The Providence woman who attacked a coworker at the King's Inn Gentlemen's Club nearly a decade ago and fled the country prior to trial will spend between four and six years behind bars.

Katherine Pimental, 43, of Providence, pleaded guilty to charges including mayhem, armed assault with intent to murder, and failure to appear in Fall River Superior Court, according to the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office. The charges stem from what District Attorney Thomas Quinn called an "unprovoked and brutal assault" on July 27, 2007 at the club on State Road.

According to a press release, Pimental, an employee at the club, attacked another employee in a bathroom stall, striking and slashing the victim with an empty and broken beer bottle while the victim was sitting on a toilet. A bouncer intervened after hearing the victim’s screams, stopping the attack. The victim sustained multiple lacerations and permanent facial scarring as a result of the attack.

After fleeing the scene, she was arrested by Dartmouth police on a warrant on August 6, 2007. Released on $5,000 bail, she attended her court appearances until she fled the country to the Dominican Republic on the eve of her December 3, 2009 trial, according to the press release.

She was returned to the United States in May 2016, a result of years of work by the FBI and Department of Justice to locate and extradite her.

At her sentencing hearing on March 28, the District Attorney’s Office requested a seven-to-nine-year sentence, arguing it was consistent with the sentencing guidelines for her charges, while Pimental asked for a two-and-a-half-year sentence. Superior Court Judge Raffi Yessayan handed down the sentence.