A man laid his naked daughter on a church altar where pedophile priest Gerald Francis Ridsdale sexually assaulted her, an Australian court has heard.
The country's worst pedophile priest has admitted sexually abusing another 12 children, one as young as 6, over three decades.
Ridsdale told some of his victims the abuse was "part of God's work", the Victorian County Court heard today.
On one occasion in 1974 a father woke his scared young daughter to take her to a Catholic Church in Ballarat where Ridsdale abused her.
"(The 10-year-old's) father carried her to the confessional booth and took her clothes off her, then carried her to the altar and lay her down," crown prosecutor Jeremy McWilliams said.