Nicholas Rossi

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Nicholas Rossi (July 11, 1987 – June 25, 2026), also known as Nicholas Alahverdian and Arthur Knight, among other aliases, was an American sex offender and child welfare activist who faked his own death in 2020. Rossi alleged that he suffered abuse and negligence from the Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF), Rhode Island's social service system. In support of this allegation, he sued the DCYF in federal court in 2011, then voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit when Rhode Island waived his medical expenses debt of around $200,000. In January 2020, Rossi said that he had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. In February 2020, news outlets reported Rossi's death, citing his family's anonymous testimony and his obituary. The reports of his death were disputed, as they occurred after the FBI initiated a fraud investigation against him, while Rhode Island police had issued a warrant for him for failure to register as a sex offender. In October 2021, Rossi was identified in a hospital...

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