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Adam Bednarik in his playing days at the University of West Virginia. (Courtesy photo)

A Bethlehem Area School District coach and teacher's aide is charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old Freedom High School student, court papers say.

Adam Bednarik, 29, of the 1200 block of West Union Boulevard in Bethlehem, is charged with statutory sexual assault on a person at least 11 years his junior, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a person younger than 16, institutional sexual assault, indecent assault of a person less than 16 years old and five charges of corruption of a minor, court papers say.

Bednarik, who was a three-sport star at Bethlehem Catholic High School and The Express-Times Football Player of the Year in 2002, is scheduled to be arraigned Friday morning before District Judge John Capobianco in Nazareth, a court official said.

Bednarik, who coached girls basketball at East Hills Middle School and was a teacher's aide in the district, met the girl while she was a student at East Hills. The sexual assault occurred last August off-campus in Bethlehem Township, Pennsylvania, while the girl was a student at Freedom, according to an affidavit.

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After communicating for some months by iMessage on cellphones -- including at least one texted photo of Bednarik's penis -- the 29-year-old had sexual contact with the teen in Bedarnik's car parked in the 1400 block of Sculac Road in Bethlehem Township, court papers say.

A phone number for Bednarik wasn't immediately available.

His attorney, Frank Trovato, who is representing Bednarik along with attorney Gary Asteak, said, "Adam would not be making comments at this time."

Asteak couldn't immediately be reached for comment nor could Assistant District Attorney Pat Broscious.

Bethlehem Township police investigated and filed the charges.

According to court records, the victim told police that later in 2013 Bednarik began flirting with the girl and telling her she was beautiful. The two communicated regularly via text and cellphone, and in February 2014 he kissed her while giving her a ride home, police said.

Authorities said he sent her several pictures of himself between February and August of 2014, including at least one picture of his genitalia. He also enticed and persuaded the girl to send him pictures of herself naked, police said.

He had sexual contact with the girl in his car last August after he stopped along Sculac Drive while giving her a ride home from Musikfest, according to the affidavit.

The two continued communicating via text up to the day she reported it to a police officer in February of this year, police said. A police investigator conducted numerous interviews with other juveniles who corroborated the 15-year-old's accounts, the affidavit said.

Besides Becahi, Bednarik played football at West Virginia University and professionally for the Lehigh Valley Steelhawks. A Steelhawks spokesman said Bednarik left the team -- they play in an indoor football league -- in the middle of last season.

Bednarik is a distant cousin of late NFL great Chuck Bednarik.