# 29 Year Old Man Passes as 12 Year Old **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 25, 2007, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/29-year-old-man-passes-as-12-year-old/389472 "2007-01-25T22:00:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/29-year-old-man-passes-as-12-year-old/389472/1 "2007-01-25T22:00:36Z")
And, oh by the way has sex with at least one child. And a couple of grown men. And the sex with the kid part may have been facilitated by the fact that he was ENROLLED IN THE SEVENTH GRADE! Are you fucking kidding me? Can this possibly be true? [http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/01/25/sex.ruse.ap/index.html?eref=rss\_topstories](http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/01/25/sex.ruse.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories) ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/29-year-old-man-passes-as-12-year-old/389472/2 "2007-01-25T22:10:05Z")
SURPRISE! Could a town name be any more appropriate? ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/29-year-old-man-passes-as-12-year-old/389472/3 "2007-01-25T22:15:46Z")
[QUOTE=Beadalin] SURPRISE! Could a town name be any more appropriate? [/QUOTE] I missed that. And the name of the school was Imagine. And they dropped him for (drum roll) poor attendance! Yikes. ---
**Author:** ![Cowboy8467](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5e925/32.png) [@Cowboy8467](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowboy8467)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/29-year-old-man-passes-as-12-year-old/389472/4 "2007-01-25T22:18:44Z")
I would have thought that there would be enough characteristics about him to make people suspicious sooner. Wouldn’t his voice have been deeper than most of the students there? I saw his picture and while he did look young, he didn’t look **that** young. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/29-year-old-man-passes-as-12-year-old/389472/5 "2007-01-25T22:21:42Z")
[QUOTE=Cowboy8467] I would have thought that there would be enough characteristics about him to make people suspicious sooner. Wouldn’t his voice have been deeper than most of the students there? I saw his picture and while he did look young, he didn’t look **that** young. [/QUOTE] You’d think. Plus, he was screwing those other adults, and living in their house. What was he doing, waking early every morning to shave? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/29-year-old-man-passes-as-12-year-old/389472/6 "2007-01-25T22:34:18Z")
The best part of this story is that the two old guys were shocked (_shocked!_) when they learned that they had been duped, and the guy they were buggering was not, in fact, 12 years old. ---
**Author:** ![Cowboy8467](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5e925/32.png) [@Cowboy8467](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowboy8467)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/29-year-old-man-passes-as-12-year-old/389472/7 "2007-01-25T22:37:55Z")
[QUOTE=friedo] The best part of this story is that the two old guys were shocked (_shocked!_) when they learned that they had been duped, and the guy they were buggering was not, in fact, 12 years old. [/QUOTE] Yes, they were indeed mighty disappointed to find out that they weren’t actually having sex with a 12 year old. Jesus… ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/29-year-old-man-passes-as-12-year-old/389472/8 "2007-01-25T23:05:06Z")
[QUOTE=friedo] The best part of this story is that the two old guys were shocked (_shocked!_) when they learned that they had been duped, and the guy they were buggering was not, in fact, 12 years old. [/QUOTE] brings to mind if they could be charged w/a crime - their intent was clear. kinda like those online idiots who solicit “minors” and show up to Dateline. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/29-year-old-man-passes-as-12-year-old/389472/9 "2007-01-25T23:08:38Z")
He does not look 12. He doesn’t even look 29 to me, and I should know since I’m 29. I don’t see how people got fooled. ---
**Author:** ![Cowboy8467](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5e925/32.png) [@Cowboy8467](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowboy8467)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/29-year-old-man-passes-as-12-year-old/389472/10 "2007-01-25T23:20:00Z")
[QUOTE=monstro] He does not look 12. He doesn’t even look 29 to me, and I should know since I’m 29. I don’t see how people got fooled. [/QUOTE] You think that he looks older than 29? ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/29-year-old-man-passes-as-12-year-old/389472/11 "2007-01-25T23:20:13Z")
