A former Little Rock doctor accused of molesting a teenage boy has pleaded guilty to a sexual assault charge in Pulaski County Circuit Court, records show.

Circuit Judge Wendell Griffin sentenced 54-year-old James Nesmith on Monday to five years supervised probation, according to the plea agreement.

Nesmith was also ordered to pay a $15,000 fine, surrender his medical license, register as a sex offender and avoid contact with minors.

Nesmith was arrested last October on one count of second-degree sexual assault after the victim said the doctor grabbed his genitals when he was 14 years old, authorities said then.

Nesmith, who was an associate professor at UAMS and a physician at Arkansas Children's Hospital at the time of his arrest, surrendered to authorities following the allegations.

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CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story listed an incorrect hospital where James Nesmith practiced.