AUBURN – A former substitute teacher at Leavitt Area High School in Turner pleaded not guilty Thursday to several counts of sexually assaulting a student.

Seth Philip Prideaux, 22, of Lewiston told a judge in Androscoggin County Superior Court that he wasn’t guilty of three counts of gross sexual assault and one count of furnishing liquor to a minor. Each felony is punishable by up to five years in prison. He faces up to 364 days in jail on the misdemeanor furnishing charge.

He remained free on $1,500 cash bail.

Justice Thomas Warren ordered Prideaux to have no contact with anyone under the age of 18.

Prideaux must submit to random searches by police for alcohol and illegal drugs.

Warren ordered Prideaux not to leave Maine; he had surrendered his passport to police.

The charges against Prideaux stem from his alleged assault of a female student at the high school, according to court records.

Prideaux taught French as a long-term substitute teacher at SAD 52, which includes Greene, Leeds and Turner. School officials said Prideaux’s name had since been removed from the school’s substitute teacher list.

Police responded to his home on a Sunday in late January to find the girl’s parents yelling in his driveway. Her father told police his daughter had just admitted having sex with Prideaux. Prideaux told police in an interview and in a written statement that he had sex with the girl three times during the previous two days, court records said.

Although the two had known each other for years, they hadn’t had sex before, he told police, court records said.