DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) One of two Dodge City women accused of attacking a pregnant woman in an effort to kill the unborn child reached a plea deal in the case.
Eighteen-year-old Kaila Vargas pleaded no contest Tuesday to intentional aggravated battery and criminal threat. In exchange for the plea, an attempted murder charge was dropped.
Assistant Ford County Attorney Scott James says Vargas and Mary Gobin attacked the woman, who was seven to eight months pregnant, at her home last June. They allegedly threw her to the ground and punched her stomach several times.
The Dodge City Daily Globe reports the attack apparently happened because the victim’s boyfriend had talked to police about a separate case.
Gobin pleaded no contest to aggravated battery and criminal threat on Feb. 10.
