Story highlights Grandmother in drug controversial photo pleads no contest

Ohio city released photos of her and driver passed out in car front seat with boy in back

(CNN) A woman in graphic photos showing her passed out in a car with her young grandson after she allegedly overdosed on heroin has been ordered to serve the next half-year in an Ohio jail.

Rhonda Pasek was sentenced Thursday to 180 days in jail and ordered to pay $280 in fines after pleading no contest in an East Liverpool court to endangering a child and disorderly conduct and public intoxication.

The plea and sentence came just eight days after she and the driver were arrested in East Liverpool, a city of about 11,000 people along the Ohio River near the state lines of West Virginia and Pennsylvania.

4-year-old grandson was seated in the back, looking out the window. The photos, distributed by city officials, showed Pasek sitting in the passenger seat slumped next to the unconscious driver on September 7. Her4-year-old grandson was seated in the back, looking out the window.

Pasek had pleaded not guilty last week, but the plea changed during a pretrial hearing Thursday in East Liverpool Municipal Court.

Read More