Henry, 45, of 64 Beagle Drive, Middletown, pleaded no contest to the felony assault and battery charge April 3 during a jury trial in which prosecutors presented evidence that she nearly killed her 70-year-old aunt by stuffing a rag soaked with Clorox into her mouth and pouring bleach over her.

The attack was in Goulios's Newport apartment on Dec. 15, 2004.

In court today, Henry pleaded no contest to a charge of embezzling more than $100 from her aunt, a felony for which she received a 10-year suspended sentence to run concurrently with the sentence imposed for the bleach attack.

Prosecutors allege that Henry stole tens of thousands of dollars from Goulios while acting as her guardian. She has already repaid her aunt almost $20,000, but prosecutors are looking for much more in restitution.

The amount of restitution will be determined at a later date by a Superior Court magistrate.

Henry apologized to her aunt for the first time in court today.

"I am very sincerely sorry for all the bad judgment and everything that I have done to hurt my aunt, and I'd like to really apologize to her," she said.

Goulios asked Gale to sentence Henry to the maximum term he could have imposed under a plea agreement with prosecutors last month -- six years imprisonment.

"This was premeditated attempted murder to cover up embezzlement and greed of monumental proportions," the victim told the judge.

Henry became Goulios's guardian in 2002 after she suffered a diabetic coma.

"When I went into a diabetic coma, I had a two-apartment house, a car, clothes, furniture, jewelry and over $123,000 in bonds in the bank, everything I needed. In a year, almost everything was gone. Fifty years of work went down the drain.

"Mrs. Henry from day one conspired behind my back to make me look incompetent in order to control my finances and my life," Goulios said.

- Journal staff writer Tracy Breton