A Warren man will register as a sex offender for the next 15 years as a result of a sentence handed down Friday morning.

Dakota Hepler-Kostreba, 25, will also spend about two years in state prison for sexually victimizing two minors and physically assaulting a third.

He was sentenced to charges at three dockets.

At one he pled guilty to touching the breast of a 17-year-old female and also reached down her pants and over her underwear. He provided marijuana to a 15-year-old who was at his residence and also pushed his body into hers and touched her stomach and chest without consent on the second set of charges.

On the third, the victim was just three years old and Hepler-Kostreba bit the child, leaving noticeable bite marks on the victim’s leg. His attorney, Assistant Public Defender Mike Kitay, noted his client has two children of his own, has no prior criminal record and “has his whole life ahead of him.”

He “has two children he wants to be a good father to,” Kitay added. “I believe there is likely an underlying mental health disease that has gone to his actions for these three dockets.”

Kitay further said his client has anger issues and that Hepler-Kostreba “understands that. He wants to get help.”

Assistant District Attorney Tatiana Malys asked for his state sentence and said his success “depends on him and his own will.

“He really has to work on this,” she said, asking that he have no contact with his children or any children. “I don’t think he should be around children. Right now, I don’t think he should have any contact.”

Hepler-Kostreba said he was under the influence when these offenses and does “agree I do have problems.

“What I did was not right,” he said, indicating he is “taking full responsibility for it. (I) do want to be able to be in contact with my family and make things right.” President Judge Maureen Skerda, who handed down the sentence, said she “recognizes what addiction does to people” but “also recognize(s) you also need to be held accountable for your actions.”

She said the conduct occurred over several months.

“There’s been over a year of behaviors,” she said. “You were aware of your behaviors. You weren’t doing anything to help yourself.” He was then sentenced on the first docket to eight to 16 months in state prison with credit for 186 days time served, $1,325 in fines and fees, one year state probation, submission of a DNA sample, a no contact order, the completion of sexual offenders counseling prior to release and a 15 year registration period as a Tier I sexual offender on a count of corruption of minors and an additional three months to 12 months on indecent assault without consent of other. At the second docket, he was sentenced to three to 12 months incarceration in state prison, $825 in fines and fees, submission of a DNA sample and completion of sexual offender counseling prior to release on a count of corruption of minors and three to 12 months incarceration on a count of indecent assault without consent of other. He is also a Tier I sexual offender at this docket.

On the third docket, he was sentenced to 12 to 48 months incarceration in state prison, mental health and drug and alcohol evaluations and compliance with recommendations, fines and fees and submission of a DNA sample on a count of endangering the welfare of children. He is not boot camp or recidivism risk reduction incentive eligible. A count of simple assault merged for sentencing purposes.