A former Sharpsville woman who assaulted a male teacher after the teacher caught the woman's daughter passing notes in class was sentenced to up to two years in jail for the in-school attack.

Victoria Morrison, 33, of 1027 Ridge Ave., was sentenced Thursday by Mercer County Common Pleas President Judge Francis J. Fornelli on charges of aggravated and simple assault and disorderly conduct.

She faces between six months and two years, less one day in Mercer County Jail.

Ms. Morrison has indicated she plans to appeal and was being held Monday in Mercer County Jail on a $10,000 commercial bond pending that appeal, said Mercer County District Attorney James P. Epstein.

A jury found Ms. Morrison guilty in January of hitting her daughter's teacher, Lewis Rosa, numerous times in the chest and neck on Feb. 23, 2001, as the two stood in the doorway of his Sharpsville Middle School classroom.

Rosa, who has since retired, was treated after the assault at Sharon Regional Health System; he said his chest was sensitive due to open-heart surgery he had had the year before.

Ms. Morrison went to the school that day because her daughter called to be taken home. Rosa had reminded the sixth-grade student about a policy against passing notes in class after he discovered she had passed one with derogatory comments about him.

Rosa, two school administrators and 22 students testified that Ms. Morrison hit the teacher. She said on the stand that she never touched Rosa.