A teacher picked a 15-year-old child up from outside their college, drove your to “the heart of nowhere” and attempted to have sexual intercourse with him, a court enjoys heard.
Teacher Edwin John Downing is on test during the tall judge in Auckland. He has got denied 13 costs, including intimate violation, intimate conduct with a new individual and intimately grooming a young people.
The authorities interview of a single of the two complainants was actually tape-recorded on DVD as well as on Monday ended up being played towards the court.
The guy advised the authorities he had satisfied a guy about homosexual dating software Grindr.
“He requested what age I became. I didn’t actually want to make sure he understands initially,” the child stated in his interview.
“i did son’t inform my personal years but told your I happened to be still at school … we at some point told your I became 15 and he mentioned that had been OK.”
The man mentioned the man granted him $200 to “do intimate stuff”. Continue reading Teacher implicated of sexually grooming, violating teenage males he satisfied on internet dating application