McNeal also worked with Norah Jones and Brett Dennen

Peter Ivan McNeal, former drummer with Cake, has been jailed for 15 years for molesting a toddler.

The 48-year-old was sentenced in Los Angeles for sexually assaulting a three-year-old girl at a Laurel Canyon Thanksgiving party in 2009, the Los Angeles Times reports. He must also register as a sex offender for life.

McNeal was found guilty of oral copulation of a child 10 years old or younger back in March 2013 but was sentenced by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Fred Wapner yesterday (Tuesday 2 December, 2014).

His previous record shows charges for misdemeanour, and being sentenced to three years probation in relation to a separate incident of attemping to molest a six-year-old at a Los Angeles school where he was volunteering.

Cake, who rose to fame in 1996 with second album Fashion Nugget and single 'The Distance', asked McNeal (who has also worked with the likes of Norah Jones and Brett Dennen) to join the band in 2001 to replace Todd Roper. He exited the band in 2004.