A woman has steadfastly maintained she was raped by her stepfather despite a defence lawyer suggesting her account of abuse was nonsensical.
The 47-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting her for four years is on trial before the Dunedin District Court facing three counts of rape, four of sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection and one of indecent assault.
The defendant has name suppression.
The jury yesterday heard the remainder of the complainant's police video interview in which she spoke about an occasion she was off school with a vomiting bug.
"I was having a shower and Mum was out getting me ice blocks because that's all I could eat," she said.
The woman - who claimed the abuse began on her 11th birthday - said the defendant walked into the bathroom and forced himself on her.
It only lasted a short time, she said, because her mother's car pulled up.
"I said `Mum's home, get out' and he just pulled up his shorts and really quickly opened the door and went and sat in the lounge like nothing had happened," the complainant told police.
Defence counsel Andrew Dawson said her account made no sense.
"It just didn't happen, did it?" Mr Dawson said.
"It did happen," the woman replied.
She alleged she was forced to perform sex acts on the man on multiple occasions.
Mr Dawson asked why she had not protested more vigorously if that was the case.
"You could have bitten him on the genitals.
"That would've been a good way to make sure it didn't happen again," he said.
"You have made it up completely."
"No, I'm telling the truth," the complainant said.
She told the court the allegations against her stepfather only arose when she got drunk at a party and made disclosures to a friend.
That friend persuaded her to go to counselling, despite the woman being reluctant.
She acknowledged she did not want to raise the matter with police at that time.
Mr Dawson suggested that was because the woman was afraid of the legal repercussions of making a false complaint.
"There are consequences for lying to the police.
"I suggest that's the reason you didn't want to go to the police," he said.
But the woman maintained she simply had wished to deal with the alleged ordeal in her own way.
She said she did not want to tell her mother because she feared it would break her heart.
She also gave some background regarding the man's relationship with her mother and said when he initially moved in with the family things went smoothly.
However, before long there were allegedly heated arguments among them.
"He didn't seem to care about anything or anyone," the complainant said.
"I was scared he was going to hurt my mum."
The woman said she would write down how she felt but would take the notes to school and burn them before they could be read.
Cross-examination will continue tomorrow.
The trial is scheduled to conclude next week.