The summary of the evidence of the prosecution witnesses is to the effect thus: PW1- Detective corporal 703 Yorro Saidy, testified that he is a police officer attached to the Major Crime Unit at the Police Headquarters in Banjul. That on the 24th day of March, 2010, the accused person was referred to their unit for further investigation into an alleged defilement case and he was directed by his station officer to obtain a cautionary and a voluntary statement from the accused. That he obtained the voluntary statement of the accused, but the accused opted to write his own cautionary statement. Under cross-examination, nothing of relevance was put to the witness and his testimony remained unchallenged. PW2- Mariama Gibba, the complainant stated that she lives at Ndemban Village from where she knew the accused person. That at that time the accused was a teacher at the Lower Basic School and she was attending the Ndemban Upper Basic School and was in grade 9. She testified further that one day she was asked by the accused to visit him at his house. That she went there but did not meet him. on another day whilst she was going to the shop to buy candle, she met up with the accused who asked her why she did not come to visit him. that she replied she had gone but did not meet him. It is her testimony that the accused then asked her to come that very day. That she later met the accused standing at the compound gate of Gibba Kunda when she came out from watching a film and they went together to his house. That at the accused person’s house, they chatted for a while and the accused then asked her if she loved him to which she replied yes. That the accused asked her to have sex with him but she refused because she was waiting for her grade nine results. It is her further testimony that the accused then forcefully pushed her unto his bed, undressed her and had sex with her thereafter that she stopped seeing her periods and later discovered that she was pregnant. That she kept the pregnancy until she delivered the child. The complainant also testified that she gave a statement to the police when the incident happened. The said statement was admitted in evidence after hearing arguments on the objection raised by the defence to its admissibility. Further in her testimony, the complainant stated that she was 18years old and tendered her birth certificate in evidence. Under cross-examination, the complainant admitted that the accused was not the first person she had sex with. That the first was one Yankuba Njie in 2008 when she was 15 years old. She admitted that she had visited the accused twice at night but that she has gone to visit him because she did not know why he had called her. She admitted falling in love with the accused the second time she went to visit him and had agreed to go to bed with him when he asked. The complainant also stated when it was put to her that a girl who had sex once or twice cannot be under 18years, that it could be possible. She however insisted that she was born in 1992.