Prosecutors file charges against man accused of duping women into changing his diapers

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Prosecutors with the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office on Wednesday filed charges against a man arrested last week for posing as a handicapped person to dupe caregivers into changing his adult diapers.

Rutledge Deas IV, 29, on Friday was set to enter a plea to four counts of human trafficking as well as misdemeanor drug charges in front of Criminal District Court Judge Arthur Hunter. But, at the request of attorneys on both sides of the case, Hunter continued that hearing until Monday.

According to investigators, the unusual scam carried out by Deas victimized at least four women, and he attributed his actions to severe trauma he claimed he had endured during his childhood.

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The woman said she changed Cory’s soiled diapers, at his request, various times at several different locations. He would suck on a baby’s pacifier and became visibly aroused during the changes, documents alleged.

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Under questioning, Deas told troopers he derived no sexual pleasure from the encounters with the woman who reported him — or in similar interactions with three other women who regularly babysat him while he posed as Cory.

Deas has remained in jail on $1.5 million bail since his arrest. Jail officials on Friday said he is under suicide watch, which was first reported Wednesday by WDSU-TV.

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