A 15-year-old boy says a man picked him up from school, drove him to “the middle of nowhere” and tried to have sex with him.

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26 New Zealand male survivors share their personal stories of sexual abuse

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Teacher Edwin John Downing is on trial at the High Court in Auckland. He has denied 13 charges, including sexual violation, sexual conduct with a young person and sexually grooming a young person.

The police interview of one of the two complainants was recorded on DVD and on Monday was played to the court.

The boy told the police he had met a man on the gay dating app Grindr.

He asked how old I was. I didn’t really want to tell him at first. I didn’t tell my age but told him I was still in school … I eventually told him I was 15 and he said that was OK.

The prosecutor said as part of the police investigation, officers received text messages sent to and from Downing’s phone. Some messages were of a sexual nature and sent to a person later identified as a 13-year-old boy.

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