Sydney Palmer, 30, a former softball team coach from Bucks County, pleaded no contest on Tuesday to a misdemeanor charge of indecent assault in connection with incidents that occurred in Abington Township between August 2020 and February 2023 with a girl on the team who was between 14- and 16-years-old, Mainline Media News reported.

Palmer, who is the daughter of a police detective, was a volunteer coach with the Bucks County Militia softball team.

She will be sentenced to one year of probation under sex offender supervision and will undergo an evaluation to determine is she meets the criteria to be classified as a sexually violent predator, Mainline Media said. She also faces a 15-year requirement to report her address to state police in order to comply with the state’s Sexual Offender Registration and Notification Act, previously known as Megan’s Law.

The investigation began in February 2023 when Abington police received a ChildLine report regarding an inappropriate relationship between a 16-year-old girl and her travel softball team coach named “Syd.” According to the report, Palmer and the girl “had been on and off dating for the last two years”.

The victim’s parents confronted Palmer during that time, though she denied anything inappropriate had occurred. Investigators found the girl’s cellphone had “a large amount of video calls” with Palmer and a photo of them kissing, and a review of Palmer’s Instagram account revealed messages between Palmer and the girl, including messages in which the girl informed Palmer that her mother found messages between them on her phone in October 2021.

The victim is now 18, Mainline Media said.

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