A 33-year-old Malcolm High School teacher will be attending pretrial diversion instead of facing trial on two misdemeanor counts of sexual assault.

Teacher Jason Cunningham of Lincoln no longer teaches at the school.

Had he been convicted, he faced up to a year behind bars on each count.

Sheriff's deputies say the allegations were made in January, when an 18-year-old girl said Cunningham touched one of her inner thighs in October at the high school.

Another girl reported that Cunningham rubbed one of her inner thighs while they returned from a school event in late August or early September.