Amber Portwood, star of the MTV reality series, Teen Mom, was sent to jail Monday for violating her probation.
A judge who had issued a warrant for her arrest put her in Madison County Jail in Indiana. She was arrested at a meeting with probation officers.
Portwood’s probation officer reported that she violated the terms of her probation last week. She pled guilty to two counts of felony domestic violence in June. MTV aired scenes of her assaulting her former fiancé, Gary Shirley, who is the father of her child.
Portwood, 21, also failed to obtain her GED, pay probation fees and set up a college fund for her daughter. All of these are terms of her probation.
Her next court date is Jan. 13. She faces two years in jail for the violations and is expected to spend Christmas Day incarcerated.
"Probation officers visited [her] for a random drug test at her house and they found pills in her purse that she did not have a prescription for even although she explained that they had previously been prescribed to her. In addition she missed a court hearing and that is why she was jailed this time around,” her brother, Shawn, said.