A young man spurned by a teenage girl he fell for later set up a Facebook page to harass her, a court was told.
Cody Rae Allen, 19, pleaded guilty in Gisborne District Court yesterday to forgery and criminal harassment. He will be sentenced on August 20.
The court was told that last June, Allen befriended a 17-year-old student and they began texting, talking on the phone and on the internet.
Allen asked the girl to become his girlfriend but she declined.
Police prosecutor Sergeant Tess Brownlie said Allen then contacted the young woman's friends and family, and posted information on the internet defaming her.
He set up a Facebook profile under the name of her friend and posted things such as "I was so excited when I shot my first deer, that I wanted to have sex with it,'' in the hope the girl would turn to Allen for comfort.
He also used the fake profile to contact her father and brother to say the person was having sex with the student.
The court heard how he posted: "Love you babe, it's been ages since we had sex.''
When Allen was contacted by the police he admitted the harassment and forging the Facebook profile but believed it had been ``a bit of a joke``, the police prosecutor said.
