A former Walker Township man admitted in court to trying to bribe a 5-year-old girl with lollipops to perform sexual acts after showing her pornography.

Victor D. Cain, 53, most recently of Coudersport, Potter County, pleaded guilty before Schuylkill County Judge Cyrus Palmer Dolbin to a felony charge of criminal attempt - indecent assault of a person less than 13 years of age, and a misdemeanor count of criminal attempt - indecent assault without the consent of the other.An additional charge of criminal attempt - indecent assault without the consent of the other, was dropped.Dolbin sentenced Cain to two and a half to five years in state prison, followed by five years of probation.Dolbin also ordered him to not have any contact with his victim or her family.Cain was represented by public defender Christopher M. Riedlinger.Cain was already a tier 3 sexual offender, meaning he is under Megan's Law restrictions for life, when he is believed to have assaulted the girl on Sept. 18, 2015, in West Penn Township.Cain was classified as a sexual predator after being convicted of corruption of minors and aggravated indecent assault on April 24, 1998, in Clearfield County.According to a criminal complaint filed by West Penn Township police officer Denna V. Krammes, she was contacted by Schuylkill County Children and Youth Services Agency on July 6, 2016, concerning a June 29, 2016, report of suspected child abuse.According to the report, Cain was in the psychiatric unit of a Pottsville hospital when he told a counselor he asked the child to touch him.Cain's girlfriend told Children and Youth staff Cain admitted to molesting the girl on Sept. 18, 2015.On June 30, 2016, caseworkers interviewed the child, who told them she was on the couch with Cain when he offered her a lollipop if she let him touch her.He reached toward her, but she pushed his hands away. He then offered a lollipop again to let him touch her and to not tell anyone.Krammes and a caseworker interviewed the child again on July 28, 2016.The girl told them she didn't like Cain because "he doesn't take a bath."She described what happened on Sept. 18, 2015, saying she was sleeping on the couch while Cain sat next to her, looking at his laptop.The girl said Cain pushed on her shoulder to wake her, and heasked her to look at his laptop with him.They were, "Yucky videos. Yucky pictures, and people naked touching each other's private parts," the child said.She said Cain tried to touch her, and offered her a lollipop. She pushed him away, told him keep his hands to himself and said she would tell.The child said he had tried several other times to touch her inappropriately.