YOUNGSTOWN — A Hubbard woman pleaded guilty Thursday to a reduced charge of aggravated assault for a May 4 incident in Youngstown in which she ran over the leg of a woman, causing serious injuries.

Prosecutors are recommending that 29-year-old Julynn Lespier get six months in jail and five years of probation.

Aggravated assault is a fourth-degree felony punishable by up to 18 months in prison. Lespier will be sentenced later.

Prosecutors are asking for full restitution to the victim, but additional time will be needed to compile the restitution amount, said Jennifer Paris, assistant county prosecutor.

Paris said the incident involved a car accident and a “verbal altercation between the defendant and the victim. The victim approached the defendant’s car. I believe that verbal altercation escalated. The defendant then grabbed onto the victim’s hair and proceeded to drive away.

“The victim’s leg was run over by the vehicle. It was broken in several places, and surgery was required,” Paris said.

Judge Anthony D’Apolito of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court asked the victim to come near the bench so he could ask her if she was OK with the plea agreement.

“I’m OK with it. I just want more jail time. I don’t think I should be looking at her right now,” the woman said of Lespier, who was standing with her attorney on the other side of the courtroom.

Lespier posted $25,000 bond May 16, the day after her arraignment in Youngstown Municipal Court, according to court records.

Lespier was indicted July 25 on felonious assault, a second-degree felony that carries a possible prison sentence of eight years if convicted. That charge was amended to aggravated assault in her plea agreement.

D’Apolito asked Paris about the six-month jail recommendation and Paris said she believes six months is the maximum time Lespier can get as a term of Lespier’s probation. But if Lespier violates the terms of her probation, she could get additional sanctions. The judge clarified that Lespier could get up to 18 months in prison for violating her probation.

The victim told the judge she went through “an extreme amount of pain … I just went through a lot as far as trying to recover.” She said, “I lost money. I went through eviction. I went through repossession.” She said she is grateful she can “stand on my two feet and be able to go back to work, but at the end of the day I still went through what I went through.”

The victim said she wants Lespier to “face what I went through. I want her to go through the same feelings, emotionally.” She wants Lespier “to realize what she does, what she did. It wasn’t right,” she said.

The judge said through restitution, “I want to get you back what you lost.”

Paris said the victim was headed to the victim-witness division of the prosecutor’s office when she left the courtroom to provide documentation of her employment and how much time she was off work.

Lespier apologized to the victim and noted that she did “stay and waited with her while she was taken away in the ambulance. I went through a lot these past months as well. I just got out of recovery on the 21st. It impacted me drastically as well. So I did worry about her, I did ask my attorney about her well-being,” she said. “It was never intentionally to do that to her. I do have a caring heart and I went through a lot of trauma as well due to the situation.”

She added, “I literally picked her up off the ground and put her in my vehicle.” Lespier said she “wiped her down, tried to put pressure on her leg, not for her to just feel like she was alone at that time.”

The judge said, “The objective part of this is she had a broken leg because of your actions.”

“Absolutely, yes,” Lespier agreed.