acquaintence was forced to have sexual intercourse and ended up with pubic lice and depression, a Supreme Court jury heard yesterday.

The school girl, who was just 14 years old at the time of her alleged ordeal, testified on the opening day of the trial.

Her alleged attacker, who was 21-years-old at the time of the alleged incident, has denied sexually assaulting the teenager on November 5, 1995. He is now 23 and she is 16.

For legal reasons neither the accused nor the complainant can be named.

The young woman said that she left home on Saturday, November 4, 1995 and went for a drive with the accused and her best friend.

During the early hours of the following morning, she said the man stopped the car in St. George's and they left the car, leaving her girlfriend asleep on the back seat.

She said they talked while sitting on an embankment near Rocky Hill Park but soon after their arrival things started to go wrong for her.

"After a while he got on top of me and I tried to tell him no,'' she recalled, choking back her tears. "He was big. I ended up blacking out for a while.'' When she came to she realised they were having sexual intercourse and tried to get the accused to stop.

The woman said she next saw the man in December and she said that the man asked her why she hadn't called him.

"He asked me when he could have some more and he said that I made him feel like he did something wrong to me. My friends came over and pulled me away from him and told him to leave me alone.'' Apart from the physical and mental anguish she suffered, the woman said that she also contracted pubic lice.

She said that about three days after the alleged attack, she noticed that there were little creatures in her underpants.

"I did not know what they were,'' she continued. "I went to my sister and I showed them to her and she got some medication from someone.

"She had to shave my pubic hair off and applied the medication and a few days later they were gone.'' Under cross examination from defence lawyer Elizabeth Christopher the complainant admitted that she did not know for sure that the creatures were lice.

"At the time I did not know what they were, that is why I said they were creatures,'' the teen said.

"Later I studied it in Health studies and so I learned what they were.'' The complainant said that she tried to commit suicide because of the constant harassment from her alleged attacker.

"I tried to commit suicide because I could not take (the accused's) harassment anymore. I just wanted it to go away.'' The trial continues today before Chief Justice Austin Ward. Charlene Scott appears for the Crown.