A 62-year-old man is accused of sexually assaulting multiple children at a southern Minnesota day care.

Charges say the man from Sacred Heart, Minnesota, comes to the day care in Renville County for lunch and will sit with the older children while staff put the younger children down for naps.

One victim, a 9-year-old, told investigators that children would sit on his lap while they read and that while she had been sitting on his lap, he began to touch their "groin area," according to the criminal complaint. The victim added that the behavior had been going on for about a year, and that if they moved the man's hand away, he would "say, 'hey' or make a weird face." They reported that the last time it happened was on Aug. 13.

When law enforcement spoke with the man, charges say he admitted

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