Housemother gets 3 years for sex with teen

MASON, Ohio, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- An Ohio woman impregnated by a teenager at a halfway house must begin serving a three-year prison term once she has her baby.

Carolynn "Carrie" Hatcher, who is due to deliver in late January, was ordered to surrender Feb. 10 to begin serving her sentence, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.

"The child is certainly innocent and has nothing to do with what is going on here," Judge James Flannery told her during a hearing Wednesday in Warren County Common Pleas Court.

Hatcher, who is married, was a housemother and teacher at the Mid-Western Children's Home, where the father of her child was a resident. The boy, then 16, had been placed at the home because he was being physically and sexually abused at home.

Another teen reported the sexual activity in July. Hatcher pleaded guilty in September to three counts of sexual battery.

"Instead of being a trusted adult, she took advantage of him in the worst way at a time when he was extremely vulnerable," Warren County Prosecutor Rachel Hutzel said. "She used the victim for her own gratification, and she is now blaming other people."