"An Alameda County mental health counselor is being sought on a charge of being an accessory to attempted murder in the slashing of a 75-year- old woman near the Berkeley Rose Garden last month, authorities said Tuesday.
Hamaseh Kianfar, 30, of San Rafael, is on paid administrative leave from her part-time job at the guidance center at Juvenile Hall in San Leandro. She apparently did not call police to report the March 16 attack allegedly committed by a 16-year-old Oakland girl, authorities said.
The slashing victim and other witnesses told police that the attacker and a female companion had been walking on Euclid Avenue about 6:30 p.m. when the teenager grabbed the victim around the throat and, without saying a word, cut her neck to the bone with what looked like a kitchen knife.
Kianfar had initially told police she had witnessed the knife attack but later gave police a second statement revising that account, prosecutors said. Kianfar did not return a call for comment Tuesday.
The victim of the attack was walking north on Euclid Avenue with her husband, heading home from a film history class at UC Berkeley. She has asked that her name be withheld for her safety.
Her husband said Tuesday that he was gratified that Kianfar was facing a charge in connection with his wife's slashing.
"I have no reason to think that the police are doing anything that they shouldn't," he said. "This lady was there, and she failed to notify the police or control her ward or possible assailant. I assume that she is an accomplice."
The 16-year-old suspect is being held at Juvenile Hall on suspicion of attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon..."
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What's all the fuss? The victim was old and her quality of life was low. She was being done a favor and so was society. Geeze, she's a consumer not a producer. /sarcasm