A woman says it didn't occur to her to run away from her alleged attacker because she was "too terrified to disobey him".
She was referring to the last of the four times she recalls David Beamsley allegedly sexually assaulting her when she was a child.
Beamsley is on trial at the Whanganui District Court after pleading not guilty to six charges of indecently assaulting a female under 12.
The alleged offending occurred between 1981 and 1984 in South Taranaki and New Plymouth and involved two girls.
"It has stuck in their memory and it is something that has scarred them," Crown prosecutor Chris Wilkinson-Smith told the jury of nine women and three men in opening the trial on Monday.