding that there is a list of suspected victims who have not yet been interviewed and that there could be more who have not been identified.
Scheich was arrested Thursday at a local library and charged with two counts of sexual assault using an electronic device and one count of sexual trafficking of a minor.
Lincoln Public Schools faced questions about how a man in his mid-20s managed to enroll in the first place.
Wright said the minimum requirements for enrolling in a public high school are a birth certificate, immunization records and transcripts – but the suspect allegedly provided fake documents.
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“I get older, they stay the same age.”
Can’t he just change his name to Hunter Biden and get a free pass?
Reporter error: the station is KLKN, not WLKN
Who would want to do that you ask?? I have encountered a few in my classes, they are the Peter Pan types. They refuse to grow up and leave the school system or go out into the real world.
Scheich was arrested Thursday at a local library and charged with two counts of sexual assault using an electronic device and one count of sexual trafficking of a minor.
What kind of "device?" Vibrator? Cell phone? Power drill? Give us a hint, why dontcha?
Regards,
obviously a hate crime by them to charge him, he was simply identifying as a teen the same as those men who identify as women!
teenophobe!
I think I recognize the "loophole" here.
Even parents opposed to COVID shots and/or parents of homeschooled kids will, in all likelihood, still have their birth certificates.
So to accommodate all the bearded "children" of Middle Eastern persuasion and tattooed gang-bangers, the requirements were dropped.
Regards,
Oddly shaped head, looks like a piece of candy corn. Either that or the photo was stretched vertically.
They didn’t say against which gender his crimes were committed but my gaydar is pegged.
Don’t the schools require a parent, guardian, emancipation document to register?
Reminds me of the Drew Barrymore movie, Never Been Kissed (1999). Drew plays a junior copywriter for a big chicago newspaper. Her boss decides that the paper will do a story on modern day teenage culture. So, he sends in Drew to go undercover as a student in a high school.
Her older brother decides to follow suit and enroll himself (with the help of fake IDs) in the same high school. Partly to help his sister in her research, but mostly because he wants to relive his old high school days when he was the most popular boy. Indeed, once again, he becomes the most popular boy in school.
Spoiler alert:
By the end of the movie, the brothers cover is blown (by his own sister). But instead of getting arrested and going to prison, he ends up becoming the coach of the schools baseball team.
Isn’t that one of Snow Mexican’s magical companions?
Also, he is biracial.
"Teachers" do the crimes in the schools... guess they spotted the competition. "She was 12 I was almost 20' - Joe Biden
“I am Hillary Clinton”
“I am Oprah Winfrey”
Either would work.
you got it. The left is perfectly ok with illegal immigrant adults spreading disease in schools, pretending to be HS school age, and raping american girls (and probably boys too)
Not too many high-schoolers with receding hairline.
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