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Rosa Hollifield, 60, pleaded guilty to four counts of felony indecent liberties with a child on Monday, Assistant District Attorney Mitch Walker said.

Hollifield was sentenced to spend five to nine years in prison, Walker said. She will be required to be on the sex offender registry for 30 years after she is released from prison. 

The conviction came after Hollifield was charged in April 2023 with statutory sex offenses involving a child who was 15 years old or younger at the time, according to previous News Herald articles.

Search warrants indicated Hollifield, who was fired from a position of fostering children at Southmountain Children and Family Services earlier in 2023, gave a former foster child a cellphone while they were at school and asked them to keep it a secret, a previous article said. 

A social worker asked the child for the phone and found inappropriate sexual acts through text messages and screenshots between the child and Hollifield on the phone, the article said.

The victim, who was not identified, spoke when Hollifield took the plea deal Monday morning, Walker said.

He said the victim told the court about the negative impact Hollifield's actions had on her. She said she hopes Hollifield regrets her actions and said she is glad to have her family supporting her through the case. 

Charges still pending for daughter

Hollifield's daughter, Felicia Hollifield, was also charged with felony indecent liberties with a child in April 2023, a previous News Herald article said. She also worked at Southmountain, but left in hopes of adopting two of the children she had fostered. 

Social workers looked through a cellphone from a child who Felicia Hollifield was hoping to adopt and found text messages that were "inappropriate and sexual in nature" between Felicia and the child, according to a search warrant cited in the article.

The detective also said there was an inappropriate interaction between Felicia and the child on security camera footage from Southmountain, the article said. 

Felicia Hollifield's case was continued in court on Monday, Walker said. Her next court date is set for Aug. 4, according to court records.