Ex-counselor sentenced for sexual assault

GROVE CITY, Pa. (AP) -- A former counselor at a school for troubled boys will serve prison time for having a sexual relationship with a charge, whom she also helped escape.
Amy Anderson, 33, of Liberty Township, was sentenced Thursday to 13 months to three years for her January guilty pleas to institutional sexual assault, facilitating an escape and other charges.
Anderson admitted having had sex with the 16-year-old for a five-month period in 2002, when she took him away from George Junior Republic, a private residential school and treatment center, in Grove City. The boy then lived with her for about two months, authorities said.
Anderson and the boy blamed each other for the relationship at Thursday's hearing.
Anderson also helped another boy escape from the school and drove that teenager to West Virginia, authorities said.