A Lewis man exposed himself and went bathing naked with two young girls, it has been alleged.
Norman Macdonald faces trial by jury at Stornoway Sheriff Court.
The 76-
Macdonald is accused of inducing a girl under the age of 11 years to masturbate him on various occasions in the 1970s.
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He faces five other allegations that he exposed himself to girls then aged between six and 16 years at various times stretching back to over four decades ago.
Macdonald would have been between 30 and 40 years old at the time.
One witness -
She said one incident occurred in the water.
The witness said she never told anyone about what happened because “he put me in a situation I didn’t feel comfortable speaking to my parents about it.”
He deliberately caused a division of trust and “put an awkwardness in me. These days they call it grooming,” she added.
Years later, she avoided Macdonald but acted normally and would be “courteous” with him when others were around, she said.
Defence lawyer Katy Begg suggested that she was not telling the truth and “effectively made this up.”
Another witness -
Sometimes it happened in a barn. Other times, when the two girls were watching TV, he walked round the couch with his private parts visible, she told procurator fiscal David Teale.
Solicitor Katy Begg asked if such incidents had “really happened,” why the first witness “did not tell us about it.”
Ms Begg queried if the people making the allegations were colluding, pointing out there are links between them.
She suggested: “Everyone has got together -
The trial before Sheriff John Halley continues.