GOLDEN, Colo.-
A former counselor at a juvenile detention center here was ordered to serve three years in prison for sexually assaulting a child, authorities said.
Heather Rose Robbins, 30, learned her sentence Monday in a Jefferson County courtroom. She had pleaded guilty Jan. 29 to sexual assault on a child and unlawful sex in a penal institution, both felonies.
District attorney’s spokeswoman Pam Russell said Robbins was a counselor at Lookout Mountain Youth Services Center where the male victim, 16, was serving a juvenile sentence. The boy reported having five or six sexual enounters with Robbins between May 2004 and August 2005.
The victim also said he and Robbins communicated in letters and by telephone on her days off from the center.
Robbins’ prison sentence was to be followed by 10 years to life on intensive supervised probation, Russell said.
