A 28-year-old Oregon man who told police he was homeless changed his plea to guilty Friday, admitting felony sexual battery against a Canyon County girl who was 16 or 17 years old.

Joshua James Stueckle was working at the Haunted World Halloween-themed attraction north of Nampa when he was arrested in October and charged with two counts of sexual battery. The charges involved two underage girls, but one of the charges was dropped in exchange for his guilty plea. The plea deal cancels Stueckle’s trial, which had been set to start on Valentine’s Day.

Stueckle’s sentencing hearing is set for April 17, and he is being held in the Canyon County jail on $500,000 bond. The maximum sentence for sexual battery of a child s life in prison.

Stueckle also faces a federal charge of failure to register as a sex offender. He told detectives he was registered as a sex offender in Oregon.

Stueckle was arrested Oct. 14 after a 16-year-old girl told detectives she had sexual contact with him the night before at Caldwell's Rotary Ponds.