A mother who claims she was sexually assaulted denied yesterday that she agreed to sleep with her alleged assailant to get money for drugs.

The woman sobbed at Supreme Court 3 as she told how the 33-year-old man swung her onto a bed at his home in a central parish and had sex with her without her consent. The man denies a charge of sexual assault.

Asked by prosecutor Oonagh Vaucrosson how she felt during the alleged attack she said: ?I didn?t want this. I was struggling.?

The jury of four men and eight women heard that the alleged victim had been out drinking with a friend and was preparing to take her friend home when the accused asked for a lift home in her car.

She said she knew the man from ?seeing him in the street? and thought he was in a relationship with a female friend of hers.

She said two weeks previously he had wanted to have sex with her at a party and she arranged to meet him later but never went, because she was not interested. On the night of the alleged sexual assault, the pair went alone to the man?s home so he could pick something up. The woman said she followed the man into the property, after telling him she didn?t want ?any bull**** or ignorance?.

?He kept saying everything was alright; everything was cool,? she said.

When they got inside he didn?t turn on the lights, she claimed. ?He asked me to give him a little bit,? she said, which she understood to mean sex. ?I told him that?s not what I came here for.?

She claimed he swung her onto the bed and ?started forcing himself on me?.

Crying, she added: ?I?m pushing him off me. ?Why are you doing this?? He wasn?t hearing me.?

She said after the attack she was ?hurting? and ?crying?. ?I hadn?t had sex in a while and I didn?t want it.?

She reported the alleged attack to Police the next day.

Crown counsel Shade Subair asked her under cross-examination whether she had ever used drugs.

She admitted she used to use cannabis and had done crack cocaine. The court also heard she had a 1985 conviction for importing cannabis into Bermuda.

Miss Subair asked her how much she had drunk on the night of the alleged attack, November 16, 2003, and was told three Cockspur?s and tonics and three Elephant beers.

?I?m going to suggest to you that you were drunk that night,? said Miss Subair. ?No,? said the alleged victim.

?I?m going to suggest to you that you were looking for cocaine that night,? said Miss Subair.

?No,? came the reply.

Miss Subair asked if it was true that the woman had sought the man out that night to get cocaine.

?No,? said the woman.

Miss Subair said: ?He agreed to pay you $100 in exchange for sex.? ?No?, said the woman.

Neither the defendant nor the alleged victim in yesterday?s case can be named for legal reasons.

The trial continues today.