A jury has heard a woman cried herself to sleep after her half-brother allegedly raped her when she was 14.
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The alleged victim, now 31, and her two younger sisters have accused the man of sexually assaulting and raping them when they were young.
The man, believed to have been a young adult at the time of the alleged offending, has pleaded not guilty to three counts of maintaining a sexual relationship with a person under 17.
He is now on trial in the Launceston Supreme Court.
Taking the stand on Tuesday, the 31-year-old woman told the jury her older brother used to climb into her bed, tell her to be quiet and indecently assault her.
The court heard when she was about 14 he was in her bed when he told her to take off her underwear, touched her on the breasts and vagina and asked her to touch his penis.
“He was just moving my hand up and down his penis,” she said.
“He told me I had to do it faster.”
She told the jury the man then began to touch himself before ejaculating on her.
After he left, she cried herself to sleep, the court heard.
She said the next time she remembered him coming into her bed was when he forced his penis into her mouth.
“I felt like I was choking … I tried to pull away … I told him I didn’t want to,” she said as she cried in the witness box.
The youngest sister told the court she was about four-years-old when her brother first touched her indecently.
She also described another incident which she said happened during a Christmas camping trip – she could not remember exactly how old she was, but said she was still in primary school.
The court heard the man went into her tent during the night and raped her – she said she started to cry and the man grabbed her hands and placed them over her mouth.
“He just kept telling me to be quiet,” she said.
The sisters did not tell each other about any of the alleged incidents, which the Crown says started in 2000.
It was not until 2011 that the accusations came to light.
The man has denied the allegations and his defence counsel James Oxley questioned the women’s motive.
Cross-examining the youngest alleged victim, Mr Oxley suggested his client was the “black sheep” of the family and the sisters had joined forces to “make up a story”.
The young woman said she hadn’t told anyone about her brother’s alleged actions because she didn’t want her family to “look down on her”.
She said her and her sisters had decided to go public to “get justice”.
The trial before Justice Robert Pearce will continue on Wednesday with the third alleged victim expected to give evidence.