CONNELLSVILLE, Pa. -- Police said a Fayette County man claimed he sexually assaulted a 5-year-old by accident.

Connellsville officials arrested Jeremiah McGee, 25, on Thursday and charged him with several felony counts.

Police said the girl was in McGee's care at his West Cedar Avenue home for the weekend when the alleged assault happened.

When the girl returned home, she told her mother what happened, police said.

According to police, when McGee was interviewed, he told them the assault must have been an accident.

Court papers said he admitted to sleeping in bed with the girl when he heard a noise, which police said might have been the girl screaming for help.

He said the alleged assault might have happened while he was asleep, dreaming.

Police charged McGee with felony rape of a child, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and statutory sexual assault.

He is in the Fayette County Prison on $100,000 bond until he faces a judge on the charges later this month.

"Any type of charge like this, we are going to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law and let the court system take its part in it," said Chief Ed McSheffrey of the Connellsville Police Department.

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