Jeremy Thomas, 31, is alleged to have called the intellectually disabled teenager his "baby girl'' and had plans to bring her to Bendigo where they could have sex.

He was arrested in mid-August after getting off a train at Southern Cross Station with the girl.

He appeared in the Bendigo Magistrates Court on August 15 for a bail application, where he was described by police as "every parent's worst nightmare".

Bail was denied by magistrate Gregory McNamara.

Thomas made a second application for bail in the Kerang Magistrates Court this week. It was granted with conditions he live in Maiden Gully, report to police once a week and not use his mobile phone or any social networking site.

Thomas is alleged to have struck up a conversation with the young girl on Facebook on August 2.

Police allege he made arrangements to bring the girl to Bendigo for sex, despite her repeatedly telling him she was 14.

"On August 12, Thomas caught a train and then a taxi to the girl's house. He then left with the girl and travelled to Geelong and on to Southern Cross station,'' Leading Senior Constable Dave Somerton, prosecuting, said during the first bail application in August.

"He then planned to travel to Bendigo and had paid the victim's fare."

It is alleged Thomas sexually assaulted the girl during the journey.

Leading Senior Constable Somerton said police found four mobile phones at Thomas' house and one showed that significant planning had gone into the alleged abduction.

"The accused saved the victim's number under 'baby girl'," he said.

"He also sent a text message to a third party stating 'her mum has just gone to work, time for the big move'.

The court was told Thomas believed the girl was 17.

Defence lawyer Luke Docherty said Thomas had a low IQ, was on a disability support pension and that it was the victim who added him as a Facebook friend.

"The victim added him as a friend," he previously told the court.

"It wasn't him grooming her, it was a two-way street: when he arrived she had her bags packed.

"He is being painted as a predatory creature who goes out and hunts this girl - it's not correct."

Thomas is charged with abducting a child under 16 to sexually penetrate, causing a child under 16 to be abducted, child stealing, performing an indecent act with a child under 16 and indecent assault.

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