A teacher has been arrested on suspicion of raping male students as young as ten and forcing them to have sex with each other as he watched in a shocking case that has rocked . 

Mateus Jose Mendes, 50, is alleged to have raped at least four students in Nova Iguacu de Goias, in the central Brazilian state of Goias. 

Mendes was arrested on Wednesday after one of his alleged victims, now aged 15, came forward to say that he had been abused since the age of 10.

Another alleged victim, aged 18, also claimed he had been abused by the teacher from the age of 10.

Police believe Mendes - who was also a football coach - enticed his students to go to his home before carrying out the heinous crimes. 

Teacher Mateus Jose Mendes has been arrested on suspicion of raping male students as young as ten and forcing them to have sex with each other as he watched in a shocking case that has rocked Brazil

Mendes was arrested (pictured) on Wednesday after one of his alleged victims, now aged 15, came forward to say that he had been abused since the age of 10

Mendes, who was hiding in his bathroom of his sister's home when police arrested him, had been working in the city as a teacher for at least 15 years. 

While there are currently four known alleged victims, more may come forward.

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.

A statement from the Civil Police of Nova Iguacu de Goias on Thursday said: '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.

Mendes (pictured) allegedly forced young boys to have sex with him and with each other while he masturbated

Police officers search through the personal belongings of Mendes - who was also a football coach

'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 hot shemale mag with the sexual exportation of minors.