A woman says she followed her alleged molester, Cameron Flynn Tully, into a dark room on his family's "Hillview" farm because "you never disobeyed a Tully".
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The woman, then nine years old, went to the Tully farm in West Belconnen for years in the 1990s.
Her mother became involved with the family's home-birthing group, and their family began going to church and other regular events at the farm, the ACT Supreme Court heard on Wednesday.
The woman recalled a night she sat watching a movie with other children in the property's "children's room".
She said the girl sitting next to her got up and left and Mr Tully came into the room.
The woman told the court he sat next to her, she ended up on his lap, and he put a blanket over both.
She alleges Mr Tully, now 41, then touched her sexually for about 10 to 15 minutes.
Mr Tully then got up, she said, and walked towards his room, telling her she should come with him.
She stayed in the children's room and he later came back out of his room and asked her again.
"I felt like there was less of a question and that he just expected me to do what he was saying," she said.
Crown prosecutor Trent Hickey asked the woman why she had followed him into the room.
"You never disobeyed a Tully," she responded.
The woman told the court children were taught to do everything that the Tully family asked, something that was reinforced by the adults.
"You just had to do what they said."
She said she followed Mr Tully into a dark room and he sat on the bed.
He allegedly made her touch his penis.
She alleges he took off her underwear and wanted to take off her dress, but she did not let him.
"He said it didn't matter anyway because he could do what he needed to do with it on."
She alleges he performed more sexual acts before other children began calling for her. Mr Tully made her climb through a window, she said, so as not to be seen.
She also told the court of another incident during a bonfire at the farm for the Queen's Birthday long weekend.
The woman said Mr Tully led her into the property's shearing shed while others were at the bonfire and performed oral sex on her.
She is the third complainant to give evidence against Mr Tully.
Earlier on Wednesday, a second woman detailed two incidents involving Mr Tully, one where he allegedly touched her inappropriately while giving her a piggyback, and another when he allegedly kissed her at the Majura Community Centre.
Mr Tully has denied the allegations and shook his head at points during the evidence on Wednesday morning.
He is accused of 23 offences against eight children, ranging from sexual intercourse, oral sex, digital penetration and acts of indecency.
His barrister Ray Livingston suggested to the first two witnesses that Mr Tully never interfered with them in any way.
Mr Livingston said in his opening submission on Monday that he would be exploring "considerable communications" between the complainants before the allegations were made.
The trial continues on Thursday before Justice John Burns.
