A former Santa Monica High School coach pleaded no contest Wednesday to nine felony counts stemming from unlawful sexual relationships with three underage girls, authorities said.
Michael Hearn, 38, pleaded to six counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with three girls under 18, one count of a lewd act on a child, one count of oral copulation on a person under 16 and one count of sending harmful material to a minor electronically.
With the plea, Hearn, who spent two years as an assistant football and basketball coach at Santa Monica High, avoids a jury trial that was scheduled to begin this week.
Sentencing before Los Angeles County Superior Judge Katherine Mader was set for Tuesday. Hearn faces a maximum of two years in state prison.