A man has denied sexually assaulting a toddler at his parents' house between 2011 and 2013, a court has heard.
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The now 48-year-old-man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, gave evidence on the second day of a hearing in the Launceston Magistrates Court after pleading not guilty to indecent assault.
It was alleged the man was a friend of the girl's mother and stepfather between 2011 to 2013 and would occasionally spend time at their house.
The court previously heard the girl and the man got on well and would play together, with the girl's mother allowing her to go for a sleepover at the man's house in Northern Tasmania.
During a 2017 police interview, the girl said the man "licked my rude parts" when she stayed at his 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".
"I said, 'stop, stop, please stop'," she said.
The accused told the court the girl who was aged three or four at the time had never been to a house he had lived in and never spent the night.
"[The girl] has never ever stepped foot in my parents' house," he said.
The court heard the accused attended two of the toddler's birthday parties, as well as her mother's engagement party.
In an interview with police two years ago, the accused denied knowing the girl but on Tuesday told the court he knew who police were referring to during the interview.
Prosecutor Virginia Jones asked the man why he didn't tell police about attending the functions.
The accused said it was because the police didn't ask.
Defence lawyer Lucy Flanagan told the court in her closing address it was reasonable for her client not to have an incredible recollection of the functions because he only attended for short periods of time.
During her closing, Ms Jones said the girl maintained her version of events and was able to vividly describe what happened using child-appropriate terms because some of the man's features make him memorable.
The court also heard from the girl's mother, who detailed the day her daughter told her about the alleged sexual assault on the first day of the hearing.
Ms Jones said the mother's evidence could be used as complainant evidence.
Ms Flanagan told the court the accused's name was suggested by the girl's mother when after her daughter described the person she said was responsible for the alleged sexual assault.
Ms Flanagan said when the girl was annoyed her mother wasn't paying her enough attention shortly before telling her about the alleged incident that occurred several years before.
But Ms Jones said the girl denied she made up the incident to get attention from her mother and the nature of her allegation was too specific to be a story told to get attention.
Magistrate Simon Brown bailed the accused to reappear for decision on September 25.
