A young girl was paraded on an Internet chatroom web camera and made to perform sexual acts, a jury was told yesterday.

Christine Nicolson, 53, is on trial accused of inciting a child to perform a sexual act and engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child. Yesterday a jury at Oxford Crown Court watched a video of the girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, telling police Nicolson logged her on to chatrooms called Teen Party and Tipsy Teen using the name Babygirl in February 2005.

Paul Reid, prosecuting, told the jury that the girl then switched on a web camera to see other boys and girls her age who were online.

Shortly afterwards someone who called himself 'Jamie' logged on to the chatroom and revealed he was a man before asking the girl to take her clothes off, but she refused.

He then asked Nicolson to take part in sexual activities via the web camera instead, while the girl was still in the room, Mr Reid added.

Mr Reid said: "Christine Nicolson did precisely what had been requested. But it did not stop there."

Later Nicolson made the girl perform other sexual acts and warned her not to tell anyone when it finished, he added.

Nicolson, of Cholsebury Grange in Headington, Oxford, denies the charges.

The trial continues