A 19-year-old southeast Nebraska man has been given two to five years in prison for sexually assaulting a child.

Damien Hartman, of York, was sentenced on Monday. He’d pleaded no contest to sexually assaulting a 3-year-old girl.

Hartman’s attorney, Nancy Waldron, says Hartman had been molested and abused as a child and was intoxicated the day he was caught molesting the girl.

Prosecutor Candace Dick told the judge that Harman didn’t seek help to keep from becoming a perpetrator himself. Dick says Hartman “crossed that line and needs to pay for his crime.”

Hartman was given credit for 125 days already served.