MOULTRIE — A former middle school teacher and football coach who was accused of sending electronic messages that contained sexual content to a teen-age girl was sentenced Tuesday to seven years’ probation.

Stephen Parks Warnock, 34, of Norman Park also was ordered to undergo sexual offender evaluation and treatment and is prohibited from having contact with children under 18 other than his own children, possessing photos or electronic images of children, or possessing sexually oriented material.

He also was ordered to pay a $3,500 fine and perform 200 hours of community service work.

Warnock, a teacher for six years at Willie J. Williams Middle School, was a math teacher and also coached football and wrestling. He voluntarily gave up his teaching certificate, court documents said.

He pleaded guilty to criminal attempt to commit the crime of enticing a child for indecent purposes.

He was accused of sending the inappropriate messages of a sexual nature to a 14-year-old girl.

The messages reportedly were intercepted by the girl’s mother, who turned them over to the Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office.