A woman broke down in tears yesterday as she told a court how her ex-boyfriend raped her twice and that he wanted her to have his child.

The 33-year-old Hamilton Parish man -- who cannot be named for legal reasons -- is charged with the serious sexual assault of the 27-year-old woman in her apartment on March 16.

The Supreme Court trial began yesterday morning in front of Chief Justice Austin Ward after the eight-woman, four-man jury was picked.

The man is also charged with depriving the woman of her liberty, invading her privacy in a manner which alarmed her and the alternative charges of sexual assault and assault occasioning bodily harm.

The woman told the court she arrived home in a taxi at about 2 a.m. and waited with the driver for her cousin to return her car.

But her ex-boyfriend arrived first and repeatedly asked to speak to her. She refused his requests until he threatened to damage the taxi. She consented because she did not want to get the driver involved.

The pair stood in front of the cab where he "started to tell me he loved me and missed me and we could work it out and that he was sorry for hitting me last time,'' she said.

About 15 minutes later the man asked her if they could go inside as it was cold and then tried to force her when she told him no, she said.

Once inside he tried to kiss her and "stick his tongue in my mouth'' while she struggled and told him to stop, she continued. When he continued the attack, she said, she tried to scream but he covered her mouth with his hand.

He then carried her into the bedroom, threw her onto the bed and started to slap her, she said.

"Then I heard the taxi leave,'' she said. "I could have died.'' She said she knew she was on her own and no one was going to help her so she tried to calm him down and initially succeeded.

She talked to him briefly to keep him calm, then said she was going to bed and told him to go home.

She went to her bedroom but heard him rummaging around the living room.

Suddenly he charged into the bedroom with her telephone bill and asked who she was calling in Philadelphia before grabbing her and throwing her on the bed.

He forced her to perform oral sex on him, then raped her, she testified.

"Throughout the whole ordeal I told him no and begged him to stop,'' said the woman.

The man would not leave and suggested they go to sleep.

She lay down on the bed and he lay behind her. He then raped her again, she said.

"I did not consent and I did not say yes. I did not deny him because I was afraid he would beat me again,'' she said.

She said he told her he wanted her to have his baby.

The man later fell asleep and she dressed and called her aunt. Her uncle and father arrived about an hour later and she showed them her bruises.

She did not tell them she had been sexually assaulted because she was worried her father might kill the man and get in trouble.

She went to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital where she was treated for her bruises but still did not tell anyone about the sexual assault.

She only told Police officers about it two days later after initially reporting it as a domestic incident as she did not want the people she worked with to know.

She didn't tell anyone at first, she said, out of embarrassment.

Under cross-examination from defence lawyer Myron Simmons, the woman said her ex-boyfriend was "obsessive and demanding and if he did not get his own way he was argumentative''.

She did not run away when she had the chance because the road to her home was very dark and there were several dogs in her neighbourhood of which she was terrified.

The trial continues today. Crown counsel Charlene Scott is prosecuting.