A teacher has been arrested for raping male students and making them have sex with each other in front of him.

The suspect has been named as Mateus Jose Mendes, 50, and he was arrested on suspicion of raping at least four students and also forcing them to have sex with each other in front of him in Nova Iguacu de Goias, in the central Brazilian state of Goias, on Wednesday, 29th March.

Mendes was arrested after one of his alleged victims, now aged 15, came forwards and said that he had been abused since the age of 10.

Another victim, reportedly aged 18, claimed that the teacher first abused him when he was 10 years old as well.

The teacher had been working in the city for at least 15 years.

There are currently four known alleged victims but more may come forwards.

Police chief Peterson Amin said: “He was enticing male students to go to his residence and there he committed crimes of sexual abuse.

“He also taught football and when they went to get the ball to play the match, he asked to ‘get the ball’ at his house and practised various abuses there.”

The teacher allegedly forced young boys to have sex with him and with each other while he masturbated.

Newsflash obtained a statement and photos from the Civil Police of Nova Iguacu de Goias on Thursday, 30th March, saying: “The Subdelegation of Police of Nova Iguaçu de Goiás carried out a preventive arrest warrant yesterday [Wednesday], issued after police representation, to the detriment of a teacher at a school in that municipality for committing crimes of rape of vulnerable and sexual exploitation of adolescents whose victims were his students, all male.

“It was found, during a police investigation, that the individual, who taught classes for children and adolescents in Nova Iguaçu, enticed them to his residence and in that place forced them to have sexual intercourse with each other, and also with the investigated person, with anal sex. and oral.”

The statement added: “As if that were not enough, he was also a football teacher for one of the victims and asked them to pick up the ‘ball’ for the game at his residence. At that moment, he also started making sexual advances against the teenagers.

“One of the teenagers, now 15 years old, told that the abuse had been happening since he was 10 years old and decided to report the crimes because he couldn’t stand the situation anymore.

“As a result, the Police Station forwarded the individual’s arrest request to the forum and, as soon as the request was accepted, began monitoring to locate the author, who was hiding in the house of one of his sisters, in Uruaçu. He was hiding inside the bathroom of the residence, where he was arrested. The location of the suspect for arrest was supported by the Uruaçu intelligence unit.”

Mendes has been charged with multiple counts of rape and with the sexual exportation of minors.