A Police officer accused of sexually assaulting three young boys was grilled by the prosecution yesterday in Supreme Court but denied using his position of trust to abuse them.

Yesterday?s session began with Senior Crown counsel Juan Wolffe quizzing the man about attacks on an 11-year-old boy in St. George?s between May 1, 1996 and September 1, 1998.

He said: ?I put it to you that before you sexually assaulted him you told him to keep his mouth shut.?

The defendant, who cannot be named for legal reasons, denied it.

Mr. Wolffe said the man had ordered the boy to take his clothes off and lie on his stomach in his mother?s room before straddling him and rubbing his penis on the boy?s bottom.

The prosecutor continued: ?As a Police officer you put yourself in a position of trust but you sexually assaulted that boy and everyone of those boys who came to this court to give evidence.?

Again the defendant, who was visibly shaking throughout yesterday?s court session, denied the charges.

The defendant bought a goldfish for the boy as a pay off, said Mr. Wolffe, as well as buying a pendant and chain.

Mr. Wolffe said the attacks continued and were a precursor to further attacks in Smith?s, including attempted buggery.

The officer was quizzed over why he had child?s Disney videos. However, his sister later appeared on the stand and said he had given them to her years before but she had left them there when she moved overseas.

The accused denied accusations he had taken the boy to a Smith?s address to watch movies.

He further denied taking the boy into the swimming pool.

?You tried to get in his pants,? said Mr. Wolffe but the defendant denied it.

To continued denials Mr. Wolffe said the defendant had taken the boy to a bedroom and asked to bugger him.

After being denied, he put baby oil on the boy?s behind before attempting to bugger him.

?When he started crying you stopped, you hopped off him, immediately he said he was going to tell his mother.?

Mr. Wolffe pressed on, saying the defendant had exploited every situation to abuse the three boys, taking advantage that one of the mothers had wanted a ?big brother? for her boy, while in the case of a second boy, who had been ten at the time, he had used a trip to Florida for his own purposes.

The sister took the stand and said she recalled a conversation with the mother of one of the other boys who told her son would not be allowed to stay with her because of the circumstances.

The mother then asked the defendant?s sister if she thought her son was lying about the situation. The sister said: ?I did not comment, I did not want to continue the conversation with her.?

The officer faces a slew of sexual assault related charges involving three boys, aged between ten and 11, which date back to 1996.

The trial continues today before Assistant Justice Carlisle Greaves.