An Aberdeen man has gone on trial accused of exposing himself to two schoolgirls in the city.
Allahbaksh Nadaf is also accused of sexually assaulting another child in a separate incident.
The 30-year-old denies all three charges, which are alleged to have taken place over a 14-month period between November 2014 and January this year.
Yesterday Nadaf appeared at Aberdeen Sheriff Court for the first day of the trial.
Giving evidence from behind a screen jurors heard evidence from a 13-year-old girl, who was 11 at the time Nadaf is accused of sexually assaulting her.
The child told fiscal despite David Bernard that she was walking to school on the morning of November 25, 2014, when she was approached by an “Indian” man while walking on the city’s Park Place.
She said he came towards her and made a comment she could not make out.
The court heard the girl then turned down a lane to get away from the man but he continued to follow her.
She said he eventually made a sexual comment towards her before touching her inappropriately.
The child told the jury she then ran away and met her friend’s mother, who alerted the school and the police.
Another girl, who Nadaf is alleged to have exposed himself to when she was just eight, was the second witness to be called.
Giving evidence via video link, the 10-year-old told the jury she was walking through Flourmill Lane, on her way to school, when she was approached by an “Indian or Asian” man, on the morning of January 26, 2015.
She claimed he had asked her if she had “ever seen this before” and exposed himself to her.
The girl told the jury she was “kind of getting worried at that point” and began to walk away.
She said he then asked her for her age, name, and where she lived before exposing himself again.
Under cross-examination from defence agent George Mathers, both girls admitted they were unable to pick out Nadaf, whose address was given in court papers as care of Jambwa, 2A Fraser St, Aberdeen, from a police identity parade.
The trial, before Sheriff Graham Buchanan, continues.