A WOMAN claims she was sexually abused as a child in Bulwell by a former policeman who "mauled and touched" her, a jury has heard.
Last July, she tearfully described to a female officer her alleged ordeal in the 1970s, claiming she was indecently assaulted by Alan Martin, then a policeman.
None of the charges relate to Martin's work as an officer, but the woman, now in her forties, remembered his job and seeing his old-fashioned uniform.
Martin, 71, of Teesbrook Drive, Wollaton, contests her claims before a jury at Nottingham Crown Court.
He has pleaded not guilty to eight charges of indecently assaulting the woman, who cannot be identified, when she was a young girl.
The woman's account of what happened to her was recorded on DVD and played to the jury yesterday on the first day of Martin's trial.
She tearfully claimed that the first time he sexually touched her, he repeatedly told her to "shush".
She further alleged assaults happened when she was aged six, seven and eight years old.
"Not at any time did I cry out or tell anyone," she alleged on the DVD recording.
"I was just too scared of him. He just frightened me and scared me."
She used the word "mauling" after one particular incident when she described how she was allegedly assaulted by Martin.
A few years later, she told another adult that the defendant used to touch her.
This resulted in the child being visited by a policewoman but she recalled how she felt "embarrassed and uncomfortable" and could not tell her.
She kept what apparently happened to her for 35 years, saying that at the time she knew it was wrong and she was really scared.
"It has always been at the forefront and, not realising it, has had an impact; being a child, an adult being in a relationship," she said.
The trial continues.
