GRAND RAPIDS, MI – A 17-year-old boy, allegedly the victim of a sexual assault by a Catholic school tutor, has spent four days on the witness stand being asked about the most intimate details of his life.

The teen admitted he was lying when he told police that he forced the 33-year-old woman to have sex at gunpoint when he was 15 and that he knew he was committing perjury when he testified in an earlier court hearing that the sex came after she told him she wasn't interested.

In Kent County Circuit Court, Wednesday, Nov. 19, the boy revealed that he and his former tutor had sex every other day when he was a 15-year-old sophomore football player at Catholic Central High School in 2013.

In this testimony, the teen said the sex was initiated by the woman and that he never did anything to hurt her.

The teen was questioned by Flint-area attorney Michael Manley, who represents Abigail Simon. Simon is charged with four counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct. She was arrested on Aug. 8, 2013, at her family home in the Flint suburb of Grand Blanc.

But Manley contends it is the powerful teen who overpowered and then terrorized the tutor over the approximately three months they were together.

In testimony that began last Friday and stretched into its fourth day, the teen told Assistant Kent County Prosecutor Helen Brinkman that he was a virgin before he entered into a relationship with Simon.

On Wednesday, Manley asked the boy again and again whether he sexually abused the woman, controlled every aspect of her life, stalked her and threatened suicide whenever she tried to end the relationship.

The teen remained calm and usually answered flatly, “no,” when accused of violence against the woman by the defense attorney.

The boy also said numerous times that he did not remember when asked about some of the text messages.

"Why were you going to take the blame?" Manley asked.

"Because I thought I loved her." the boy said.

Manley introduced police reports from April 2013 and Grand Rapids District Court testimony from September of the same year when the boy repeatedly alleged that he forced Simon to have sex, even going as far as saying he held a gun to her head.

"On Sept. 13, the oath didn't matter?" Manley asked the teen about swearing to tell the truth in court.

"No, I was trying to protect her," the teen said.

Police never believed the boy’s assertions at the time and now the teen says he lied because Simon had told him that if the relationship came to light, she would be the one in trouble.

The teen also testified that Simon’s father met the teen at Simon’s apartment on Bridge Street NW and the father told the teen that the incident should be between the two of them.

Brinkman and Manley produced a parade of more than 1,000 text messages and e-mails each claims show manipulation and emotional control of one side or the other over the course of the relationship.

Manley seemingly succeeded in showing the jury that the teen lied, but the teen remained courteous, unflappable and steadfast in his current assertion that he never hurt the woman.

“You controlled every move she made while you were together and while she was away?" Manley asked on Wednesday.

"Nope," the boy answered flatly more than once.

Simon wept during parts of the testimony. During breaks, the boy would turn with his back toward the defendant. The two never seemed to make eye contact.

Manley has promised the jury that Simon will take the stand in the trial that continues Thursday, Nov. 20.

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