Murphy is 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.
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.
