Police: Adult Sex Offender Posed As Boy

This is an undated file photo released by the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office, Friday, Jan. 19, 2007 showing Neil Havens Rodreick II, 29.A convicted sex offender who posed as a 12-year-old boy to enroll in Arizona schools brought home children that had joined a skateboarding club he started in the northern Arizona town of Payson, police said. None of the children said they had been victimized, authorities said Friday Feb. 2, 2007. (AP Photo/Yavapai County Sheriff) (AP)

"None of them are victims, but I think he was setting something up for himself for personal pleasure," Tieman said.

The girl, who attends the YCFA Achieve Academy, told authorities she shrugged off Rodreick's behavior as immaturity. But when investigators told her that Rodreick was actually 29, she became very upset and started to cry, the report says. She was taken to a counselor.

After later admitting to officers his real name and age, Rodreick told them he never had sex with his classmates or the boys from the skateboarding club, authorities said.

Rodreick declined a request for an interview. His public defender has not returned calls for comment.

Rodreick was arrested with 34-year-old Brian J. Nellis, who authorities said was posing as Rodreick's cousin, and two older men who authorities said were posing as the men's uncle and grandfather.

Rodreick is charged with 15 criminal counts, including fraud, forgery and failing to register as a sex offender stemming from a 1996 Oklahoma incident in which Rodreick was convicted of lewdly propositioning a 6-year-old boy.

Nellis, Lonnie Eugene Stiffler, 61, and Robert James Snow, 43, have been indicted on various charges, including child pornography and forgery. Nellis and Snow, both convicted sex offenders, were also charged with failing to register with authorities.

When authorities searched the four men's Chino Valley home, they said they found more than 600 graphic photos and videos of child pornography.

They also said they found a sex tape that depicts Rodreick and a boy between the ages of 10 and 13 having sex in a motel room. Authorities believe the boy in the tape is from Oklahoma, but have not confirmed his identity.

Officials at the Chino Valley school and at charter schools east of Payson and in the Phoenix suburb of Surprise, say no children had reported being victimized.