A man accused of rubbing his penis on a five-year-old child was granted bail when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday.

The accused appeared before Senior Resident Magistrate Glen Brown to answer to a charge of indecent assault.

The court was told that the complainant's mother saw her coming from the accused man's room. She reportedly told her mother that the accused rubbed his penis against her vagina. The accused and complainant live at the same house.

A lawyer representing the accused told the court his client was getting ready to leave for work when police accosted him.

Senior RM Brown said, "I dislike paedophiles," in response to the lawyer's application for bail. She, however, revealed that the accused man could live elsewhere. On that basis, he was granted $30,000 bail and ordered to move to Portland. The matter is to be tried on February 29.