3 "John Does" 1 "Jane Doe" - 9 to 12 - yo - / Convicted: Unnamed father and Patrick Rieder - Dayton, OH

Ohio man pleads guilty in adopted child rape case




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FILE-This undated file photo made available by the Montgomery County
Jail via The Daily News shows Patrick Rieder, 31, of Dayton, Ohio.

DAYTON, Ohio

(AP) — An Ohio man pleaded guilty Friday to raping a boy at the center of sexual abuse allegations that have already landed the boy's adoptive father and another man long prison sentences.

Following his plea, the Montgomery County prosecutor's office said Patrick Rieder was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years.

Rieder, 32, pleaded guilty to 27 counts including rape of a child under 13, pandering sexually oriented material involving a minor and illegal use of a minor in nudity oriented material or performance.

Authorities said the boy's adoptive father gave Rieder and another man access to the boy. The adoptive father brought the child to Rieder's Dayton home, where both men raped him, prosecutors alleged.

Rieder's attorney, Christopher Thompson, did not immediately return calls Friday.

The adoptive father pleaded guilty Nov. 2 to six counts of raping three young boys in his care in Miami County, where prosecutors have recommended a sentence of 60 years to life in prison in exchange for his guilty plea. He also pleaded guilty Dec. 20 in a Montgomery County court in Dayton to one count each of child rape and complicity to rape under a plea agreement that calls for 50 years to life in prison.

The adoptive father agreed to testify at Rieder's trial that had been scheduled for later this month, but Montgomery County prosecutor's spokesman Greg Flannagan said that sentencing may be moved up in light of Rieder's plea.

Montgomery County Prosecutor Mat Heck Jr. said after the adoptive father's plea that the father "will basically spend the rest of his natural life locked up and that certainly is a good disposition."

Authorities said the 40-year-old adoptive father had been caring for three boys and a girl in his Miami County home and adopted all of the children except for one of the boys, whom he was in the process of adopting.

The Associated Press isn't naming the adoptive father to protect the identities of the children, whose
ages at the time of the arrests ranged from 9 to 12.

The adoptive father told The Associated Press in an interview late last year that he was sorry for his actions and wanted to testify against Rieder and another man in Miami County who was charged with raping the boy.

The Miami County prosecutor said that the adoptive father arranged for Jason Zwick, of Beavercreek, to rape the boy. Zwick, 30, pleaded no contest Jan. 8 to one count of child rape in that case and was sentenced to 10 years to life in prison.

The adoptive father was arrested in February 2012 as the result of a detective's investigation of a person who went online seeking what was called "taboo" sex.

Rieder was also labeled a sex offender at his sentencing, meaning he would have to register his address every 90 days for the rest of his life if he ever leaves prison.

http://news.yahoo.com/ohio-man-pleads-guilty-adopted-child-rape-case-214149309.html

Rape of adopted Ohio kids unusual, haunting case

By DAN SEWELL | Associated Press – 3 hrs ago

TROY, Ohio (AP) — The one-story, brick ranch-style home blends into the working-class neighborhood along Nutmeg Square in this western Ohio city, offering no signs of the terrible secrets it once concealed.
Its former owner will return to court Tuesday in Dayton
to be sentenced for guilty pleas to child rape and related charges in a
haunting case that experts call unusual because the perpetrator was an adoptive father and the victims were three boys in his care. The pleas have all but ensured he will spend the rest of his life in prison.

The 40-year-old man, whom The Associated Press isn't naming to
protect the children's identities, said in an interview that he had been
a foster parent, youth basketball coach and substitute teacher for
years without any problems. He said he didn't adopt the boys with bad
intentions.

"I always wanted to protect kids," he said during one of two
interviews at the Miami County Jail. "Somewhere along the line, things
went wrong."

In an era of stunning cases of sexual abuse of young boys by
respected authority figures — priests, Boy Scout leaders, an assistant
coach at a famed football program — the repeated rapes of boys by an
adoptive father who also arranged for two other men to rape one adopted
son shocked his unsuspecting neighbors, investigators and children's
services officials.

"It was just devastating to hear about. It's really sad for the
kids," said April Long, a mother of three who was their next-door
neighbor. She and other neighbors say they didn't suspect anything; the
children played outside, and the man did neighborly things like pick up
their mail or mow their lawn when they were away.

