A former coach and convicted sex offender who recently was arrested for allegedly being at a facility where minors are present also is facing a series of probation violations as a result.

Seven felony probation-violation counts have been filed against Kemp Douglas Phillips, 40, of 230 Laurel Lane, Mount Airy, according to court records.

Phillips spent more than four years in prison after being convicted on multiple counts of taking indecent liberties with students and sex offenses involving female students while he was a coach and teacher at Mount Airy High School. In addition to the time served, Phillips was placed on probation for 48 months, which requires him to be under the regular supervision of a probation officer and meet other conditions.

When the ex-coach was charged on June 16 with allegedly violating a law prohibiting sex offenders from being on premises where minors are regularly present, it subjected Phillips to a possible probation violation that could land him back behind bars.

The seven probation-violation charges are “a result of that offense,” local probation official Brian Gates, judicial district manager for the state’s District 17-B, explained Wednesday.

Gates said such violations are routinely filed in such cases, while also pointing out that only a pending charge is involved at this point and not a conviction. “But any pending charge can result in a violation of probation,” he said.

“Obviously, these are still allegations and we’re treating them as such,” the probation official added. “They are still pending charges.”

The seven counts relate to the original charges in which Phillips received probationary sentences. He was released from prison in January 2008.

Phillips is scheduled to appear in Surry District Court on July 14 on the sex-offender charge, issued by the Mount Airy Police Department after the former coach was seen at Pro Health, a fitness and health business on North Pointe Boulevard in Mount Airy. The center contains nursery child care, after-school child care and other programs that minors attend, police have said.

Some community residents have defended Phillips’ presence at the facility, saying that he simply worked out there in the mornings and did not come into contact with children. Police, however, have said they are compelled to press charges in such cases in order to err on the side of caution in protecting potential victims and avoiding possible liability issues.

“If convicted, the offense would result in a (probation) violation,” Gates said. But even a conviction would not necessarily send Phillips back to prison to complete the probationary portion of his sentence, he said.

“The judge would make the final determination,” Gates said of where the matter would proceed from there.

While the charge related to Pro Health is scheduled to be heard this month in District Court, the probation violations will be addressed in Superior Court, since that’s where Phillips was tried in 2003 for the earlier cases.