[QUOTE=wring] brings to mind if they could be charged w/a crime - their intent was clear. kinda like those online idiots who solicit “minors” and show up to Dateline. [/QUOTE] They where charged with attempted child abuse if im not mistaken. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/29-year-old-man-passes-as-12-year-old/389472/12 "2007-01-25T23:21:47Z")
[QUOTE=DigitalC] They where charged with attempted child abuse if im not mistaken. [/QUOTE] Not yet. > [@](#): > > All four were charged with conspiracy to commit fraud and conspiracy to commit forgery, and Rodreick, Snow and Nellis were charged with failing to register as sex offenders. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2007, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/29-year-old-man-passes-as-12-year-old/389472/13 "2007-01-26T00:28:45Z")
[QUOTE=Cowboy8467] You think that he looks older than 29? [/QUOTE] It’s hard to say based on just that one picture - but going off only that I’d guess 35 maybe. I’d like to know how big he is. 7th graders are still very small. I’m a pretty large adult (6’4", 195lbs) and I remember being 5’1" and I doubt 100lbs yet in 7th grade. Even if this guy is a small adult - say 5’7", 135lbs, that should’ve thrown up a red flag. A 5 o’clock shadow and deep voice should’ve been a red flag. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2007, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/29-year-old-man-passes-as-12-year-old/389472/14 "2007-01-26T00:51:06Z")
[QUOTE=Cisco] It’s hard to say based on just that one picture - but going off only that I’d guess 35 maybe. I’d like to know how big he is. 7th graders are still very small. I’m a pretty large adult (6’4", 195lbs) and I remember being 5’1" and I doubt 100lbs yet in 7th grade. Even if this guy is a small adult - say 5’7", 135lbs, that should’ve thrown up a red flag. A 5 o’clock shadow and deep voice should’ve been a red flag. [/QUOTE] He’s got tell-tale lines on his face. He’s got a little boy haircut–true–but the face is a grown-ass man’s. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2007, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/29-year-old-man-passes-as-12-year-old/389472/15 "2007-01-26T01:01:19Z")
If I were 29, and people who had seen me naked thought I was 12, that would be pretty embarrassing. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2007, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/29-year-old-man-passes-as-12-year-old/389472/16 "2007-01-26T01:10:11Z")
There’s a “No Child Left Behind” joke in here somewhere… ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2007, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/29-year-old-man-passes-as-12-year-old/389472/17 "2007-01-26T01:10:54Z")
I have a coworker who is very short for a man. He’s not a little person, but he’s barely 5’ tall. He was recently on a business trip and decided to take a swim in the hotel pool. The lifeguard told him that no one under 16 is allowed in the pool without a parent. People can be bad judges of age. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2007, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/29-year-old-man-passes-as-12-year-old/389472/18 "2007-01-26T01:13:09Z")
[QUOTE=Beadalin] SURPRISE! Could a town name be any more appropriate? [/QUOTE] NOT ONLY did the event take place deep in _Chino Valley_, look at the name of the pedophile who posed as his grandfather…Stiffler. Are we sure this is on the level, and not a Wikipedia prank? Sailboat ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2007, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/29-year-old-man-passes-as-12-year-old/389472/19 "2007-01-26T01:28:31Z")
[QUOTE=monstro] He’s got tell-tale lines on his face. He’s got a little boy haircut–true–but the face is a grown-ass man’s. [/QUOTE] He probably told them he started smoking a pack a day at 8 years old. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2007, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/29-year-old-man-passes-as-12-year-old/389472/20 "2007-01-26T01:52:00Z")
[QUOTE=monstro] He’s got tell-tale lines on his face. He’s got a little boy haircut–true–but the face is a grown-ass man’s. [/QUOTE] Yeah, it might be the orange jumpsuit or the eye-bags, but I have trouble picturing this guy getting away with buying a kiddie ticket at the cinema, let alone attending classes as a 7th-grader. Surely his 12-year-old classmates realized something was amiss, even if the credulous adults managed not to notice. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/29-year-old-man-passes-as-12-year-old/389472.md?page=2)