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<p>WILKES-BARRE &#8212; A Laurel Run man who allegedly had sex with an underage girl several times pleaded guilty Thursday.</p><p>Christopher Michael Cornell, 21, entered a guilty plea to statutory sexual assault before Luzerne County Judge Joseph F. Sklarosky Jr.</p><p>Police say Cornell, who was 20 at the time, had sex with the 15-year-old Nanticoke girl multiple times in his East Noble Street residence last July.</p><p>He was arrested in September after a two-month investigation by Nanticoke police.</p><p>Sklarosky set Cornell&#8217;s sentencing date for Feb. 26. Sklarosky also ordered Cornell undergo sex-offender treatment evaluation and sex-offender counseling.</p><p>Cornell may also have no contact with the victim or any unsupervised contact with minors.</p><p>He was remanded to the Luzerne County Correctional Facility to await his punishment. Cornell will also be sentenced on unrelated counts of burglary and theft which stem from incidents in 2015.</p><style>
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Laurel Run man pleads guilty to having sex with teen