A window cleaner accused of sexually molesting a seven-year-old girl has pleaded not guilty to two sexual assault charges against him.
Gregory John Vagg, 58, is on trial for the charges of sexual assault of the girl at her Hunter’s Hill home in Sydney in 2010.
The Sydney Morning Herald reported Vagg appeared before the Downing Centre District Court in Sydney on Wednesday.
Crown prosecutor Gina O'Rourke, SC, described to the jury how Vagg allegedly put his hands underneath the victim's skirt and sexually assaulted her on two occasions between July and December 2010.
One of the acts was said to have occurred while the girl's mother was inside the home.
O'Rourke told the jury that after Vagg allegedly assaulted the girl "she did not say anything because she was too scared".
The prosecutor also said the man was cleaning the window at the girls house when she arrived home for church with her mother. He said the girl did not tell her mother until five years after the alleged events.
The accusations came to light when the girl, then aged 12, was talking to her mother in the car when the subject of a window cleaner came up.
"I don't want that window cleaner to come back," she told her mother.
"I don't like him and I don't want him to come back here."
"He put his hand in my pants..."
The girl told police she had walked around the back of the house to offer her assistance to the cleaner.
She said she remembered seeing her mother in the kitchen.
The girl told police that "when I was little I thought it wasn't really like a big deal."
Defence lawyer Alan Conwell said there was doubt as to whether Vagg was the workman she intended to accuse.
"The defence case is really this: There is a question mark over whether [the victim] was sexually assaulted by any person however even if she was sexually assaulted by a workman it was not the accused Mr Vagg,"Conwell said.
The trial is ongoing.