BANGOR – A Dover-Foxcroft man who held police at bay for eight hours in late September was sentenced on Wednesday in Penobscot County Superior Court to 15 years in prison with all but seven years suspended.

Kenneth Cosenze, 44, also was sentenced to serve six years of probation after his release from prison.

Cosenze was sentenced after he pleaded guilty to five counts of gross sexual assault and three counts of sexual assault. He also pleaded guilty to aggravated assault, a charge that resulted from the standoff.

He was indicted by a Penobscot County grand jury in 2004 on 13 counts of gross sexual assault and three counts of unlawful sexual contact.

In pleading guilty, Cosenze admitted that he sexually abused three pre-pubescent girls between 1994 and 1996 when he lived in the Bangor area.

Cosenze has been in Penobscot County Jail since his arrest in September for failure to attend his initial court appearance on the indictment.