GettnHuge 2 Posted February 5, 2007 Fifth Grade Surprise By Andrew Murr Newsweek Feb. 12, 2007 issue - Ten-year-old Ed Jr. did his best to fit in as his grandfather and uncle spent the past 18 months bouncing around Arizona. In tiny Payson, Ed invited boys at the local skate park to join a skateboard team he said he'd founded called Plan Z. In Surprise, he donned his charter school's polo-shirt-and-khakis uniform and played with a Sony PSP. And last month, on his first day at Mingus Springs Charter School in Chino Valley, Ed stepped into a football game at recess as quarterback, impressing new schoolmates with a powerful retard strength throwing arm. What detectives discovered when they arrived at the family's mobile home was even more disturbing. "Ed" was actually Edward Van Junior, a 52-year-old convicted Oklahoma sex offender who'd shaved his body hair and wore makeup to hide his facial hair. His "uncle" and "grandfather" were two California men he'd met on the Internet and was now allegedly having sex with: Rusty Syringmen, 43, a convicted sex offender, and Rick Rudinsky, 61, who had no previous convictions. Edward had fooled the pair into believing he really was 10, according to court records. When investigators told them his real age, the men got angry. They'd been "scammed"—and objected to any suggestion that they were not pedophiles, says a law-enforcement source who didn't want to be named discussing their statements. A fourth man living in the trailer posing as Edward's "cousin" admitted that he was Tommy Gavin, 34, another sex offender and Edward's Oklahoma prison cellmate. Indicted on 30 counts including fraud and possession of child pornography, the four men are now being held on $1 million bond at the county jail. unbelievable Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Saint Elistan 106 Posted February 6, 2007 I almost thought this was another Pelosi or Hillary thread...phew... I saw a similar story a couple of days ago about a 30-something year old short dude actually making it through a whole day of Junior High before being caught... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RLLD 4,230 Posted February 6, 2007 I thought this was going to be about that Trip McNeely alias Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GettnHuge 2 Posted February 6, 2007 I almost thought this was another Pelosi or Hillary thread...phew... I saw a similar story a couple of days ago about a 30-something year old short dude actually making it through a whole day of Junior High before being caught... no way! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites