Counselor Gets Jail for Sex with Juvenile

(Baltimore, Maryland) In October 2009, a 17-year-old juvenile sex offender escaped from the New Directions treatment program and subsequently spent the night in the home of a female counselor, Tyra M. Greenfield.

The youth was later returned to custody and Greenfield, 26, was arrested for child sexual abuse and harboring a fugitive.

The circumstances of the escape were surprising to police, said Lt. James DeWees, commander of the Golden Ring state police barracks, who investigated the incident.

"Very rarely do you ever think that someone inside a facility like that would go to the lengths that they went to, to assist him in escaping and then harboring and to ultimately be charged with a sex crime at the end of it," DeWees said.

Earlier today (2/17/10), Tyra Greenfield pleaded guilty to engaging in sex with a confined child and was sentenced in accordance with a plea agreement. Circuit Judge Kathleen Cox gave Greenfield one year in the Baltimore County Detention Center and three years probation upon her release.