SINGAPORE, July 20 — Hours after she was allegedly raped and molested by her biological son, the 56-year-old woman’s family members were informed of the incident, one by one, before she filed a police report against her son, the court heard yesterday.

However, defence lawyers for the son, a 33-year-old safety coordinator, also tried to make a case that his alleged offences were an attempt by his mother and stepfather to kick him out of their home. The accused is the second of the victim’s three sons from her first marriage.

The man has pleaded not guilty to the three charges of rape, molest and aggravated molest of his mother, which were allegedly committed at about 2.30am on Oct 4, 2013, in the family’s one-bedroom flat.

The accused, victim and their family members who took the stand yesterday are not named due to a court gag order.

The first to take the stand after the trial resumed yesterday was the wife of the accused’s older brother, who said that the victim had arrived at her flat earlier than usual on Oct 4, 2013.

The victim helps the couple look after their seven-year-old daughter when they work on weekdays.

After she let the victim in, the latter cried profusely, "like a little girl”. When asked what had happened, the victim told her, "Boy want to f*** me”, the court heard. The family sometimes calls the accused "Boy”.

According to the accused’s sister-in-law, the victim told her that during the alleged encounter, the man had turned off the light, sat beside her on the bed and removed his towel.

The victim also said Boy had "tarik” (Malay for pull) her blouse, among other things.

The sister-in-law then called the accused’s stepfather, who later made his way to her flat.

The stepfather told the court yesterday that the victim, his wife, then told him that the accused had taken off her dress after the latter returned home.

The sister-in-law also gesticulated — by trying to lift her dress and pointing her middle finger to the bottom half of her body — which he gathered to mean that the accused had raped the victim.

Another witness, the accused’s younger brother, 32, also told the court that he had received a call from their mother on that Oct 4 morning.

She told him in Malay that "Boy has gone overboard” and kept crying.

Later on, the younger brother said the victim told him that the accused had come home drunk and "went on top” of her. When asked by the younger brother why she did not push him away, his mother said the accused was too heavy.

The court also heard testimony from the accused’s older brother, who said he was informed that something had happened to his mother after his youngest brother called him that morning.

During the defence’s cross-examination of the sister-in-law and the two brothers, it was put to them that the victim did not mention that the accused had specifically restrained, molested and raped her — and the trio agreed with the defence.

The defence is led by Senior Counsel Harry Elias and his team.

During the cross-examination of the stepfather yesterday, the 54-year-old cook said that the accused became a nuisance whenever he drank alcohol at home and started making noise.

Asked by Elias if accusing the safety coordinator of these offences was the "best solution” to get the man out of the house, the stepfather said that there was no need for him to do that.

The stepfather later added through an interpreter, "We did not lie, this was what happened. We are not using this as a reason to make him leave the house. This is a shameful act.” — TODAY