A historical sex assault investigation has led to the arrest of a 55-year-old Brantford man.

Brantford Police say a young man contacted them in the fall of 2018.

During their investigation they were able to identify additional victims who all said they were teens at the time of the alleged incidents.

All of them identified Paul Edward Fitzgerald as their offender.

According to police, the victims claim Fitzgerald befriended them between 1980 and 2015 when they were aged 12 to 17-years-old.

He allegedly gave the teenagers drugs and alcohol before they engaging in sexual activity.

A lawyer for one of the alleged victims told CTV that there are six complainants, and her client was only 10-years-old when he began being abused.

Bhavan Sodhi says it happened in Brantford’s Echo Place neighbourhood.

The most recent allegation is from 2015.

At that time Fitzgerald was working around children at Mohawk Lake.

City officials said in a statement that “Mr. Fitzgerald operated the train for a brief period of time in the Summer of 2015. As soon as it came to the city’s attention that there were allegations related to Mr. Fitzgerald, our concerns were immediately communicated to the contractor and Mr. Fitzgerald was subsequently dismissed by the contractor.”

Fitzgerald is facing 15 charges including indecent assault on a male, procuring, sexual assault, assault, threatening and uttering threats.

His next court appearance it set for April 25.