A woman claims a Bermuda Police Constable stalked her, forced her into non-consensual sex, and used abusive language over the course of about a month this summer.

P.c. Robert Butterfield, 36, and his accuser were once romantically involved and share a child.

But yesterday they never made eye contact in a courtroom not much bigger than a company boardroom.

"He'd curse me, tell me I'm nothing but a f****** bitch and a whore," the mother of two testified. "He'd say all of this in front of my children.

"Not only was I going through it, but my children were going through it too."

The magistrate has instructed The Royal Gazette not to name the complainant.

The Crown alleges P.c. Butterfield stalked his former lover between July 1 and July 25 of this year.

Under direct questioning and a half-completed cross examination, the woman said the defendant would follow her to Clearwater Beach, to the grocery store, and even enter her St. David's home uninvited.

She said that P.c. Butterfield allegedly came into her home late at night while she was asleep in bed with her two children.

She claims she woke to find Mr. Butterfield standing over her in the dark.

"He dragged me up and pulled me into the living room and put me on top of him.

"He had sex with me then he left."

Later the witness said: "I didn't tell anybody because I don't discuss these things with other people."

It' has been suggested in court that this alleged event happened before July 1, the first date applicable to the stalking charge.

The woman's testimony chronicled a testy relationship between parents who couldn't get along despite an order from an American court that instructed them to share custody of their toddler.

Mr. Butterfield was to have the baby five days out of every month, but the woman complained he wanted his little girl "pretty much everyday while I was here [in Bermuda]".

The child and her mother spent a lot of time overseas because mom was is in school.

Under cross examination defence attorney Edward King introduced the possibility that the relationship was not as turbulent as the accuser portrayed.

For example Mr. King got the accuser to admit the two had spent at least one night together in a New Jersey hotel room between June 11 and 12 of this year. After first denying they had sex, the accuser changed her story to admit that there was intercourse one time.

She qualified her statement by saying: "He's always trying to manipulate me to have sex with him."

She also conceded to sex one other time over the summer of 2006 at her St. David's home.

"It should have never happened period," she said, disagreeing with Mr. King that the act was consensual.

Mr. King made further efforts to raise the likelihood that the complainant and defendant found themselves in the same places so often, like the grocery store, because they lived near each other in St. David's.

The woman said in her testimony that Mr. Butterfield was, at the time, living at the St. David's Police Barracks which is "within walking distance" to her home and the home of her mother.

In a separate case, to be tried probably next year, the Crown alleges the accuser's mother was also victimised by the defendant when she was on the receiving end of "offensive behaviour".

During the timeframe of these allegations, P.c. Butterfield was already suspended from his job as a Police officer for a matter not directly related to this stalking case.

He is still receiving two-thirds of his regular salary.

In total he's been away from the force just short of a full year.

The woman is expected back on the stand today to complete the cross examination which at times has been very confrontational between the witness and the defence attorney.