The men received sentences of 15 years and seven years in state prison.
TOMS RIVER -- Two men were sentenced Monday for sexually assaulting children, while another man admitted to sexually assaulting a 4-year-old victim.
Carl Creadle, 47, of Lakewood, was handed a sentence of 15 years in state prison for sexually assaulting a 6-year-old in February. Authorities said he knew the victim.
Creadle pleaded guilty to first-degree aggravated sexual assault.
Judge Wendel E. Daniels ordered Creadle parole supervision for life, and upon his release, he must register as a sex offender and have no contact with the victim.
Manuel Ramos, 40, of Newark, received a sentence of seven years in state prison for sexually assaulting two 7 - and 8-year-old victims in Forked River in separate incidents that occurred between October and December in 2011.
In August, he pleaded guilty to second-degree sexual assault after the state presented its evidence in a trial.
Ramos was mandated by Judge Daniels to have no early release, parole supervision for life and he must register as a sex offender upon his release from prison.
The state had requested Daniels sentence Ramos to eight years in prison, while his attorney argued for six years.
Meanwhile, a 66-year-old man from Jersey City, Russell Cortese, pleaded guilty to first-degree aggravated sexual assault.
Authorities say Cortese sexually assaulted a 4-year-old victim who he knew in August in Point Pleasant Borough.
The state is seeking a 15-year state prison sentence for Cortese.
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