LEBANON — Patricia Dye, the Franklin woman accused of pretending to be a boy to build a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old Springboro girl, was sentenced Wednesday to remain in the Warren County Jail until Dec. 27.

During a hearing Wednesday in Warren County Juvenile Court, Judge Michael Powell urged Dye, 31, to register as a sex offender and continue counseling upon her release.

Powell sentenced Dye to six months in jail. With credit for time served, Powell projected Dec. 27 as Dye’s release date.

She was also sentenced to undergo a mental-health evaluation and counseling while serving two years on probation.

Dye was sentenced after pleading guilty to all three charges filed against her: contributing to the unruliness or delinquency of a child, sexual imposition and attempted sexual imposition of the girl she lured by tricking her and her guardians into believing she was a 14-year-old boy.

Dye’s teen victim and her mother watched the hearing from the jury box and did not speak during the hearing.

“I’m even scared to walk my dog,” the girl said in a statement read by Assistant County Prosecutor Julie Kraft. “I used to trust people. Now I don’t.”

Dye sat with her lawyer, Rob Kaufman.

“She’s a quiet, pensive person,” Kaufman said. “She’s had a long time to think about what she’s done. She is remorseful.”

Kaufman said Dye ran away as a child, but was caring for her “invalid” parents before her arrest. Dye is expected to live with her parents at a Franklin motel after her release.

Others in the audience at the hearing included Dye’s father, Ralph Dye, and Melissa Neumann, the family friend who was looking after the Springboro teen before she ran away with Dye on June 22, her 16th birthday.

The girl was picked up by police with sores on her feet and malnourished on June 24 near Lions Bridge in Franklin.

Through an investigation, police determined, rather than looking for Matthew Abrams, the victim’s 14-year-old boyfriend, they were looking for Dye, who was impersonating a boy. She was arrested June 30.

A Warren County grand jury declined to bring any felony charges against Dye, but approved misdemeanor charges of sexual imposition and attempted sexual imposition, based on alleged sexual contact before the girl’s 16th birthday.

The contributing charge stems from Dye’s alleged role in the girl running away from home.

At the sentencing, Kraft noted the rareness of Dye’s case.

“This doesn’t make sense,” she said, before noting the effects on the victims. “These are scars that aren’t going to heal quickly.”

Powell explained he suspended another 90 days in jail in hopes Dye would feel motivated to seek help.