MERCER COUNTY Woman sentenced in assault last May

The judge put two other people on probation.
MERCER -- A judge placed a Farrell woman on probation and gave her time in the Intermediate Punishment Program for an assault on another woman last May which knocked the victim's child unconscious.
Judge Michael Wherry of Mercer County Common Pleas Court placed Natasha Horton, 28, of Spearman Avenue, on a one-year probation Thursday and ordered her to be placed in the Intermediate Punishment Program for 15 days.
Court documents say that May 6, Horton went to the home of Tinika Carter on Mesabi Street in Sharon and tried to get her to fight. Carter refused because there were children close by, including Carter's 15-month-old daughter.
Horton, however, began punching Carter and during the altercation, the child was pushed into a door. The blow to the head knocked the child unconscious and she was hospitalized for a concussion. Horton also struck Carter in the face, causing swelling and bruising.
Horton pleaded guilty last month to simple assault and defiant trespass.
Others sentences
Several other people also were sentenced:
UTorrance Smith, 31, of Wallis Avenue, Farrell, was sentenced to six months to two years in jail for simple assault. Court documents say that Jan. 25, Smith choked a woman, threatened to kill her and dragged her across a floor, scratching her neck and causing swelling above her eye. He was given credit for six months already served in jail.
UDemeco Jackson, no age given, of Wallis Avenue, Farrell, was placed on five years' probation for misdemeanor forgery. He forged a check for $646 and tried to cash it at a Hermitage bank.
UShenetta Jones, 26, of Erie, was placed on four years' probation for retail theft and conspiracy-retail theft for helping a female juvenile shoplift $948 worth of clothing from various stores at the Grove City Factory Stores in Springfield Township in October 2001.