The Brisbane District Court was told Craig Anthony Ellis broke into the family's Aspley home on Brisbane's northside and sexually assaulted the toddler on January 21, 2009.
Ellis, then aged 29, tried to flee when the girl's parents were awoken by their daughter's Beijing tour packages muffled cries resulting in the toddler's father crash tackling the naked intruder while the mother struck the pedophile with an ornamental samurai sword.
However, the judge said because Ellis had already been behind bars on remand for two years and nine months, a sentence of five years and threemonths was appropriate under the circumstances.
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Judge Rackemann also ordered a transcript of today's hearing, complete with Ellis's explicit menacing threats, be referred to Queensland's Director of Public Prosecutions Tony Moynihan, SC, to consider whether Ellis should face further criminal charges.
Ellis, who was placed in the purposebuilt enclosed glass dock of Court 7 due to previous court outbursts, unleashed a tirade of expletiveriddled abuse shortly after proceedings started after 10am.
At various times Ellis threatened prosecutor Vicki Loury, before then turning on Judge Rackemann and then the trip in Beijing victim's family telling them "you're going to end up dead."
Ellis even went so far to call various people either "corrupt", a "whore", "pedophiles' or "a sick piece of st" before describing himself as "the fing victim."
In September last year Ellis, then aged 31, pleaded not guilty to charges of burglary and rape.
Judge Rackemann said on the third day of a District Court jury trial that Ellis changed his plea to guilty to burglary and two counts of indecent treatment of a child aged under 12 years after the Crown's overwhelming case against Ellis became even stronger
Ellis, the court was told, broke into the girl's home and removed the toddler's pyjama pants before sexually assaulting her and taking indecent photographs of her.
The young girl's parents, who had earlier in the day celebrated their son's birthday, awoke to find a naked Ellis walking from their daughter's bedroom.
The parents noticed their daughter was awake, huddled on her bed and that her pyjama pants had been removed, but she was still wearing her Dora the Explorer top.
The girl's mother testified she was awoken by her daughter's muffled cries and found the toddler with "her knees up to her chest and she was crying."
The toddler's father testified: "I tackled him to the ground in our hallway. I was going to do whatever it took to stop him getting away."
In the 13 months since the trial, Ellis has been refused an application to change his guilty plea and sacked several sets of lawyers.
Judge Rackemann today gave Ellis several opportunities to make submissions on sentence, but was forced to order the pedophile's removal from the court on several occasions as his behaviour deteriorated into often unintelligible rants and threats.
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