HAMILTON — A West Chester Township woman has been sentenced to six months in jail for failing to protect her two children and her teen sister from her boyfriend, who now faces 27 charges in two counties.

        The 22-year-old woman will spend another three months in the Butler County Jail, where she has already been locked up for 100 days.

        She was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in jail but had a year suspended. She had pleaded guilty to two counts of child endangering and a count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The offenses were misdemeanors involving her daughters, ages 8 and 5, and her teen-age sister.

        The daughters were victims of physical abuse, officials said, and the sister bore a baby fathered by the jailed woman's boyfriend.

        The Enquirer is not identifying the woman to protect the identity of her sister because of the nature of the charges.

        The woman's boyfriend, Kirk D. Waters, 30, is locked up awaiting court action in two counties.

        In Clermont County, he was indicted on 10 counts of rape and 10 counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. The case is set for trial Aug. 12.

        In Butler County, he faces a July 1 trial on three counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, two counts of sexual battery and two counts of interference with custody.

        All the charges stem from his alleged conduct with the woman's teen sister except one count of interference with custody, which involves the teen's baby, authorities said. Earlier this year, Mr. Waters and the woman helped the teen and her baby flee to Kentucky from a Butler County foster home, officials allege.

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