Former family child day care business-owner Laura C. Martin plead guilty on Tuesday, June 19 to charges of assualt and vandalism in .
Judge Wayne Stewart continued sentencing to July 31 so he could consider what type of punishment to impose. Fourth-degree assault and battery and third-degree malicious mischief are both gross misdemeanors in Washington State, each carrying a maximum possible sentence of one year in jail and a $5,000 fine.
Martin, 46, ran out of her home for over a decade and was and then damaged her boyfriend's truck and attacked him with an 8-inch kitchen knife as parents arrived to pick up their children.
