The mother of a six-year-old girl has denied they concocted a story about the child being indecently assaulted.
Luke McGuinniety, defending, told the District Court yesterday the woman's family had been evicted from the Lok Fu flat they shared with the defendant, and that claims of the sex assault and beatings were fabricated in a vendetta against the man.
But the woman, 31, said she and her family had decided to move out of the flat partly because the defendant often slapped the child.
The girl testified on Monday via a video link that on April 26 she was indecently assaulted by the 37-year-old man, who took care of her and her younger sister after school while her parents worked.
The court heard that doctors had questioned whether the younger sister, aged three, had been sexually abused, because she had had a persistent vaginal complaint, initially diagnosed as being the result of poor hygiene.
At about the same time, the mother noticed the elder girl had similar symptoms. The mother told the court doctors examined the older girl and said she had been sexually abused.