Sex Offender Applies for School as a Boy

The top skills all Internet sex offenders possess are their ability to lie, persuade and disguise. Chat rooms are a favorite place where predators can lurk and seek their prey.

The graphic listing above (from a recent PSA campaign from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children) is a common sight for any online chat room where teens like to gather.

According to a new AP report:

A school in Phoenix, Arizona alerted authorities to a 29-year-old sex offender who tried to enroll there, pretending he was just 12, in what sheriff's officials said Friday may have been an attempt to lure children into sexual abuse.

A total of four men were in custody in the case Friday on various charges, including fraud, forgery, identity theft, and failure to register as a sex offender.

Detectives learned in interviews with the men that Rodreick convinced others that he was a boy after meeting him two years ago over the Internet. Rodreick apparently shaved his body hair and used makeup to keep up the guise.

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