Father 'raped his three adopted children and pimped them out to other men'... AND he was in the process of adopting a fourth

Father 'raped his three adopted children and pimped them out to other men'... AND he was in the process of adopting a fourth

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 12:00 AM on 1st March 2012



The man, 39, pictured, who Mail Online is not naming to protect the identity of the children, has been charged with raping his adopted children


An adoptive father is accused of raping three of his children and allowing men to have sex with at least one of them.

The 39-year-old from Western Ohio, who Mail Online is not naming to protect the identity of the children, was also in the process of adopting a fourth child.

The junior league basketball coach, who has been suspended by authorities in Troy, is charged with three counts of rape and one count of compelling prostitution.

Two other men - Jason Zwick, 29 of Beavercreek and Patrick Rieder, 31 of Dayton - have been accused of having sex with one of the children, a 10-year-old-boy.

'We’re hoping that we don’t have any other (victims) and we hope that we have stopped this before it got any further,' Troy police Capt. Chris Anderson said.

An investigation into how the adoptions took place will be carried out by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.

'We are absolutely pulling the paperwork from this case and staff is looking through it,' said Ben Johnson of ODJFS.



Patrick Rieder, 31, left and Jason Zwick, 29, right, are both accused of having sex with the adoptive father's 10-year-old son


'The allegations are heinous, horrific, awful.'

The man had adopted three children and was in the process of adopting a fourth who lived with him – a nine-year-old girl and three boys, ages 9, 10 and 12, according to authorities.

The children - who are not all birth siblings - were adopted in 2011 from Texas via a private adoption agency.

Police were told that the man had been communicating online with an undercover detective and was making arrangements to allow him to have sex with a 10-year-old boy on Sunday, reports Radio Whio.

That same detective had communicated online with two men who were claiming to have had sex with the boy.

One of the boys said that his adoptive father had allowed Rieder and Zwick to have sex with him, according to a police report.

During questioning, the adoptive dad admitted having sex with the 10-year-old about 10 times, the report says according to Radio Whio.

He also told police that Zwick had sex with the boy, but denied Rieder’s involvement.

The boy initially refused to tell the police anything because he was afraid he would separated from his new brothers and sister.

But when police asked him to help them protect his siblings , he broke down and told police he had sex - spelling out the word - with Rieder and Zwick, reports Radio Whio.

He said his adoptive father had sex with him two to three times a week since he had arrived at the home.

The two other boys also told police that he had sex with them.

Zwick was arraigned Wednesday morning and is being held in the Miami County Jail on $500,000 bond. He was charged with felony sexual penetration.

No charges had been filed against Rieder but he is due to appear in court Wednesday. A preliminary hearing for the adoptive dad is set for March 6.