> James Barbour pleaded guilty as part of a plea deal to two misdemeanor
> counts of endangering the welfare of a minor, admitting he fondled the
> student when she visited him alone backstage in his dressing room in
> June 2001, while he was starring on Broadway in "Jane Eyre."
>
> The 41-year-old actor also acknowledged that the teen visited him the
> next month at his Manhattan apartment, where more sexual contact
> occurred. He told Judge Micki Scherer he knew then that she was 15.
>
> Because the charges are misdemeanors, Barbour will not have to
> register as a sex offender.
>
> The actor had faced charges of criminal sex act in the third degree, a
> felony punishable by as many as four years in prison, before the deal.