LEBANON - A Waynesville mother of two pleaded guilty on Friday to charges that she had sex with eight adolescent boys in her neighborhood beginning last June.

        A grand jury had been scheduled to hear evidence against Hannah Furnas, 24, who appeared before a Warren County judge and admitted that she had oral sex with two boys, coerced others to touch her inappropriately, solicited a 14-year-old for sex and showed an illicit video to a teen during a Super Bowl party in January.

        With four relatives and the father of her young children looking on from the courtroom gallery, Ms. Furnas pleaded guilty to six counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, as well as to other charges, including single counts each of gross sexual imposition and disseminating matter harmful to a juvenile.

        All of the charges are felonies and involve boys ages 12 to 14.

        Prosecutors were prepared to seek more charges against Ms. Furnas if the case had gone before the grand jury.

        “The charges she pleaded to were the most serious offenses for each victim that we could have gotten through an indictment or trial,” Assistant Prosecutor Keith Anderson said.

        Ms. Furnas faces up to 33 years in prison when she returns to Warren County Common Pleas Court for sentencing in about a month.

        Judge P. Daniel Fedders said a prison term is not mandatory.

        Ms. Furnas also could be classified as a sexual predator, which would require her to register her address with police for life.

        Jim Dearie, an attorney who represented Ms. Furnas at Friday's hearing, declined to comment on whether contentions that Ms. Furnas was mentally ill would make a difference in her sentence.

        Police Chief Allen Carter said the plea covers eight of nine victims questioned in an investigation following Ms. Furnas' arrest April 7, when she was found in Quaker Cemetery with three 13-year-old boys.

        Ms. Furnas was accused of having oral sex with one of the boys, said Officer Ryan Stanaford, who arrested her.

        There was not enough evidence to charge Ms. Furnas in connection with the ninth victim, authorities said.

        Ms. Furnas met with a probation officer after the hearing.

        Her relatives refused to discuss the case.

        Judge Fedders allowed Ms. Furnas to remain free on her promise to return for sentencing, but ordered her to stay out of Waynesville and away from juveniles, and to live with her mother on Black Forest Road in West Carrollton, outside Dayton, Ohio.

        Chief Carter said he will ask Judge Fedders to notify police in West Carrollton of the order barring Ms. Furnas from contact with juveniles.

        Ms. Furnas is permitted to have supervised visitation with her children - a 4-year-old boy and 15-month-old girl - who live with their father.

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