WAILUKU — A Kahului woman has been taken into custody to serve a one-year jail term for illegally entering another woman’s house and assaulting her.

Cynthia Cameron, 42, also was placed on four years’ probation when she was sentenced June 20.

She had pleaded no contest to third-degree assault and second-degree unauthorized entry into a dwelling.

The crimes occurred Aug. 7, 2017, at a Kahului residence, according to court records.

When she committed the offenses, Cameron was on probation and had been resentenced to a one-year jail term the last time her probation was revoked, said Deputy Prosecutor Mike Kagami. Because of that, he said the prosecution was recommending prison.

Kagami said Cameron wasn’t acting as a “protective mom,” as a supporter wrote in a letter to the court.

“Describing it that way is wrong,” he said.

He said Cameron had someone drive her to the other woman’s house before entering the house and attacking the woman.

Deputy Public Defender Danielle Sears said some family members felt the other woman had a role in an emotional situation that Cameron’s daughter was going through.

“It was about the emotional upheaval that that was causing her family and her daughter,” Sears said.

“It was wrong, absolutely wrong,” Sears added.

Cameron, who previously spent nine days in jail, asked for no additional jail and probation rather than prison.

In sentencing her, 2nd Circuit Judge Peter Cahill said it wasn’t a situation where the defendant was protecting someone.

“Whoever feels that way has created their own history of what happened, and it’s wrong,” he said.

Cahill noted that Cameron has nine prior felony convictions.

In placing her on probation, the judge said it was significant that the probation department didn’t oppose having her placed on probation again.

Cameron was ordered to complete anger management treatment.

According to court records, Cameron’s prior convictions included first-degree unauthorized entry into a motor vehicle, second-degree theft, identity theft, fraudulent use of a credit card and theft of a credit card.