The trial of a man accused of having sex with a young girl continued yesterday, with the schoolgirl saying she was afraid of the defendant.

The accused, a 46-year-old Paget man, has denied four counts of sexually exploiting the girl, who is under the age of 13, and one count of sexually assaulting her.

All of the offences are said to have taken place between September 2012 and March 2013.

Neither the defendant nor his accuser can be named for legal reasons.

Taking the stand on Monday, the girl said the man had sex with her repeatedly over a period of months, both on her bed at night and on his bed during the daytime.

She told the Supreme Court that she did not tell anyone about the incidents because she was afraid of getting into trouble, but she eventually told her brother and later her mother.

Continuing her testimony yesterday, the girl said that her mother made repeated phone calls to the accused and his girlfriend after being told about the incidents.

“She kept on calling asking them what happened to her daughter,” she said.

The girl said she later told Police about the incidents. She admitted that she used the word “humping” to describe what happened when she spoke to officers, saying she could not explain what the word meant, only that she had heard it used by other young people.

Before the incidents, the girl said that the accused would take her out for food and take her swimming. But she told how she was now afraid of him, comparing him with a stranger. Asked if she knew the difference between a lie and the truth, the girl said that she did, and reiterated that what she had told the court was the truth.

Under cross examination, she admitted that she had lied in the past to avoid trouble and had sometimes said untrue things to please a loved one, but she said she had not lied about the accused. The girl admitted to the court that she had been in trouble at school for bullying behaviour and for talking back to teachers, but she denied a suggestion that she had made inappropriate remarks.

Questioned about one incident in which she said the accused had struck her on the head with a stick, she said that afterwards she put ice on her head and went to a neighbour’s house, where her brother was playing.

She said they did not ask about the bump on her head or the ice, but after she returned home she told her brother she had been struck by the accused.

The trial continues today.