ROCKLAND — A Rockland woman convicted of assaulting another woman having an affair with her husband has been spared time behind bars.

Jessica Arsenault was sentenced Wednesday in Knox County Superior Court to a 30-day suspended jail term and given a year of administrative release, which is similar to probation.

The judge called the 30-year-old Arsenault’s assault on the other woman last year an isolated and situational offense that did not require jail time.

Prosecutors asked for jail time because Arsenault had pulled hair from the other woman’s head and bruised her eye during the attack.

The Bangor Daily News reports that Arsenault’s lawyer said the attack was out of character, prompted when she caught her husband and the other woman in bed together.