Deputy pleads guilty to sex with inmate

STERLING (AP) - A former sheriff's deputy faces up to 60 days in jail after she plead guilty to having sexual contact with an inmate.

Detention deputy Lori Strohmeyer entered the plea in Logan County this week. The 28-year-old was fired in January after taped phone conversations with the inmate surfaced. Their relationship is alleged to have happened in the fall of 2007.

Strohmeyer will have to register as a sex offender. She will be sentenced Sept. 9.

The inmate, now serving his sentence in a community corrections program, asked a judge Tuesday to lift a restraining order and allow him to see the former deputy.