WARREN – A Warren woman on Tuesday was given a suspended 60-day jail sentence to begin her five-year probation for a felony assault conviction linked to the striking of a McGuffey PK-8 school principal last fall.

Julie Crenshaw, 28, 998 Riverview, pleaded guilty June 14 to the fifth-degree felony that carried a potential one-year sentence. Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge Andrew D. Logan said the charges “are serious whenever someone barges into a school and assaults a school official.”

“I should have considered prison, but you are going to have to pay some penalty because of the seriousness of the offense,” Logan told Crenshaw before pronouncing a sentence of probation that includes Crenshaw being barred from school property.

Crenshaw apologized for the incident, and with the help of her attorney, Gary Rich, she told the judge she has attended counseling and anger management classes. Logan told her these steps will be continuing during her probation.

The incident that led to the felony charges took place at the end of the school day on Oct. 30, 2015, at the McGuffey building.

Warren City Schools Superintendent Steve Chiaro said the principal, Treva Pytlik, was talking with the parent of a primary student about her “consistently violating” school visiting procedures by repeatedly failing to sign in at the office when coming to the school.

When the principal told the woman it would not be tolerated, the police report states Pytlik ,who is principal for grades K-2, was struck by the woman.

Chiaro said the school district conducted its own investigation and then turned the information over to the school resource officer to file charges.

On July 14, Crenshaw received probation from Warren Municipal Judge Terry Ivanchak after pleading no contest to an endangering children and theft charges in a case not related to the school assault. Court records show Crenshaw had served 60 days in the Warren Alternative Sentencing Program in that case.

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