Justin Rieger, a teacher and Christian group leader from Taneytown, sexually assaulted more than half a dozen boys over the last several years — often in plain view of others — likely using money from investors and his position in the community to generate trust and gain unfettered access to teen boys, a Carroll County Sheriff’s Office report obtained by The Baltimore Sun shows.
The report details a pattern Rieger, who died by suicide last month at the age of 22, followed: Buy teen boys gifts, show interest in their lives and relationships with God, get a small group of boys alone in the home he shared with his parents and later, his wife, and encourage physical contact and nudity. Repeatedly, boys told authorities, he would expose himself to them or encourage them to expose themselves.
“It happens at every sleepover,” one boy told law enforcement…