A Los Angeles Police Department officer pleaded guilty Wednesday to beating a teen relative for getting poor grades and other behavioral problems and faces up to six months in jail.

Daniel Hun Chun, 40, pleaded guilty to a count of misdemeanor battery. Chun, who is scheduled to be sentenced March 5, faces up to six months in jail and a $2,000 fine, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office.

Chun was initially charged in March with a count of child abuse and a count of corporal injury on a child, both felonies, according to prosecutors.

About 4 p.m., March 13, Chun hit the victim repeatedly with a variety of household items on his shoulders, back and backside, leaving welts and bruises on him, according to prosecutors.

Fullerton police were alerted when a school counselor noticed the boy’s wounds, prosecutors said.

Chun was initially facing up to six years in prison if convicted at trial of the felonies.

— City News Service

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