Peggy Wright

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MORRISTOWN - Two undocumented immigrants from Honduras were indicted Thursday on multiple charges of sexually assaulting a girl in Morristown beginning when she was 8 years old until last year, when she was 14.

A third man who also is undocumented - Jose Bueso, 20 - was charged last year with abusing the same girl, but he quickly pleaded guilty in October to touching an intimate part of her body in June and was sentenced last month to four years in state prison.

Bueso, who also lived in Morristown, faces deportation to Honduras when he finishes his sentence.

A Morris County grand jury on Thursday issued separate indictments against Orlando Soto, 50, of Abbett Avenue and Marcos Carias, 36, of Speedwell Avenue that charge them both with sexually abusing the girl over a period of years. Both men were arrested and charged last summer and are being held in the Morris County Jail in lieu of $150,000 bail each.

Soto was indicted on nine counts, including for burglary and attempted aggravated sexual assault by forcing his way into the victim's home in May and trying to sexually assault her.

Soto's alleged molestation of the girl began in August 2009 when she was 8 and included acts of penetration through August 2015, according to the indictment.

Because of the alleged burglary and attempted sexual assault upon the now-15-year-old girl in 2016, Soto was indicted on an overall charge of endangering the welfare of a child between August 2009 and May 31, 2016.

The grand jury indicted Carias on four counts that include three charges of sexual assault and one count of endangering the welfare of a child.

Carias is accused of touching the child on intimate parts of her body and having her touch his genitals between 2009 and August 2014.

Staff Writer Peggy Wright: 973-267-1142; pwright@GannettNJ.com.