Man faked Down syndrome to con caregivers into baths and diaper changes.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

An Arizona man is accused of pretending to have Down syndrome so he could hire caregivers who bathed him and changed his diapers, authorities said.

Police arrested Paul Anthony Menchaca, 31, at his parents’ home in Gilbert on Sept. 6 after his female caregivers discovered he didn’t have special needs, news station KTNV reported.

The first caregiver responded in May to an ad on CareLinx, a site designed to help families find licensed help.

Menchaca contacted and hired the helper while allegedly posing as a woman named “Amy,” who claimed to be the mother of a man with Down syndrome, according to AZFamily.

https://nypost.com/2018/09/13/man-faked-down-syndrome-to-con-caregivers-into-baths-diaper-changes-cops/

[Siwsan]

1. The red-lines the creep meter, for sure

[Floyd R. Turbo]

2. Just when you think you've heard it all! 🤬

[maxrandb]

3. I thought Steve Bannon was from California?

[FakeNoose]

4. I think I'm sorry I read that

[3catwoman3]

12. No kidding. I cannot think of ANYTHING...

...for which I would be willing to lie in bed a defecate into a diaper and wait for someone to clean me up.

[FakeNoose]

14. If you read the OP article

... he would get "aroused" when the female nurses bathed him. I'm sure the nurses didn't do anything to bring that about either, he's just a weird person.

[3catwoman3]

15. Oh, I read it. With disgust.

Weird doesn't begin to cover it. Sexual arousal is all well and good, of course, but not if you have to sit in a soiled diaper in order to achieve it.

[Ilsa]

5. Criminal actions like that make life harder

for people with real need for assistance and respite. They should be ashamed of themselves.

[Dave Starsky]

6. Well, that's one way to meet women.

I mean, if Match.com and Tinder aren't working out for you.

[HAB911]

7. What's he doing in AZ?

He needs to be in FL

Florida man..............

[3catwoman3]

8. How the hell do you...

...fake Down syndrome?

That is disgusting, pathetic, and reprehensible.

[MiniMe]

9. I agree. You can usually tell if somebody has downs by the way they look

It is one of the few ailments that you can tell by looking at a person. One look at his ugly picture and I knew he didn't have downs. The eyes aren't right for somebody with Downs.

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[3catwoman3]

10. I have been a pediatric nurse practitioner for 42 years.

I have only seen ONE child in all that time whose facial features were so subtle that I was surprsied when I read his diagnosis. He was several months old the one and only time I examined him.

[Hekate]

11. Right. It used to be called Mongolism, bcs of the distinctive eye shape that is part of the syndrome

This guy is a sicko -- he's got "special" needs, all right, kind of like David Vitter does.

[3catwoman3]

16. He looks like George...

...Zimmerman.

[Solly Mack]

13. He's a sexual predator.

He lured women in with lies on top of lies to get his sexual thrills. He preyed on those who work to make life more comfortable for those in need. He used their sense of decency against them - not to question the legitimacy of someone seeking help on a site meant for families needing actual help.

Yes, people can wonder how the women didn't know he wasn't what he claimed - but they weren't hired to determine where the man fell on the spectrum - they were hired as caregivers and might not have known. People with Down syndrome present a wide spectrum of physical, cognitive, and social characteristics and abilities - the ignorance/naivete/trust of the caregivers in no way changes that they were the victims of a sexual predator.

They figured it out and they confronted the sicko. Hopefully the asshole will spend a full decade in prison.