NEW CITY – A Sullivan County man admitted Thursday to sexually abusing a child over a period of several years in Rockland County, prosecutors said.

Joel Deutsch, 34, entered guilty pleas in Rockland County Court to predatory sexual assault of a child, course of sexual conduct against a child in the first degree and second-degree rape before Judge Kevin F. Russo.

According to prosecutors, Deutsch sexually abused a girl between 2017 and 2024 in the Village of Wesley Hills while she was between the ages of 6 and 14. Authorities said the abuse included physical contact, vaginal intercourse and oral sexual contact. Deutsch was arrested in July of last year.

Prosecutors sought the maximum sentence of 25 years to life in state prison, but Russo promised Deutsch a sentence of 10 years to life on the top charge of predatory sexual assault of a child. Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 26, and Deutsch will be required to register as a sex offender upon his release from prison.

“My Office strongly objected to the sentence imposed yesterday as it did not reflect the gravity of the defendant’s actions,” Rockland County District Attorney Thomas E. Walsh II said. “The rapes and sexual abuse that the victim was subjected to was persistent and went on for several years, and we believed that the facts of this case fully justified the maximum penalty.”