A 54-year-old man impregnated a 15-year-old after he allegedly took her to stay Scotland for a month.
Jawwad Akram denies sexual activity with a child and facilitating the travel of another person with the view to exploitation between August and October 2021.
Harrow Crown Court heard on Tuesday that Akram repeatedly denied having sex with the teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, after he was first arrested.
Heather Stangoe, prosecuting, told the court that the girl later discovered she was pregnant and after she had an abortion, DNA analysis showed Akram was the biological father.
Jurors previously heard that the 15-year-old first went missing in August after her family refused to allow Akram to marry her.
The defendant allegedly took her to stay in a rented flat in Dundee and the girl’s mother did not know the whereabouts of her daughter until more than a month later.
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