How the hell does this happen for so long? Only in America lol
A 29-year-old convicted sex offender has spent four months posing as a 12-year-old boy at a school, authorities in the US claim.
Neil Havens Rodreick II, who is 5ft 8ins and weighs eight and a half stone, shaved his body hair and covered his stubble with make-up to pass as a schoolboy.
He adopted the name Casey Price during his deception at the Imagine School in Phoenix, Arizona, last year before he was thrown out for poor attendance.
He allegedly pretended to be a youth for nearly two years, even convincing two men who had been looking for boys on the internet that he was a minor and getting them to pretend to be his relatives.
Neighbours in the suburb where they lived together said Casey built the occasional skateboard ramp and did wheelies on his bike down the streets.
At school he was seen as a shy, average student who handed in his homework but did not stay for activities after classes ended.
Authorities claim that after leading Lonnie Stiffler, 61, and Robert Snow, 43, to believe he was a youth, he talked them into taking him to live with them in Arizona, according to a US newspaper.
Stiffler reportedly posed as his grandfather and Snow as his uncle.
Both are said to have regularly had sex with him, and investigators believe another man living in the house, a 34-year-old sex offender called Brian Nellis who Rodreick met in prison, aided him in the ruse.
He was caught earlier this month when he went to a school in Chino Valley, Arizona, for a day and teachers got suspicious.
Investigators said he also went to lessons in another town in the state, Payson, for a few weeks in 2005.
Parents, pupils and teachers at all the schools are being interviewed but so far no youngsters have accused Rodreick of molesting them.
He spent seven years in prison after being being convicted in 1996 of lewdly propositioning a six-year-old boy in Oklahoma.
Rodreick, whose attempt to hide his stubble was apparently not entirely convincing, has been charged with forgery and fraud over the school incidents.
He is also accused of assault against a girl, although investigators have refused to release details of the allegation and will not say whether he met her through the school scam.
