An alleged child sex offender has been remanded in Canberra jail after he failed to appear in court for the second time in three months.

The 28-year-old Nowra man, charged with committing an act of indecency on a child under 10, was arrested in NSW and brought to the ACT to face court on Tuesday.

In the ACT Magistrates Court, he was refused bail owing to his history of poor compliance with court orders.

The man, who cannot be legally named, was first arrested in December last year, accused of sexually assaulting a child known to him while she was wearing pyjama shorts.

The charge was classified as family violence.

The South Coast man pleaded not guilty and was granted bail despite " a recent and terrible track record " of complying with court orders, to reappear in court in June 202

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