A Maryland man was sentenced to a short prison term on Tuesday on a charge of indecent assault.

Jake Kroneberger, 24, of Pasadena, who previously pleaded to the charge, was sentenced by President Judge Roger N. Nanovic II to serve one to 18 months in prison.

He was charged by Franklin Township police on Dec. 2, 2016, for an incident at the Hampton Inn along Interchange Road. Police said Kroneberger was at the hotel over the Thanksgiving Day holiday weekend visiting the area when he was in a room with a relative and made inappropriate contact of a sexual nature with a girl. The girl resisted his advances and later told her mother, who called police.

In exchange for the plea to a misdemeanor two count, the district attorney’s office dropped a felony three count of corruption of a minor.

Defense attorney Jennifer Lynn Rapa, of the public defender’s office, told Nanovic that Kroneberger has a long history of mental health issues and has spent time in mental health facilities.

Kroneberger told the court he had consumed alcohol before the incident occurring.

He added, “What I did is unforgivable.”

The mother of the victim said she and her daughter and Kroneberger’s family were longtime friends and she trusted him. She said Kroneberger’s family never told her of his many mental health issues and put her daughter in harm’s way the night of the incident.

Nanovic also ordered that Kroneberger get both a drug and alcohol and mental health evaluations, zero tolerance for drug and alcohol use, supply a DNA sample, submit to a sexual offender’s evaluation, have no contact with the victim or her family, have no unsupervised contacts with minor children, pay court costs of about $1,000 and pay a $50 per month supervision fee while on parole.

The charge falls under Megan’s Law and Kroneberger must register for the next 15 years as a sexual offender. The state sexual offender’s assessment board determined he was not a violent sexual predator. If they had found him a violent sexual predator, the registration period would have been for life.

He will begin the jail term at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 27.