A SCHOOLGIRL told her teachers she had been raped by a middle-aged man who gave her a sexual nickname, a court heard.
David Bentley, of Bath Street, Huddersfield, is accused of twice raping the Bradford girl when she was 15.
The man, a father, appeared at the trial at Bradford Crown Court yesterday after pleading not guilty.
The court heard how teachers at the teenager’s school raised the alarm when the girl told them she had sex with Bentley.
In a statement from one of the teachers she said: “She didn’t cry but was very serious– I knew she was telling the truth.”
The girl, now 16, was said to have a mental age of five after being injured in a car crash when she was two.
One teacher said two of the girl’s friends went to tell teachers the girl had told them she had sex with Bentley.
The teacher said she confronted the girl, who initially denied it because she was afraid what her mum would think.
But after being reassured she wouldn’t get into trouble she said Bentley had made her have sex with him.
She also said the 50-year-old had given her a sexual nickname.
The teacher asked the teenager if she had ever said no to sex with Bentley and the girl said she had but when she did Bentley would ‘go off on one’.
Kathryn Ward, consultant paediatrician at Airedale General Hospital, examined the girl on April 30 last year.
She told the court the girl had an injury ‘consistent’ with what was alleged to have happened on April 10 and 11 last year.
Gillian Batts, prosecuting, said the girl had been having contraceptive injections since she was 14 which her mum had agreed to because she was thought to be ‘sexually active’.
She also said the girl had a boyfriend.
Prosecutor David Moulson, told the court Bentley had refused to answer questions put to him in a 24-minute interview with police after his arrest on May 20 last year.
Upon arrest Bentley told officers: “Get me to the police station and get me a solicitor please.”
Bentley will give evidence in the case which continues today.
