[Orange County register]- A former athletic trainer at Tustin High School is due in court Wednesday, accused of having a sexual relationship with an athlete at the school for about a year.

Hope Ashley Jacoby, 23, of San Juan Capistrano, is charged with four felony counts of unlawful sexual intercourse, three other felony sex counts, and one felony count of distributing pornography to a minor, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office.

Jacoby, who is out of custody on $100,000 bail, is due to be arraigned Wednesday at 9 a.m. at the Harbor Justice Center in Newport Beach, prosecutors said.

Jacoby is accused of having a sexual relationship with a male student between Jan. 1, 2008, and Dec. 19, 2008, when the victim was 16 and 17 years old. She is accused of having sex with the student several times in her car and at her home, prosecutors said.

School officials became aware of the alleged relationship in December after finding images on the student’s phone that they say were sent by the Jacoby, an Orange County Sheriff’s Department spokesman said last month.

Jacoby was employed with ACIC Physical Therapy, an Orange County company that the Tustin Unified School District contracted, a school district spokesman said last month.

Before she was hired in September 2007, Jacoby was submitted to fingerprinting and a background check like other district employees, which she passed, the district spokesman said.

In late November, Jacoby submitted a letter of resignation to the district, stating that she intended to further her education, the spokesman said.