The accused testified as the lone witness in his defence and tendered one exhibit. The accused is a relation to the step mother of the prosecutrix. The accused is 20 years old and the prosecutrix is 15. The prosecution‟s case is centered on the evidence of the prosecutrix who testified as PW1. In her testimony before this court the prosecutrix alleged that on the 22/04/2011 the accused invited her to see his house. She obliged. Whilst at his residence, the accused requested to have sexual intercourse with her but she declined. The accused however insisted and despite her resistance the accused forcefully had carnal knowledge of her. She said she tried to push the accused away from her but she was unable to do so. The accused only got up from her when his brother (Pap) came into the room. She saw blood when the accused got up from her. When she went home she felt some pains on her stomach. She did not tell her mother of the sexual encounter and the pains but told one of her friends who advised her to take some „blue washing powder‟ which she did. The pains persisted and the prosecutrix informed her mother of the sexual encounter but did not reveal that it was the accused that had ravished her. Her mother took her to the Fajikunda Health Centre where she was examined and later arrested by police officers from the Bundung Police Station. Upon a further medical examination of the prosecutrix at the Royal Victorial Teaching Hospital, a medico-legal report was issued. This report is in evidence as exhibit “B”. At the police station, the prosecutrix volunteered a statement which was tendered in evidence by the Defense as exhibit “DE1”. The police later 2