Juan Fernandez performed multiple sexual acts on the boy from when he was six years old until he was 16, Morris County Prosecutor Robert J. Carroll, Chief of Detectives Robert McNally, and Montville Township Police Chief Andrew Caggiano said. Authorities said they began investigating Fernandez earlier this moth.
Fernandez pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated sexual assault, authorities said. . The last five years of his sentence will be spent at the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center, authorities said.
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