A teen has gone on trial accused of raping and attempting to rape two children when he was 12 years old.
Appearing in the dock at the High Court in Aberdeen, Declan Morrison, 18, is accused of raping another 12-year-old boy at a play park in Aberdeen in December 2015.
He also faces a further charge of the attempted rape of an eight-year-old boy in Mastrick, Aberdeen, in the same year.
Morrison denies the charges against him.
Witness claims he was raped in play park
The High Court heard evidence from one man – now 18 – who claims that Morrison raped him in a play park six years ago.
Giving evidence via a pre-recorded interview, he told the court Morrison took him to the play area in Sheddocksley playing fields where he raped him twice.
He claimed Morrison asked him: “Do you want to do things that people think is gay but isn’t gay?”
The complainer said that Morrison then raped him once on the ground and again against a climbing frame when both boys were 12 years old.
He also told the court that Morrison then warned him “don’t tell anyone”.
The 18-year-old added that Morrison would “bully” him and that following the alleged rape he felt like “an idiot” because “I let him do it”.
Teen says accused asked him if he wanted to know ‘how to do sex?’
Another witness claimed he was sexually assaulted by Morrison in 2015 when he was eight years old.
He alleges that an attempted rape took place on a mattress within a den in Mastrick.
The teenager told the court that Morrison, then 12, asked his friends to “go and collect sticks” for the den, before asking him: “Do you want to know how to do sex?”
He claims Morrison then attempted to rape him.
Defence advocate Gail Gianni asked the boy whether Morrison could have looked “like another boy” who lived nearby.
The teenager answered that he didn’t.
Boy’s mother became aware of alleged incident when he informed school
The boy’s mother then gave evidence and claimed that her son had become “more sensitive” around the end of 2015 and was prone to crying.
She said: “It was going on for quite a while until the day that he told me around spring 2016.
“He was very nervous and he just started to explain that he needed to tell me something.
“He started crying as he was telling me and I was trying to calm him down.”
The first boy’s mother told the court that she became aware an alleged incident had occurred at the playing fields when he “told the school that something had happened to him”.
The trial continues.
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