Salvation Army man faces sex charges

A Salvation Army captain has been charged with eight sex offences after a year-long police investigation.

Maxwell Lawrence Trimble, 61, faces two charges of indecent assault, four of inducing sexual connection by coercion, one of attempted sexual violation and one charge of sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection.

He entered no plea when he appeared in the Waihi District Court yesterday. He was bailed to reappear on September 14.

The assaults are alleged to have taken place between late 2003 and mid 2005, while Trimble served at the Tauranga, Mount Maunganui and Waihi Salvation Army centres.