A football coach is facing police allegations that he posed on Facebook as a female model then lured a teenage girl for sex with promises of lucrative modelling work.
Wellington man Alejandro Gonzalez Mendez recommended himself to the victim as a modelling photographer and manager, police claim, but posing as a female South American exchange student encouraged sexual activity with himself.
The 36-year-old - who has a partner and two New Zealand-born children - is now in custody charged with sexual offending against two girls aged under 16.
Police are set to lay new charges in relation to at least eight other victims. They allege he sexually groomed, "blackmailed" and supplied drugs to the girls.
Wellington District Child Protection Team officer in charge Detective Senior Sergeant Neil Holden described the alleged actions of the former Wainuiomata Association Football Club women's coach as "damaging and serious offending".