Continuing questioning begun Friday, defense attorney Matt Wojda drew repeated admissions of untruths and changed stories from the now-17-year-old who said Winfield sexually assaulted him when he was between 11 and 13 years old.

Winfield denies the charges. The News does not identify alleged survivors of sexual assault.

Confronting Winfield’s former student with a string of details reported to police and courts since the boy levied the accusation in 2018, Wojda asked the witness to explain inconsistencies such as whether anyone else accompanied them during hotel visits allegedly used for sexual trysts while Winfield was under police investigation.

The witness stood by his previous testimony that his 6th grade teacher had sex with him at a campground, in a public parking lot, in nearly all rooms of her house including with other people present, and up to 100 times in Alpena’s Duck Park.

News Photo by Julie Riddle Heather Winfield, left, sits with attorney Dan White in Alpena’s 26th Circuit Court on Monday.

He conceded he had provided changing accounts of details such as the distance from a sex act to the accuser’s grandparents in the next room, whether he had threatened Winfield by saying he had a gun in his pocket, and how a friend responded after allegedly witnessing the boy and Winfield having sex on her basement floor.

Wojda confronted the witness with conflicting testimony he’d offered about a text recanting his accusations and about hitting Winfield in the face during an argument in 2018.

The witness told the jury he had access to Winfield’s phone and used it to send messages to his friends, posing as Winfield.

Under Wojda’s questioning, the alleged victim admitted he punched holes in Winfield’s walls, smashed video game controllers, and threw cans at her at her home, where he was invited to spend nights and weekends with the family and where the accuser alleges the two had regular sexual encounters, up to seven times a day.

Describing a sexual encounter with Winfield that allegedly happened on a trip to New York in 2017, which he never reported before Monday, the witness said he left that information out of other court hearings and police interviews because he didn’t want to talk about it.

“When you pick and choose which part of the truth to share, people might wonder if you’re being honest with them, right?” Wojda asked.

“Yes,” the witness responded.

Two family members and a one-time girlfriend of the alleged victim also testified on Monday.

One uncle described growing uncomfortable as he watched Winfield and the alleged victim playfully poke and pinch each other during a visit, followed by the then-11-year-old making repeated sexual comments.

A second uncle who worked with Winfield after she resigned from Thunder Bay Junior High School said he communicated with her regularly about his nephew, consulting with her on how to effectively discipline the boy he said was difficult to handle.

When the boy in 2018 told him of an ongoing sexual relationship with Winfield, the uncle, a mandated reporter because of his job, couldn’t report the allegation because Winfield was his superior and the boy his nephew, making such a report a conflict of interest. He instead told his parents, who reported the allegation to police, igniting the investigation leading to this week’s trial.

A previous report of possible inappropriate behavior between the two, made in 2016 by a schoolmate of the boy, led to an investigation that ended with no charges filed.

Before the boy raised the accusation to his uncle, the uncle and Winfield strategized via text on how to handle manipulative behavior by the boy, the uncle testified. They also discussed an inappropriate text relationship between the boy and a woman about two months before the boy accused Winfield of sexual assault, he said.

Winfield’s trial continues on Tuesday in Alpena’s 26th Circuit Court. Attorneys anticipate the trial will last until at least Friday.