An Uptown man is accused of posing as a mentally challenged adult in order to coerce at least one college student he hired as a babysitter to change his diaper for his own sexual gratification, according to a warrant for the man’s arrest.A warrant for the arrest of 29-year-old Rutledge Deas IV, stated Detective Nicole Barbe believed Deas tricked the babysitters into thinking he was an 18-year-old man with Autism and other special needs so they would change his diaper “to satisfy what I believe to be autonepiophilia/ paraphilic infantilism (adult diaper fetish).”Deas was booked into the Orleans Justice Center jail early Thursday and appeared later that morning on 10 counts of sexual battery, 10 counts of human trafficking, possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia, court records show. Orleans Magistrate Judge Harry Cantrell appointed the Orleans Public Defender’s Office to represent him and set his bond at a total of $1,503,000. Deas admitted to investigators he fraudulently portrayed himself as disabled to take advantage of the babysitters but denied he received sexual gratification from the diaper changes, the affidavit stated. He also admitted he masturbated to “diaper porn” but claimed any physical signs of being aroused while having his diaper changed were involuntary. Deas told investigators he was sexually traumatized at a young age and suffered from depression, anxiety and other mental health problems but that he had not been diagnosed with autism and had no physical disability, the affidavit states. He graduated high school and opened a tech company that develops apps, he told investigators. Deas said he liked to be “cared for as an infant because it brings him back to a time and place where he was at peace prior to his own trauma,” according to the affidavit. Deas admitted to police he had three other female babysitters who change his diapers.“He admitted to having paid the women their hourly babysitting rate to perform these acts with him, fully aware they were unable to consent to his ‘role playing’ because they truly believed he was mentally handicapped and that they were doing their job,” the affidavit states.A college student who the warrant refers to as the victim told police she signed up to babysit mentally and physically informed special needs individuals in early 2018 through the “Urban Babysitter” app.She connected with Deas, who expressed he was seeking a babysitter for his younger 18-year-old brother, "Cory," who Deas said was “fairly independent” but “on the autistic spectrum” and needed his diaper changed and to be "looked after like a small child would" when he regressed. The college student babysat “Cory” several times, she told police, and changed his diaper six times at two different Prytania Street addresses, twice at her dorm room, once at the Walmart on Tchoupitoulas and once at the Prytania Street coffee shop MoJo, the affidavit states.The student had not, to her knowledge, met Deas in person, though she had received pictures of “Cory” and an older person she was led to believe was Deas, the affidavit states. When Deas tried to pay the victim via Venmo, she looked up his profile out of curiosity, and noticed he had received money from a person named Andre. She looked up Andre’s full name on Facebook, and among Andre’s friends she found a profile for Rory Deas.She “immediately recognized (Rory Deas) to be the ‘Cory’ she had babysat and whose diaper she had changed several times over the course of a year.”“She stated she was immediately mortified and contacted the Urban Babysitter app to report her suspicions,” the warrant states. She received a response saying Deas’ account had been removed.Detectives learned the phone number the student believed to be Deas’ was registered to Rutledge Deas, and the phone number she was told belonged to “Cory” was a Google number that was also registered to Rutledge Deas.The student picked Deas out of a photo lineup as the person she babysat and who she was led to believe was “Cory.”Deas also admitted methamphetamine investigators found in his room belonged to him, telling police it helped with his post-traumatic stress disorder and attention deficit disorder, the affidavit stated.