A mother has cried as she recalled the moment her daughter revealed she had allegedly been abused by their Buddhist temple's head monk.

The girl, who alleges she was abused from the age of nine, did not speak about it until she was an adult because she feared she would not be believed, her mother said.

"She said Vijitha Sadhu touched my body and kissed my lips, she had never been kissed," she told Victoria's County Court on Thursday, between tears.

"I was so shocked to hear that because I trust him so much."

Venerable Naotunne Vijitha, 70, has been accused of 19 child sexual offences dating back to the mid-1990s.

The chief monk of Dhamma Sarana temple in Keysborough, in Melbourne's southeast, has denied all offending and is facing the second week of a jury trial.

He is accused of sex

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