A Tauranga man is on trial defending allegations that he kissed and fondled two young girls and tried to persuade them to be photographed naked with the aim of selling the images online.
Andrew Timothy Wilson, 39, appeared in the Tauranga District Court yesterday and denied three counts of indecent assault against a female aged under 12 - two of which are representative charges - plus two counts of sexual grooming.
The offences are alleged to have occurred in Tauranga last year after Wilson befriended the girls' mother and began joining her and her daughters on social outings.
During her opening address, Crown prosecutor Julie O'Brien told the jury they would hear directly from both girls after watching their video-taped evidential interviews conducted late last year.
Mrs O'Brien said Wilson regularly touched and kissed the girls to get them used to intimate contact so they would be more receptive to his naked modelling proposition.
