A student allegedly raped in a university dorm room confided to a residential advisor she had sex with the defendant, a court has heard.
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The evidence contradicts the woman's claims she sought to meet the accused man after he spread details of the encounter among his friends.
A 23-year-old man is accused of raping the woman at an Australian National University residential college in late 2011.
He has pleaded not guilty to sexual intercourse without consent and is on trial in the ACT Supreme Court.
The woman says the pair had kissed on the dance floor of a Civic club and then travelled back to the dormitory together.
She went back to his room, where they kissed again, before he allegedly repeatedly attempted to touch her genitals.
The woman pushed his hand away and said "No", but the man allegedly pushed her down, took off her pants, and digitally penetrated and raped her.
The ACT Supreme Court trial, which entered its second day on Tuesday, heard from a residential advisor at the dormitory at the time.
The advisor – who knew both the accused and alleged victim – said the woman informed him she had sex with the man.
When asked if the accused had told him that information, he said he could not recall a conversation with him.
But, during her evidence, the alleged victim told the court she had organised to meet the defendant after the residential advisor mentioned the defendant had boasted to his friends he had had sex with her.
"I just thought if I saw him I could tell him to stop telling people," she told jurors.
On Tuesday, the court also heard from the woman's boyfriend, who said she had told him she went to the defendant's room to tell him she planned to report him for rape.
But the pair instead had sex after he had been nice and kissed her, she said.
The court heard the defendant raised the prospect about them dating after this encounter.
The boyfriend was the first person she told of the allegation, he said.
Jurors were told the man saw the defendant with his arms around the woman in line outside a Civic nightclub in 2012.
When the boyfriend then asked her if she wanted to be with him or the defendant, she broke down in tears and said the defendant had raped her.
Two months later, she told her new boyfriend her full account, falling to the floor in tears in the process.
He said he had been with her when she reported it to dormitory authorities in 2012, and supported her when she went to the police in 2013.
The court had previously heard, after the alleged rape, the woman had told the defendant she wanted nothing to do with him, but left him her phone number at his request.
In cross-examination, defence barrister James Lawton produced several pages of social media and text message interactions between the pair from during their casual sexual relationship.
Jurors heard the pair usually communicated via Facebook and would watch movies together before having sex.
The word "debate" was used as a metaphor for sex, but the woman denied she initiated the encounters.
When Mr Lawton suggested the alleged rape had actually been consensual sex, she replied: "[No], we wouldn't be here if that was the case".
The woman also denied she had made the allegation under pressure from her boyfriend.
The trial before Justice John Burns continues on Wednesday.
Editor's note: The name of the accused has been removed from the originally published story. The man was acquitted of these charges.
