The girl who was allegedly raped by Leon Doris testified yesterday at his trial, which heard that she met him while he was a conductor on a bus.
Doris is alleged to have raped the girl, who was under the age of 16 at the time, in November 2009.
When the trial resumed before Justice Franklyn Holder in the High Court yesterday, the girl gave evidence for the entire session and was cross-examined by defence counsel Peter Hugh.
The girl told the court that she knew Doris for about six months prior to the rape as she had travelled in a bus he was conducting. She said that on the day of the incident, she was on her way to lessons, when Doris asked her to accompany him to his sister’s home to collect a receipt, to which she agreed.
She said Doris then took her to a house in Kitty, where he dragged her into a bedroom on the bottom flat and allegedly committed the rape. Under cross-examination, the victim told the court that she did not scream or fight back during the ordeal since she was scared of Doris.
She also said, for the first time, that the accused had grabbed her wrist when he dragged her into the bedroom.
When asked why she was now stating that as evidence, she replied that she did not think it necessary to mention it before.
The trial will continue on Monday with the evidence of the other prosecution witnesses.
