A registered sex offender who had been convicted of assaulting an eight-year-old boy was later hired as a casting agent on a string of child-centric Hollywood blockbusters, without anyone on set knowing his real identity, RadarOnline.com has learned.

In 1996, Jason James Murphy, then a 19-year-old from suburban Seattle, Washington, was sentenced to nearly seven years for molesting and kidnapping a young boy who he met while working as a camp counselor, reported the Los Angeles Times.

Years later, the child abuser dropped his last name, and using the pseudonym Jason James, worked his way up the ranks of the casting industry to win coveted jobs on Super 8, Bad News Bears and The School Of Rock, where he worked with numerous young actors hoping to get their big break.