Franz is scheduled to be sentenced next month.
The plea, which has an agreed to sentence of eight to 15 years, was reached ahead of his trial that was to begin Monday, according to officials.
According to the county prosecutor’s office, the five girl victims in the cases were not related to Franz.
He was arrested in September outside his Leycross Drive home after a grand jury indicted him for the sex crimes. He initially faced 14 counts of gross sexual imposition of a child, four counts of rape (involving a child), and one count of attempt to commit sexual imposition, according to court records.
Last October, one of the five girls said to have been his victims came forward, police said, and disclosed to them the names of several other possible victims.
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