AUBURN - An Auburn woman was indicted Wednesday, accused of slashing another woman with a broken beer bottle last week.

Misty Dawn Romero, 31, of 387 Court St., was indicted by an Androscoggin County grand jury on charges of aggravated assault and elevated aggravated assault. According to court records, she was arrested previously for assaults in Augusta in 1999 and in the Lewiston area in 2000.

She remained jailed Wednesday pending arraignment.

The victim of the Oct. 1 attack was sliced in the face, chest, back and legs when Romero allegedly came at her swinging a broken beer bottle at Court and Granite streets.

Sarah Baril, 28, said she was cut when she tried to break up a fight between Romero and Romero's husband outside their home.

"They were fighting and beating each other up," Baril said a day after the attack. "I tried to stop that, and she came at me. She broke a beer bottle and stabbed me. It was totally out of nowhere."

Police said they found Baril suffering from multiple wounds that required 25 stitches to close. She was treated at St. Mary's Regional Medical Center in Lewiston and released the following day.

Baril said she got to know Romero and her husband after they moved to the neighborhood when fire burned them out of their apartment on Summer Street.

During that fire on Aug. 13, Romero fled her apartment at 85 Summer St. with her 9-month-old child and three other children. Investigators later said the blaze was the result of either a discarded cigarette or a candle left burning.

Baril said she and others in the Court Street neighborhood had helped the Romero family as they got settled into their new home.

According to the indictment, Romero also goes by the names Misty Dawn Thurlow, Misty Dawn Hodge, Misty Dawn Hodge-Thurlow and Misty Pester.