Staff file photo / Ed Runyan Julynn Lespier was sentenced Monday to six months in the Mahoning County jail as her punishment for a May 4 incident in which she caused serious injuries to a woman by running over her leg during an argument in Youngstown.

YOUNGSTOWN — Judge Anthony D’Apolito sentenced Julynn Lespier, of Hubbard, to six months in the Mahoning County jail, three years of probation and ordered her to pay $10,110 in restitution to a woman who suffered serious injuries when Lespier ran over the other woman’s leg during an argument May 4.

Lespier, 29, pleaded guilty Jan. 23 in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court to a reduced charge of aggravated assault. The victim told the judge during Lespier’s plea hearing that 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.

Lespier was indicted on a second-degree felony offense but pleaded guilty to a lower fourth-degree felony in exchange for her plea. The judge said the reason he was OK with Lespier getting no prison time was that the victim was OK with the sentence. The defense and prosecution also agreed with the sentence, the judge said.

Lespier was immediately taken to the Mahoning County jail to serve her sentence after the hearing.

During the plea hearing, Jennifer Paris, assistant county prosecutor, 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.

During the plea hearing, Lespier apologized to the victim and noted that she stayed “and waited with (the victim) 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 intentional 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.”

Lespier 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,” and Lespier agreed that was true.