A toddler repeatedly asked a man who indecently assaulted her to stop, a court has heard.
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During the Launceston Magistrates Court hearing into the incident on Tuesday, a video interview of the girl making the complaint to police in 2017 was played.
It was alleged the man was a friend of the girl's mother and stepfather between 2011 to 2013, which was when the incident was believed to have occurred.
The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told police about the night she stayed at the man's house.
The girl said the man was lying next to her on a mattress on the floor in his lounge room when he "hopped on me and went under the blankets".
"He licked my rude parts," she said.
The court heard the girl tried to kick the man off her and started crying.
"I said, 'stop, stop, please stop'."
After she was free from the man she ran to the front door and cried out for her mum, the court heard.
The man, who also cannot be named for legal reasons, allegedly told her it was too late to go home and the next thing the girl said she remembered was waking up the next day.
That morning before the man drove the toddler home he told her not to tell anyone about what had happened or she could go to jail, the court heard.
Both the girl's family and the man moved out of the Tasmanian town after the incident and did not spend anymore time together, the court heard.
In an interview with police in 2017 the man was asked if he knew the girl and the accusations were put to him.
"I don't know who this young girl is," he said.
Throughout the hearing the court heard evidence from the girl's two grandmothers who both said they'd met the man at family parties, including birthday functions for the girl and an engagement party.
The mother of the girl also gave evidence on Tuesday, telling the court her daughter and the man were close and she often played with him at functions.
The man confirmed to police he knew the girl's mother and stepfather, but denied he knew the mother's children.
He said the allegations were "crap".
"I'm not like that. You can put me on a lie detector," he said.
The court heard the girl told her mother about what happened at the man's house about five years later because she became upset while playing a game with a friend.
The girl said the man's first name was used in an unrelated context during a fantasy game the friends were playing.
The court heard the girl had an argument with her mother on the day she confided in her about the incident.
While giving evidence via videolink, the girl was asked by the man's lawyer if she made up the incident to get attention from her mother but the girl said no.
Two more people are expected to give evidence at the hearing when it recommences before Magistrate Simon Brown on August 27.