YOUNGSTOWN — Atalaya Amatul-Nafi, 44, pleaded guilty to felonious assault and felony strangulation Tuesday and received a joint recommendation of 3 to 4 1/2 years in prison for stabbing a man March 8 at a home in the city with a broken broomstick, resulting in the victim losing his left eye.

Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge R. Scott Krichbaum will sentence Amatul-Nafi at 8:30 a.m. Sept. 16 to give the victim the opportunity to attend the hearing and speak if he wishes. Amatul-Nafi will remain in the Mahoning County jail until the hearing.

A Youngstown police report states that officers were called to a location that was blacked out on a police report under the provisions of Marsy’s Law, which protects victims of crime.

An officer spoke with a man described as the “complainant,” who said the victim had gone to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital after the attack and then was transferred to a hospital in the Cleveland area.

The man also pulled out his cellphone and showed the officer a photo of the victim in the hospital with a heavily bandaged left eye and that the victim had been there two days.

The victim was called on the phone. He said the incident happened between 7 and 8 p.m. while he was at his home when Amatul-Nafi arrived and spoke with his neighbor. She came into the house angry and “began questioning him about something the neighbor allegedly said. It is unknown who the neighbor is or what was said.”

The victim said he was upstairs when Amatul-Nafi “began to argue, and she then took an extension cord and tried to strangle him with it,” the report states.

He said Amatul-Nafi then said she wanted to “go back home to Buffalo and that she wanted $175 to go home. She went downstairs.” The report states that the victim realized his wallet was downstairs so he went to get it to prevent Amatul-Nafi from getting it. He got it and then was sitting in his living room when Amatul-Nafi held a broken broomstick and “attacked him by stabbing him in his eye.”

He said he “begged her to call paramedics.” He was taken to the hospital and then was transferred to Cleveland.

The report noted that the victim told the officer that Amatul-Nafi did not live there and that she is “not his girlfriend.” However, the “call history” associated with the victim contained a 911 call Jan. 18, 2025, in which the victim said his “girlfriend was disrespected at Danny G’s,” a Youngstown store. The description of the woman that the officer received the day he took the report on the attack matched the description of the woman he observed at the victim’s home on Jan. 18, 2025, the report states.

The report adds that on March 25, 2025, Amatul-Nafi was arrested on a warrant issued through Youngstown Municipal Court for felonious assault and strangulation.

Amatul-Nafi was arrested at a location in Buffalo by U.S. Marshals and taken to a “holding facility” in Buffalo. On April 4, 2025, she was transported by U.S. Marshals to the Mahoning County jail.

She was indicted on the felonious assault and strangulation June 12. She was scheduled for trial Monday morning, but she entered the plea instead.