"You think, 'What could I have done? Is there something we missed
that we should have seen?'" Long said, gazing at the home from her front
porch lined with children's bicycles.

The single man was a foster parent for six other children before he
began adopting children in the past three years. He adopted a brother
and sister and an unrelated boy, and was in the process of adopting
another boy, all ages 9-12, when authorities arrested him a year ago
Sunday following an undercover sting that began when a detective looked
into an online posting about "taboo sex."

Ohio officials don't believe there has been a comparable case in the
state in recent years, and media reports over the past five years show
only a handful of reported cases nationally in which adoptive fathers
sexually abused children in their care. Child abuse by adoptive fathers
is much rarer than by biological fathers, or by other male relatives and
non-relatives, federal studies have indicated.

"This isn't a typical situation. It certainly isn't typical of people seeking adoption," said David Finkelhor, director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center
at the University of New Hampshire. "Most abusers of this sort have an
interest in a child during a certain period of their development. They
are looking for opportunities where they can get access to the kids.
They don't want to have custodial responsibility."

Fostering and adopting children meant passing background checks and
other scrutiny, with home studies and follow-up visits by social
workers.

"There can be terrible, horrific
instances that no one at any level of government or the adoption system
foresaw," Benjamin Johnson, spokesman for the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, said of the case. "That can be a very difficult thing to reconcile ... and we think about that a lot."

The private adoption agency,
Dayton-based Action Inc., has said little about the case other than to
deny wrongdoing. The state reviewed its operations and noted some
procedural violations but no reason to suspend or revoke the agency's
license. All the children had been in Texas foster care before coming to
Ohio through the agency, one of many that work through interstate
agreements to find homes for some of the more than 100,000 children in foster care awaiting adoption at any given time in the United States.

The adoptive father said the three children appeared to be doing so well, he was asked by an agency employee to take a fourth.

The children were involved in sports, school and church and played
with other children. They went trick-or-treating — snapshots from two
Halloweens ago show the boys dressed as Green Lantern and Star Wars'
Darth Maul and the girl as a princess. They had Xboxes, Wiis and other
games and toys at home.

"I loved my kids and wanted the best for them," the man said.

He said he had been sexually abused as a child by a close family
member and blames that for his feeling that he wasn't do anything wrong
when he began taking the boys into his bed in what he claimed was a way
of showing love.

"I never forced the boys to do anything," he said. "That might not mean anything to anyone else, but it's important to me."

But his explanation doesn't account for subsequently inviting a man
to their Troy home to rape one of the boys, and then taking the same boy
to another man's home to be raped. He agreed that was wrong, although
he stressed that he didn't prostitute the boy by getting anything in
return.

Apparently, no child ever hinted at any problem when separated from him by case workers for interviews.

"I guess they just liked it there," the man said.

Police reported that when they interviewed the boy, then age 10, who
had also been raped by the two other men, he began "shaking," after
initially refusing to confirm that anything wrong had happened.

He told police he "didn't want to be taken from this home and
separated from his new brothers and sister," a police report stated.

After the man was arrested, the 9-year-old boy who hadn't been
adopted yet was returned to Texas social services authorities, while the
other three were placed in foster care in Ohio.

At a pretrial hearing last November, a child psychologist testified
about some three dozen therapy sessions he had had with the 10-year-old
boy, the Dayton Daily News reported.

"It is so traumatic within the security of my office, when he's
laying on a sofa, hugging a bear, to talk about these things," said
Gregory Ramey of The Children's Medical Center of Dayton.

The adoptive father has already been sentenced here to at least 60
years in prison. In Dayton, he is expected to be sentenced to at least
50 years, to run concurrently.

He said he agreed to plead guilty in hopes of sparing the children
from having to testify, that it "was the last good thing I could do for
them." In a jail interview, his eyes teared up and his voice choked as
he said he was sorry for the pain he had caused them.

In a letter from jail, he wrote: "I've been able to protect my kids from everything and everyone, except myself."
http://news.yahoo.com/rape-adopted-ohio-kids-unusual-haunting-case-165818115.html

Oh my god. I have no other words...

When this first happened I posted the articles but someone deleted them. It was unbelievable the things those children went through.

Yes, there are no words. They already had a sad life before going to this monster. Instead of making their life better he ruined it further.

I hope those poor children are getting psychological help to work through this. I feel so sorry for them.