A former Ector County Youth Center employee learned her sentence on Tuesday afternoon.

ECTOR COUNTY, TX (KWES) - A former Ector County Youth Center employee learned her sentence on Tuesday afternoon.

Amber Mendoza, 26, was sentenced to two years behind bars for the charge of improper relationship with a person in custody.

She was also sentenced to two years probation for sexual assault of a child.

Mendoza plead guilty to the charges on Monday.

According to the arrest report, she had sex with a 16-year-old inmate while he was on a weekend furlough, last August.

It says Mendoza met up with the teen at his mother's RV in West Odessa, where the two had sex in the kitchen.