“I want you to pay for what you’ve done to us,’’ a teenager who was one of the victims told Charles James Mellinger, 41, of 327 N. New St., looking at him in a Lancaster County Courtroom.

“To all of us,’’ she added.

“What you did to my daughter was reprehensible,’’ one of the girls’ fathers told Mellinger. But to assault multiple little girls, he added, “is reprehensible.’’

When the victims and attorneys finished talking, Judge Paul K. Allison sentenced Mellinger to 2!-W to 5 years in state prison, plus 7 years of probation.

In addition, Allison deemed Mellinger a sexually violent predator, meaning he will have to register his whereabouts with the state police for the rest of his life.

“What I did was despicable,’’ Mellinger told Allison, apologizing to the victims, their parents and his own family.

Mellinger was charged by Warwick Township Police Detective Ed Tobin last January with multiple counts of aggravated indecent assault, corruption of minors and indecent assault for allegedly assaulting two 12-year-old girls in his home in 1999 and 2001.

After reading in the newspaper that Mellinger had been charged with assault, four additional girls contacted police saying they, too, had been sexually assaulted by the man, Tobin said.

The additional incidents allegedly occurred at various times between 1993 and 2003, when the girls were between 8 and 13 years old, police said.

Mellinger pleaded guilty in July and has already begun counseling for sexual offenders in county prison, his attorney, J. Richard Gray, told the judge.

“He would like to apologize to his victims and their families,’’ Gray said, adding that Mellinger “doesn’t feel a lot better about himself than they feel about him.’’

Mellinger is actually “relieved he’s been caught,’’ Gray said, “so that he can begin to confront his behavior and his problems.’’

Law enforcement authorities in Maryland have also accused Mellinger of assaulting a girl there, but Gray said those charges are still pending.

One of the local victims has since died in a car accident, Assistant District Attorney Jeff Conrad told the judge, but her case remained part of today’s sentence.

Before the sentence was imposed, Allison heard from Dr. Robert Stein, a psychologist who evaluated the case for the Pennsylvania Sex Offenders Board.

Stein said the fact that Mellinger had multiple victims, befriended their families and fondled and molested the girls, helped him conclude that the defendant is a sexually violent predator.

One victim, Stein noted, told police Mellinger gave her alcohol, after which she fell asleep and awoke to find him molesting her.

Mellinger sobbed as, one by one, victims and parents tearfully read statements, telling him how his actions had damaged their lives and betrayed their trust.

One girl talked about the “haunted barn’’ Mellinger set up every year on her property, and how hurt and confused she was when he assaulted her.

“I’m ashamed of myself for opening my heart to such a person,’’ one father said.