A Chesapeake woman indicted in connection with the abuse of her 4-year-old son will spend the next four years behind bars.

Lawrence County Common Pleas Judge Richard Walton sentenced Diana Miller, 21, of 204 Rockwood Ave., to four years in prison on each of two counts of endangering children and six months in jail on the single misdemeanor count of falsification. Walton ordered that the sentences run concurrently.

Miller and a friend, Thomas Overby, 32, who lived in her house, were arrested in August after medical personnel alerted local authorities to the child abuse.

Overby was convicted last month for his part in the abuse and will spend seven years in prison.

Also this week, a South Point woman who was arrested last year in an identity theft scheme entered a guilty plea in connection with the case.

Tina Adams, 29, of 1173 County Road 1, pleaded guilty to an amended charge of

third-degree felony attempt to engage in a pattern of corrupt behavior. Other charges for which she was indicted, as well as charges pending in municipal court, were dropped.

Lawrence County Common Pleas Judge Frank McCown sentenced Adams to two years in prison, with the possibility of serving the last six months of her sentence in a community-based correctional facility, if she is eligible for the CBCF program at that time.

Adams was also ordered to pay restitution to all victims, in an amount to be determined later. Adams was given credit for time served.

She was initially arrested in July when Lawrence County Sheriff's deputies were alerted to a scam involving four area residents and their bank accounts. Adams was accused of obtaining the vital information from other people, then using that information to open bank accounts.

Adams is accused of then depositing money into accounts

using stolen checks and making immediate withdrawals for cash on those accounts. Sexton said the withdrawals were made before bank officials knew the deposits were fraudulent.

She was arrested again last month at the Wal-Mart store in Burlington and accused of trying to steal more than $500 in bras, thongs and beauty aids.