Woman who posed as boy back in court

HAMILTON, Ohio - A Tri-State woman who posed as a boy in order to date a teenage girl returned to court on Thursday.

Patricia Dye, 32, was arraigned in a Butler County courtroom for failing to register as a sex offender.

The Middletown woman left the Tri-State following her release from prison last summer. She was arrested in Humboldt County, California on Dec. 8. That is about 90 miles south of the Oregon border and about 300 miles north of San Francisco.

A judge set her bond at $25,000 on Thursday. She had no attorney present so the judge entered a not guilty plea for her.

The court will now appoint her an attorney. Dye remains at the Butler County Jail.

She pleaded guilty last year in Warren County to sexual imposition, attempted sexual imposition and contributing to the delinquency of a child. Dye pretended to be 16-year-old Matt Abrams in order to date a 16-year-old Springboro girl.

Dye was sentenced to six months in prison and released in December 2010 from the Warren County Jail. Dye was ordered to register her address with authorities as a sex offender.

The U.S. Marshals Office in San Francisco said that they received a tip that Dye was living in a motel in Northern California. After an investigation, she was arrested at a motel without incident.