The lawyer representing a Police officer accused of sexually assaulting three young boys on Friday questioned the authority of Police statements taken after one of the alleged offences.

The officer, who cannot be named for legal reasons, faces an array of sexual assault charges in Supreme Court involving the three boys who were ten and 11 at the time of the alleged incidents.

On Friday, John Perry QC asked P.c. Renee Rock of the Juvenile Domestic Crime Unit about searches conducted at the defendant's home.

He asked P.c. Rock if the mothers of two of the boys, one who was assaulted in 1996 and one who was assaulted between 1997 and 1998, ever came to the Police Station together to have their statements taken.

P.c. Rock said that was not correct but she admitted to not recording one of the mother's complaints in an initial complaints form.

"I fully recorded the statements in March when she came to make a formal complaint," she said.

Mr. Perry, who is assisted by lawyer Leo Mills, asked if she was sure both reports complied with the initial complaints against the officer.

He also asked if she took notes when she went to search the officer's bedroom. She admitted she did not during the search but later compiled a report based on her findings.

The trial, which has stopped and started throughout its week-long session due to legal arguments, was adjourned until Monday when further medical evidence regarding the alleged incidents will be presented to the seven-man five-woman jury.

On Thursday, an 18-year-old boy who was ten years old when the alleged incidents occurred took the stand to give evidence. His mother also took the stand this week telling the seven man five woman jury that the officer used to baby sit the boy after school.

The boy recounted one episode where the officer allegedly told him to go into his mother's room and remove his clothes and lie down on the bed stomach down. The officer asked him where he could find lotion.

The boy then gave details of the officer sodomising him and calling him 'honey' and 'son'. The boy also recounted gifts the officer had allegedly given him in return for his silence: a Nintendo 64, a Sony Playstation, and a gold chain with a gold cross with the boy's name and the date, 1996, inscribed on it.

The mother told how she left her son in the officer's care for nearly a week after Boxing Day, 2001, while she had to work. They did not speak for that time.The next time she saw her son was on New Year's Day, 2002.

On January 2, her son went to school as normal, but when he came home, showed his mother marks on his behind which she said resembled a handprint and a tear around the anal area.

She promptly took him to the hospital to be examined. Photos of the marks on her son's behind were admitted into evidence and shown to the court.

Mr. Perrry pointed out the mother had made no reference to a handprint until more than a month after she took her son to hospital, though she did make reference to marks on his behind.

The trial continues today before Assistant Justice Carlisle Greaves.