A former Southern Baptist official who was accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl in Arlington in the 1990s has been sentenced to probation after pleading guilty Tuesday to a misdemeanor assault charge.

Mark Edwin Aderholt (Tarrant County Sheriff's Department)

As part of his plea deal, 47-year-old Mark Edwin Aderholt of Columbia, S.C., was sentenced to two years of deferred-adjudication probation. He also must serve 30 days in jail, starting Tuesday night, and pay a $4,000 fine, court records show.

He had originally been charged with one count of sexual assault of a child younger than 17.

Anne Marie Miller said she met Aderholt online in 1996, when she was 16 and he was a 25-year-old student at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth.

The Dallas Morning News does not typically name accusers in cases of sex crimes, but Miller spoke to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram last summer about the case.

Miller said she and Aderholt eventually began a sexual relationship that lasted until spring 1997, when she remembered him telling her that he had gotten engaged.

Aderholt worked as a missionary after seminary, and he later became the associate executive director and chief strategist for the South Carolina Baptist Convention.

He resigned from that role in June 2018, several weeks before his arrest in the Tarrant County case.

In an impact statement Tuesday, Miller told Aderholt that "what she really wanted was to hear him say that he was guilty," Samantha Jordan, spokeswoman for the Tarrant County district attorney's office, told the Star-Telegram.