A man accused along with three others of taking part in the rape of a teenager told a jury both the victim and her friend had lied on the stand.

Defendant A, who is also accused of inducing the 14-year-old to drink alcohol, also strongly denied forcing anything on the two girls ­— adding that he had no idea the girl was underage.

“That ain’t true — those girls were lying,” the 20-year-old accused told defence lawyer Richard Horseman, when asked if he’d had sex with the girl on July 27 last year.

The four — who, along with the victim, cannot be identified — are charged together with serious sexual assault.

According to the victim, the defendants, aged from 19 to 21, raped her in the back yard of a Sandys home and forced her to perform oral sex after forcing her to drink liquor.

“I never forced those girls to drink,” Defendant A told the court, saying the bottle had been passed around — and that the victim “took bigger shots than me”.

He said he’d made the girls acquaintance via Facebook a couple of months before the incident, where numerous online pictures showed her in make-up and “dressed up sexy”.

The defendant also claimed the victim’s home page on social media site gave her year of birth as 1995.

Admitting he’d invited the girl and her friend up to his home on the night in question, Defendant A told the court: “I didn’t know that girl was so young, or I would never have mentioned it.”

The defendant also disputed evidence that he’d told the girl to lie about her age to his mother.

“That wasn’t true at all,” he told Mr Horseman.

A backyard gathering of five friends ended with the defendant dropping in on some neighbourhood friends nearby, with the girls leaving to catch the bus as the night wore on.

“I said, ‘I brought you here — I’ll take you back’,” he recounted. “They told me, ‘No, you’ve been drinking’.”

He said he’d hurried away after three gunshots rang out in the area.

“I was going to ask the girls to come back, but I saw the bus coming,” he said.

He returned to the gathering, then visited a neighbourhood barbecue with his friends and talked to some girls.

“When I woke up in the morning, the police were busting my house,” he recalled, adding that he was then arrested for sexual assault.

“I never sexually assaulted that girl, or raped her, whatever the courts are calling it — I never did nothing that night.”

Police had found a used condom in the yard, he agreed, but claimed that was left from a sexual encounter with a different girl from another night.

Prosecutor Susan Mulligan suggested the girl’s Facebook page listed her actual date of birth, and questioned the defendant as to why he’d never noticed any pictures of her in her middle school uniform.

“If I had seen some girl in uniform, I would not have messaged her back, and I wouldn’t have taken her to my house,” he told the court.

He said they’d chatted on Facebook, where he’d complimented her on her looks and been told back that he was “cute” — but that he couldn’t remember the substance of their exchanges, some ten months after the event.

And while he admitted inviting the pair up to his house, the defendant denied haranguing the girls with repeated demands that they come to the party.

The trial continues today.