A BOY of 12 dressed a little girl in her mother's red thong before raping her, a jury at Bradford Crown Court heard.

Liam Bacon is accused of forcing the child aged five to have sex with him when he was babysitting a decade ago.

He is said to have given her sweets afterwards and told her not to tell anyone.

Bacon, 22, of Keighley Road, Denholme, denies four sample charges of raping a girl under 13, between 2004 and 2006.

Prosecutor Jeremy Hill-Baker told the jury the alleged offences happened in Bradford.

He said the girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, confided in a school friend in 2013 after suffering nightmares and loss of sleep.

She told her doctor she had been forced to have sex with the boy but she did not want anyone else to know at that stage.

Soon afterwards, staff at the college she attended were alerted and the police were called.

Today the jury watched a DVD of the teenager telling a specially trained police officer what she alleges happened to her.

Mr Hill-Baker said Bacon accuses her of lying and says she is an attention seeker.

The girl sobbed into a tissue as she told how Bacon asked her where her mother's underwear was and made her put on a red thong.

She could not recall her exact age but thought she was in the reception class at primary school.

"I just remember him taking my clothes off and forcing the thong on me. It was really baggy and miles too big," she said.

She claimed Bacon carried her into her bedroom and shut the door before raping her on her bed.

The teenager said he came to the house to babysit while her parents were out shopping.

She would cry after he forced himself on her, she said. She believed it had happened up to six times.

"I was in pain. I was crying. I was scared. I was dreading the next time it would happen," she told the police.

She said she tried to hide upstairs but Bacon would find her and grab her.

She was petrified to start with but got used to it, she alleged.

"I knew that when he came round that was what he was going to do and I could not do anything about it," she said.

Judge Colin Burn told the jury the case would probably conclude this week.

The trial continues.