Livermore golf coach admits seeking to kill boys he abused

Andrew Nisbet, a Livermore youth golf coach accused of child sexual abuse. Andrew Nisbet, a Livermore youth golf coach accused of child sexual abuse. Photo: Handout, Courtesy Livermore Police Depart Photo: Handout, Courtesy Livermore Police Depart Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Livermore golf coach admits seeking to kill boys he abused 1 / 1 Back to Gallery

A once-prominent Livermore golf coach pleaded guilty Thursday to charges of child molestation and solicitation of murder for trying to hire a hit man to kill victims he had assaulted.

Andrew Michael Nisbet, 32, will be sentenced Oct. 9 to 27 years and four months in state prison as part of a plea deal with Alameda County prosecutors, said Assistant District Attorney Teresa Drenick.

Nisbet will be required to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life, Drenick said.

Nisbet entered guilty pleas to three child molestation counts, three counts of solicitation of murder and one count of possession of child pornography.

He had originally been charged with 75 felony counts alleging he molested three boys between the ages of 12 and 17 between 2009 and 2012.

Nisbet, who had worked at Las Positas Golf Course in Livermore since 2006 and was director of instruction, wrote letters from Santa Rita Jail in Dublin expressing his interest in having two victims "taken care of," investigators said.

A district attorney's inspector, posing undercover as a hit man, then visited Nisbet in jail in a secretly recorded meeting. Nisbet gave the inspector information about the two victims in question, investigators said.