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Teen Accuser Testifies In Trial Of Former Orlando Magic TV Analyst

Posted: 5:22 pm EDT September 7, 2005Updated: 5:40 pm EDT September 7, 2005

A teenager, who claims Orlando Magic TV analyst Jack Givens molested her, spent hours on the witness stand Wednesday. She told the jury about two sexual encounters with Givens after a private basketball lesson at her home.

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If ever there was a case of 'he said, she said,' this is it. Givens flat-out denies the sexual allegations. But Wednesday, the teenage victim told jurors it did happen and her account was in graphic detail.

"He put his hand inside my pants, in my swimming suit," she told the courtroom.

Now 15 years old, the young victim told jurors Givens molested her twice in her backyard swimming pool after a private basketball lesson last summer.

"He goes, 'Is this okay?' and I just, I didn't know what to say. I just sort of shrugged my shoulders," she said.

"Did you say it's okay to do that?" the prosecuting attorney asked her.

"I didn't say one way or the other, I just went like that," she said, shrugging.

Eventually, they got out of the pool and went in her bedroom where, she said, the sexual contact continued and escalated.

"When he grabbed my hand and put it there, it was over his clothes, then he moved my hand, pulled it out and pushed my head from my neck, pushed it down and it touched right here," she explained.

Prosecutors also played a taped phone conversation orchestrated by detectives with Givens responding to the victim first asking about the incident.

"I just can't get into that right now," Givens said on the recording.

"How come? It's not fair to me," the victim said.

"Cause my wife's right here," Givens replied.

Eventually he tried to calm her down. "I just want you to know that, whatever I did, whatever I did, I'm sorry, and you did nothing wrong," Givens said.

Givens never specifically referenced a sexual encounter or an admission of guilt on the recording. "I do not admit to anything. I'm not saying anything. All I wanna do is help your game," Givens said.

On cross-examination Wednesday, Givens' attorney tried to point out previous lies the victim told her friends about sex and he questioned her behavior after the alleged incident.

"You didn't say no?" defense attorney Michael Snure asked the victim.

"No, I didn't," she replied.

"Didn't scream?" Snure asked.

"Nope."

"Didn't call for your grandmother?"

"Nope."

"Didn't get out of the pool?"

"Nope."

The victim was the only witness who testified Wednesday. Prosecutors will continue with the rest of their case Thursday. The trial is expected to last all week.

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