HONOLULU — A plea deal with prosecutors will allow a former Hawaii police officer to serve probation rather than jail time for sexually assaulting a child.

News outlets reported Wednesday that 45-year-old Teddy O. Van Lerberghe has reached an agreement guaranteeing a five-year probation sentence with no jail term. He must register as a convicted sex offender for life.

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An Oahu grand jury indicted him in 2017 on seven counts of sexual assault against a 5-year-old girl beginning in 2004 and continuing until 2008.

Van Lerberghe pleaded no contest to the seven felonies.

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He served in the Honolulu Police Department from 2007 until he was fired in 2016.

A spokesman says the Honolulu prosecutor’s office will not comment until after Van Lerberghe is sentenced by a judge in August.