Victims and their families embraced outside the courtroom after the verdicts were passed down, visibly relieved after a long, harrowing trial in the ACT Supreme Court.

Tully sat still, looking straight ahead and occasionally shaking his head as he was found guilty of 18 charges.

He was cleared of one charge and the jury couldn't reach a verdict on another.

His family sobbed as the jury condemned Tully.

Eight young women were molested at the hands of Tully, now 40, in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Much of the abuse took place on the Tully family farm in West Belconnen.

Hordes of children were brought to the property as their parents met for church group, ladies’ meetings, and home birthing groups.

Girls were abused in the shearing shed, and in the laundry, library, and bedrooms in the farm’s main rammed-earth building.

One was lured into a room with the promise of a kitten, and another molested as Tully gave her a piggyback.

Tully molested a nine-year-old girl on the couch, before he asked her to come into his room, where he again sexually assaulted her.

She was asked why she had followed him into the dark room.

"You never disobeyed a Tully," she responded.

Another woman gave emotional evidence of being raped in the shearing shed during a 1998 Queen’s Birthday bonfire, repeatedly breaking down.

"I just remember the pain," she said, when asked about details surrounding the abuse.

The molestation was not confined to the Hillview farm.

One girl, not yet four, was playing hide and seek at a Canberra home, but couldn’t count to 100, so Tully offered to help.

He took her inside and instead indecently assaulted her in the property’s lounge room while other children hid.

"There's some things you don't forget," she said.

Tully completely denied the charges, expressing his disgust over the claims when giving evidence.

Family and friends also gave evidence in support of Tully, attesting to his good character, and his lack of attendance at the farm due to a busy work schedule.

The defence tried to contradict some of the evidence of the victims and their relatives, including that there was no 1998 bonfire, and that a fold-out couch was never placed in the library, despite the prosecution’s claims to the contrary.

A number of defence witnesses said they had no issue allowing their children to be around Tully.

It took the ACT Supreme Court jury just short of three days to find Tully guilty of molesting the eight girls.

Justice John Burns revoked Tully’s bail while he awaits sentencing.

He was led out in handcuffs, urging family to be strong as he left.

Tensions had been running high between Tully's supporters and victims and their families in the courtroom.

Justice Burns urged those in the public gallery not to interrupt as the jury delivered their verdicts.

Tully will face a sentencing hearing in September.