Girl allegedly raped in her bed

An alleged victim has described how she was told to keep quiet about allegedly being raped by an Ashburton man.

The man, who cannot be named to protect the identity of his alleged victims, is on trial in the Timaru District Court on six representative charges of sexual violation by rape of two girls.

On Tuesday morning a DVD interview with the first alleged victim was played to the court, in which she alleged the defendant had sex with her, then paid her $15 and told her not to tell anybody about it.

On Tuesday afternoon the court was played an interview with the second alleged victim from May 11, 2016. During the interview the girl repeatedly broke down in tears as she recounted allegedly being raped by the defendant.

‘‘He was doing sex, he was doing it in our bed ... he said he would stop it but he won’t stop it and I don’t want to say the rest,’’ she said in her interview.

‘‘He goes away and he makes me go in the shower, then we go to school. ‘‘He said he was sorry, he said he didn’t want to get told off, he said not to tell anyone.’’

The defendant never did things to her at night, only when her mother was at work in the morning, she told the interviewer. She said the first alleged victim had talked to her about allegedly being raped by the defendant.

‘‘Sometimes she got $15 for it ... for doing sex, that was the last time.’’ In cross examination on Wednesday morning, defence counsel Craig Ruane asked the second alleged victim about her police interview.

Ruane asked her if she had offered the same evidence as the first alleged victim, to which she replied yes. She was then asked by Ruane if she knew she had to back up the first girl’s story, or else she would be letting the first girl down.

The girl replied ‘‘sort of’’. ‘‘How did you know what [the first alleged victim] had said?’’ Ruane asked. ‘‘Because it was the same thing that happened to me,’’ she replied.

‘‘You didn’t want to have to back up [the first alleged victim’s] story with something you knew didn’t happen ... you didn’t want to have to tell lies?’’ Ruane asked the girl. ‘‘It did happen ... it was the truth that was said,’’ she replied. In her evidence, child sexual abuse expert Dr Wendy Miller said a medical examination one of the alleged victims was carried out on May 31, 2017.

Genital warts were found on the girl’s genital area, while the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) was also found. Sexual transmission was the ‘‘most likely explanation’’ for both diagnoses in a child of the age of the alleged victim, Dr Miller told the court.

In cross examination, Ruane asked Miller if the infection could be transmitted through poor hygiene or dirty clothing, and its presence was not just an indicator of sexual abuse. Dr Miller replied it could be caused by sexual abuse, and many other things.