A girl who was allegedly sexually abused by her father in their Canberra home told her examining doctor ''it stopped because dad went away'', a court has heard.
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A 47-year-old man, who cannot be named, is on trial for committing one act of indecency on his then eight-year-old daughter in April 2008.
The father, who is fighting the allegations, is accused of calling his daughter into his room, telling her to pull down her pants and get into his bed.
The Crown alleges he then put his penis between her legs.
The girl did not tell anyone of the alleged crime until 2010.
A doctor who examined the then 10-year-old girl in March 2010, after the report was made, gave evidence on Wednesday, the third day of the trial in the ACT Supreme Court.
The doctor, who works at a special unit at the Canberra Hospital designed for children at risk, said she asked the girl what had brought her there.
The girl had replied that her father touched her genitals with his penis from when she was three until she was nine.
The doctor said the girl told her she could now speak about the alleged indecency because her father had gone away.
Earlier on Wednesday afternoon, a police officer gave evidence about going to the home to talk to the girl's sister-in-law after the offence was first reported.
The officer said she was told the girl hid whenever her father came to the house and, when asked why, she said he had sexually abused her.
The officer said the sister-in-law told her that care and protection services had been called.
Care and protection services had told the sister-in-law that a report needed to be made to the police before they could act, the officer said.
Earlier this week, videos of the girl's interviews with police were played to the court.
In those interviews, the girl repeatedly broke down, at one point telling police she was trying to force herself to tell them what happened, but could not.
''I can see it's hard for you [name removed], but tell us what your dad did to you,'' one of the officers said at one point during the interview.
''I can't,'' she replied.
Eventually, at the end of one of the interviews, the girl wrote in an officer's notebook that her father yelled, made her sad, and that ''he had sex with me''.
In a later interview with police in May, she said that she had been too scared to say no to her father.
''I would always close my eyes because I was so scared,'' she told police.
The jury trial continues on Thursday before Justice Hilary Penfold.
