A Redwood City woman, two daughters and a friend took plea deals yesterday rather than stand trial for reportedly assaulting a 21-year-old neighbor who they accused of saying something about their mother.
Anabel Aguilar, 25 pleaded no contest to felony assault in return for 60 days jail while her mother, Maria Delcarmen Vasquez, 59, sister Lucia Aguilar Vazquez, 36, and friend Teresita DeJesus Moran-Melchor, 18, accepted misdemeanors. Vasquez pleaded no contest to misdemeanor battery for credit of time served while the others pleaded no contest to misdemeanor assault likely to produce injury. Moran-Melcher received two years court probation and 20 days jail and Vazquez received credit for time served while in custody on $50,000 bail.
The four were arrested after the Oct. 28 incident which prosecutors say started when Aguilar confronted the neighbor in front of a Geneva Avenue apartment complex. Around 12:30 p.m., Aguilar allegedly asked the victim what she said about Vasquez and punched her repeatedly in the face. Prosecutors say the other three joined in the attack with repeated punching and kneeing and Moran-Melchor hit her several times in the forehead with what appeared to be a ring on her finger.
The victim sustained fractures, cuts and bruises but were not as serious as originally thought which played a role in the plea deal, said District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe.
Four years previous, Aguilar was connected to another assault on Geneva Avenue. In the early hours of Aug. 9, 2008, she and another woman had a scuffle at a 7-Eleven in Redwood City and hours later that woman and Ramon Buenrostro, 21, appeared outside Aguilar's apartment. Aguilar and several others, including her 16-year-old boyfriend Adrian Sedano who had escaped from a youth detention camp, confronted them. Sedano was later convicted of second-degree murder for stabbing Buenrostro with a kitchen knife. He received 16 years to life in prison.
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