Oklahoma City – Investigators said Tuesday that they will recommend felony molestation charges against a sex offender who passed himself off as a schoolboy, saying they have a videotape of him having sex with an 11-year-old Oklahoma boy.
Police identified Neil H. Rod reick II, 29, in the video by marks on his body, El Reno police Lt. Van Gillock said.
Rodreick was arrested last month when officials at a charter school in Arizona questioned the authenticity of his birth certificate and other enrollment documents. He had enrolled in four charter schools posing as a 12- or 13-year-old, records show.
Authorities said he shaved and wore makeup to appear younger, convincing teachers, students and administrators that he was a boy named Casey. Police believe that Rodreick also pretended to be a 13-year-old when he lived in El Reno from 2003 to 2005, Gillock said.
“There’s a skate park where the boys like to skateboard, and that’s where he hung out and skateboarded,” the officer said.
Rodreick and another convicted sex offender, Brian Nellis, 34, took the Oklahoma boy on a trip to the Grand Canyon during spring break in 2005, Gillock said. He said the boy’s mother contacted police in Arizona after learning Rodreick’s true identity.
Police in El Reno will recommend prosecutors charge him with lewd molestation or sodomy, Gillock said. If convicted, he would face a mandatory life sentence because of a previous conviction.
