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A 66-year-old Warren County man was convicted Thursday of sexually assaulting a child multiple times when the minor was between the ages of 8 and 11, authorities said. Joseph Gares, of Phillipsburg, was found guilty of aggravated sexual assault, criminal attempted aggravated sexual assault, four counts of second-degree sexual assault, lewdness and endangering the welfare of a child, according to a release from the Warren County Prosecutor’s Office. Gares was found not guilty of first-degree aggravated sexual assault, the office said. The assaults happened between 2012 and 2016, officials said….