Casting Director Is Registered Sex Offender
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A newspaper report says a casting assistant who helped choose child actors for "Cheaper By The Dozen 2" and other kid-friendly movies is a convicted child molester.
The Los Angeles Times reports that 35-year-old Jason James Murphy has worked with children in Hollywood for a decade by using the alias Jason James.
Murphy served five years in prison for the 1996 crime of kidnapping and molesting an 8-year-old boy in suburban Seattle and underwent sex-offender counseling.
Murphy registered as a sex offender in California in 2005 after moving here, but worked under a different name.
California law prohibits offenders like Murphy from working alone with minor children, or to have supervision or disciplinary power over children.
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