A woman told the Supreme Court how she was repeatedly sexually exploited as a child about 30 years ago by a man who lived in her family home.

The witness said that while the offences took place in the 1990s, she only went to police in 2018 after her sister made complaints against the same defendant.

“The police asked me to come give a statement for my sister,” she said. “The first statement brought up a lot of memories.

“I figured it was the opportunity I had to speak on what happened to me and seek justice.”

The defendant, 59, has denied nine charges related to sexual offences against two young sisters including unlawful carnal knowledge, attempted unlawful carnal knowledge and sexual exploitation.

Neither the defendant nor the complainants in the case can be identified for legal reasons.

As the trial continued in the Supreme Court yesterday, the younger sister told the court how the defendant touched her sexually on a number of occasions while she was a child.

She told the court that she could not remember exactly when she met the defendant, but that she recalled him living in her house for several years when she was young.

She recalled several incidents, with the first taking place as she was getting ready to go to school when she was 7 or 8 years old.

She said another incident took place in a car, when she was eight or nine years old, near the former Club Med resort in St George’s, and another took place in a cave near the Railway Trail when she was about the same age.

The witness said she could not recall how the sexual contact was initiated in any of the incidents, but that the defendant would sometimes begin by touching her and sometimes by offering her candy.

“I really liked candy,” she said. “It was an easy way for him to get what he wanted from me.”

The witness also told the court of an occasion when the defendant attempted to have sex with her in his room when she was 10 or 11 years old.

She said she could not recall how she got to his room, but that “more than likely” he had woken her and brought her there.

“I remember being on the ground right next to the door and basically he was on top of me,” she said.

She said she was scared by the defendant’s actions, but did not initially tell anyone what had happened.

She said she made her first police statement on October 9, 2018 after she was contacted by both the police and her sister about complaints made about the defendant by her sister.

She went back to police on October 25 to make a statement about the abuse she had suffered.

Under cross-examination by Charles Richardson, counsel for the defendant, the witness accepted that she had not been able to provide a significant amount of detail on the incidents.

She also accepted that she had spoken with her sister before she gave her first statement to police.

The court previously heard evidence from the elder sister, who said she met the defendant in 1992.

She told the court that the defendant moved into the family home, and that she had accepted him as a trusted family friend.

She told the court that their relationship changed when he sexually touched her and attempted to have sex with her after a trip to the cinema.

The witness said that he went on to have unlawful carnal knowledge of her on “numerous occasions” afterwards, recalling once incident that took place on a mattress in a private club.

She also accepted that she had made false sexual assault allegations when she was 15 years old after she was caught by her older sister at a boy’s house.

She also accepted that when confronted about her false allegations, she made false allegations against someone else.

The woman, however, said she had apologised to those she had falsely accused and maintained that her allegations against the defendant were true.

The trial continues.

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