"I was always like, playing sports... So I was always at the Rec Center. That's where I met Rick."

The young man you'll read about throughout this story is breaking his silence for the first time.  We'll call him John to protect his identity. 

John says he will always remember Charles "Rick" Rogers but he'll remember Rick for all the wrong reasons.

"Knowing that someone could just tell you they care about you and treat you like they're your own kid and then do that to you... I'll never forget this for the rest of my life," John says, fighting back tears.

Rogers is charged with befriending local boys and later drugging them and using them to produce child pornography. He's also charged with sexual assault of a minor. John, who is now 20, is one of his victims.

At age 10, John was essentially abandoned due to an alcoholic mother and totally absent father. That's when Rick Rogers entered his life.

"He told my mom that he'd be like a father figure for me - like since I didn't have anyone like that," John recalls. 

John says Rogers used his position at the Boulder City Recreation Center to get close to him, giving him access to the facilities before and after hours, letting him play in sports leagues for free and bringing him in to restricted areas that were off limits to most everyone else.

"I thought that (father figure) was what he was trying to be. I trusted him because he worked at the Rec Center and was also a teacher and I didn't think anything of it and everyone in Boulder City loved him and thought he was a great guy, thought he was really cool.  He was the soccer coach of my team and he was like the head of the Rec Center so I completely gave him all my trust."

Rogers was soon inviting John to spend the night at the home where he lived with his foster son.

"When I'd sleep over at their house, his son had just a little twin bed and he had a big huge king size bed and, um, when I'd spend the night there he'd tell me to sleep in his bed. And I didn't think anything of it.  I was just, ok, whatever. But then one night, he actually put his arm around me and I guess like tried to spoon with me, so I kinda got weirded out then. But I was, I guess, too stupid to see it because I was such a little kid."

He says that wasn't the only thing that he thought was odd.

"When we'd go swimming, he would not like it when we'd go in the house with wet bathing suits so he would actually tell me to take off my bathing suit and instead of me drying myself off, he would dry me off and I didn't have any clothes on. So I didn't like that at all. I thought that was really weird."

But John didn't know he was a victim until one night at Rogers' house.

"I would spend the night a lot, probably at least four days a week. And he would give me sleeping pills, well, he'd tell me they were sleeping pills--they'd help me sleep. And sometimes I would not like to take them so I would stash them on the side of the bed. But other times he'd actually sit there and make sure I would take them and I didn't like that at all, but he'd make me do it."

One night, John says he did not take the sleeping pills Rogers gave him.

"He thought I took them and I didn't. I stashed them behind the bed and I was almost asleep and he got up and he turned the light on and I thought he was probably just going to get a cup of water, but he wasn't. He went and grabbed his camera and then I was just like, I'm gonna act like I'm sleeping so he doesn't get mad at me for being awake and he pulls the covers off me and he pulled my pants down and started taking pictures of me with his camera. And I was just so scared because I didn't know if I woke up if he was gonna kill me because then I knew it was completely wrong... there was something going on. And I knew if I was to wake up he might just kill me so I don't tell anybody. So I was really scared. But then he kept taking pictures and then actually started to touch me and, uh, um, gave me oral sex and I just acted like I was sleeping the whole time."

That was in 1999. For 10 years, John never told a soul. Then, this April, news broke that Rogers was suspected of doing to others what John says he did to him.

The news reports pushed John overboard. 

"I was really, really stressed out, like thinking, cause I know he took pictures of me and maybe even video, I don't know. But I was just really stressed out that when people find out that that happened to me, what are they going to think of me? And so I got really sick and I was throwing up in my bathroom and I passed out and I got knocked out when I hit the floor. And I bled a lot of blood and I had to go to the hospital and I was in the hospital for four days. And they were doing a lot of tests on me and they didn't know what was wrong with me but it was all because of that."

Even so, John finally starting talking. First to his school counselor and then to his adoptive mother who he's lived with for the past four years.

"I would have never, ever told anybody if I didn't know there was somebody else, because I just thought that no one would believe me."

He says another reason he kept quiet was that he was intimidated by and scared of Rick Rogers.

"I was terrified. I was completely scared out of my mind when I was around him even just like thinking if he knew that I know what's going on that he could just kill me. Because I thought he was very smart and I thought he could easily just kill me."

And he says that wasn't just because he was a scared kid. 

"He would show me his guns because he used to be a cop. He would show me all his guns and his gun case. And he knew a lot of karate moves because he knew how to fight because he was a cop, so he was pretty intimidating."

John told his story to police and is now one of the victims behind the criminal charges Rogers is facing.

"He is into kids that have messed up lives that don't have really good parenting figures, I would say. And I was shown pictures and there was at least five people that I knew right off hand that I'm friends with that it happened to."

He's also just filed a civil suit against Boulder City and the Rec Center.

He says because he spent so much time there, including coming and going in Rogers' personal vehicle, that everyone who worked at the Rec Center knew how close their relationship was, including the fact that they would take vacations together.

"To California to the beach, to Brianhead for snowboarding. We'd go for like a week or two at a time and we'd go a few times a year.  It was completely known. And sometimes other kids would also go and we'd meet there."

John's adoptive mother is supporting him in his suit against the city.

"I think everyone pacified themselves with the assurance that he's a school teacher, he's a Rec Center employee, he has a good heart and mind and they buried their head in the sand and no one wanted to be the person to stand up to say this is strange behavior. He's paying too much attention to these young children outside of the structured activity that he's involved in and it should have been a red flag," she says.

John thinks, "The Rec Center should have taken more precaution and had set better rules because it's obvious when you're taking someone to play in the gymnastics room or shoot basketballs at 12 at night and closing hours and you're hanging out with kids that aren't yours or that you have no business to be around, someone should see that in the Rec Center and the Rec Center should have rules to where they shouldn't let kids go home, spend the night or go on trips with you outside of any sport."

"He was preying on these kids," says Attorney Jason Naimi who's representing John in his civil suit.

"There's just so much evidence out there that we have to show that they were either aware or just completely negligent in their oversight of their employees and so they need to be held accountable for it. They've got a responsibility to step in and question him and make sure that what he's doing is legitimate and that there's no ulterior motive," Naimi says.

No one from the Rec Center on up to City Manager Vicki Mayes would talk to us for this story. But John is finally talking and he wants his message heard loud and clear.

"I would like Rick to know that I'm not one of the little kids that he does his things to anymore. I'm not ten years old anymore. And I'm grown up now and I'm not scared to--well, I'm scared of him, but--I'm gonna make sure something happens because I'm gonna do something about it. And I know there's a lot of the other kids that he has done this to that are still young and they're too scared to come out and say something but I'm not that anymore."

John's mother wants rules put in place to help prevent predators from having the opportunity to prey. She says it could be as simple as keeping teachers and coaches from fraternizing with children outside the structured atmosphere of the classroom, practice or sporting events.

There is no such policy in place at the School District or the City of Boulder City. We reached out to Rick Rogers and his attorney, but both declined comment. Police tell us they're still investigating Rogers' case.

They ask anyone who believes they may have been a victim but hasn't reported to police, to please do so. Rogers currently faces 68 charges. His preliminary hearing is June 30.