Elizabeth T. Kelly will be a free woman Nov. 26 or earlier after serving  11  months  in  prison  on a no-contest plea to child sexual abuse charges, the  Parole Commission said Wednesday.

Kelly,  39,  entered  the  prison  system  in  January after pleading no contest  to  26 counts of taking indecent liberties with children at Little Rascals Day Care Center and three other sex abuse counts. She was sentenced to seven years in prison. 
Kelly  and  her  husband, Robert F. Kelly Jr., owned and operated Little Rascals Day Care Center.

Robert  Kelly  was  convicted  on  99  counts  of child sexual abuse and sentenced  to  12  consecutive  terms. Former day-care cook Dawn Wilson was sentenced to  life in prison. The convictions of both are being appealed.

Another  defendant,  Willard  Scott  Privott,  an acquaintance of Robert Kelly's,  pleaded no contest to sexual abuse charges in June and was placed on probation.

There  still are four defendants awaiting trial in the case, which began when Kelly was charged in 1989. His trial, the first in the case, began in August 1991 and ended in May 1992.

Elizabeth  Kelly  was  eligible for release when she entered prison, and her attorney,  Joe  Cheshire, argued that she shouldn't be incarcerated at all. But she was taken to prison after Superior Court Judge Marsh McLelland sentenced her to seven years.

The  Parole  Commission  denied  her  release  after  hearings in April. Supporters  argued  for early release and opponents argued that she stay in prison. At that time, she became eligible for the November release date.

``It  is  important  for the public to understand that the commission no longer  has  authority  to  keep  Mrs. Kelly incarcerated,' said commission Chairman Juanita Baker.

The  state's Fair Sentencing Act, the law under which she was sentenced, requires  that  people  serving  felony  sentences longer than 18 months be released  90  days  from their sentence expiration, said Tracy Herring, the commission spokeswoman. Elizabeth Kelly's sentence expires Feb. 24, 1995.

Other  factors contributing to the release date are good time, gain time and merit  time. Automatic good-time credit cut the seven-year sentence in half and gain-time credit was given for working in the prison. 
Kelly also received credit for the more than two years she spent in jail before she raised bond money.