TRENTON (AP) — A New Jersey man initially accused of participating in what was said to have been a gang rape of a 7-year-old girl after her 15-year-old stepsister sold her for sex has been sentenced to three years of probation.

Gregory Leary, 21, of Trenton, pleaded guilty in March to child endangerment charges for bringing the girls to a vacant Trenton apartment where a party was being held in March 2010.

Mr. Leary was among six people charged after the younger girl was reported to have been assaulted at the party.

At least three of the other people charged were under 18 at the time.

Five of the six were eventually offered plea bargains to lesser charges after the case unraveled. Authorities lacked DNA evidence to prosecute, and the older girl gave varying accounts of what supposedly happened.