A former Redmond school district employee accused of having sex with a 16-year-old boy was convicted Thursday on charges of sexual harassment and furnishing alcohol to minors and is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday in Deschutes County Circuit Court.

Amanda Hinshaw, 30, of Redmond, entered an Alford plea Thursday to 12 misdemeanor counts of furnishing alcohol to minors. Under an Alford plea, Hinshaw did not admit guilt but admitted there is enough evidence to convict her. She also pleaded guilty to sexual harassment, a misdemeanor.

Hinshaw entered the pleas after prosecution and defense came to an agreement, said Foster Glass, Hinshaw’s attorney. Hinshaw was originally indicted on a charge of second-degree sex abuse, a felony and a Measure 11 crime. The state agreed to reduce the charges, said Glass.

“The only things … left in that felony indictment (were) the misdemeanors,” said Glass. “As part of the deal, she pleaded guilty to all 12 counts.”

Hinshaw worked as a hall monitor and detention supervisor at Ridgeview High School in Redmond from September to December 2012, according to court records filed by Deputy District Attorney Kandy Gies.

During that time, Hinshaw got to know several students, all of them minors, and provided them with alcohol, according to court records. She provided one student with her military ID so that the student might gain entry into a bar.

During the same time frame, Hinshaw and several students traveled to the Silver Lake area. Hinshaw met a 16-year-old boy there, and they drank alcohol, partied and had sexual intercourse, according to records filed by Gies. Hinshaw allegedly invited the boy and his friends to travel to her Redmond home, where she and the boy drank and had sex. The boy was not a student at Ridgeview.

Hinshaw had pleaded not guilty to the charges of furnishing alcohol to minors earlier this year. The defense filed a motion to change the plea Aug. 14.

In the hearing, the state recommended that Hinshaw serve 14 days in jail, be under supervision for 60 months, seek mental health and sex offender treatment, avoid alcohol, complete 180 hours of community service and must have no unsupervised contact with minors who are not her children or the children of her significant other.

Each count of furnishing alcohol to a minor could have a maximum sentence of one year in jail and up to $6,250 in fines, Judge Roger DeHoog told Hinshaw.

“The problem was she was hanging out with friends a bit younger than herself and drinking too much,” said Glass during the hearing.

Hinshaw, who is pregnant with her third child, wanted to serve the recommended time as soon as possible so that she could care for the expected child, according to Glass.

Hinshaw is due to report to the Deschutes County jail Monday but will not be sentenced until she appears in court by video Tuesday.

Sentencing did not take place Thursday because the defense wanted time to confirm with the Department of Human Services that Hinshaw would be permitted to have unsupervised contact with her children and the children of her significant other. The Department of Human Services evaluated Hinshaw and found that she was not a risk to children, said Glass.

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