ALPENA — Noah Adkins, an 18-year-old man facing charges for the attempted kidnapping of a young girl, pleaded guilty to kidnapping and assault charges on Monday, according to Alpena County Prosecutor Cynthia Muszynski.

According to Muszynski, Adkins pleaded guilty to one count of kidnapping-child enticement and one count of assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder.

Adkins also faced one count of assault or assault and battery, however, that charge was dismissed upon Adkins’s plea since, according to Muszynsk, it covered the same fact pattern as the assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder charge.

“The assault and battery charge was based on the same fact pattern as the assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder charge and therefore, even if we went to jury trial, he would not have been able to be convicted of both,” said Muszynski. “He pled to the greater of the two, so at that point, I had to get rid of the lesser.”

According to Muszynski, 26th Circuit Court Judge Ed Black decided that he would reexamine the pre-examination report for the case in addition to two psychological reports done on Adkins and be sentencing him at a later date.

“The judge decided to review the presentence investigation report more, he’s going to review the two different psychological reports that were done on Noah,” said Muszynski. “Then he’s going to make his sentencing decision at a later date.”

Adkins was arrested on May 10 after trying to kidnap and beat an eight-year-old girl in Alpena Township.

According to a Michigan State Police press release, Adkins was reported to have approached the girl in her backyard and attempted to incapacitate her. The victim managed to escape Adkins and her 13-year-old brother used a slingshot to hit Adkins in his head and chest, police and the girl’s family said.

After fleeing the scene Adkins was later identified by the wounds on his head and chest and taken in by police later that day, police said.

The press release claims that Adkins confessed to police, while he was in custody, that he planned to severely beat the victim.