Encinitas
A 17-year-old youth pleaded guilty Friday to an assault charge stemming from the brutal, gang-like beating of an Encinitas family outside their home in June.
The teen-ager, a football player who transferred from San Dieguito High School in Encinitas to Grossmont High School in La Mesa earlier this year, faces up to four years in the California Youth Authority when sentenced Jan. 5, Deputy Dist. Atty. John L. Davidson said.
A starting lineman, the young man is among nine current or former students at San Dieguito charged in three assaults involving a gang of teen-agers in North County.
The youth was set to go to trial on Monday.
Davidson said the teen-ager pleaded guilty on Friday before Superior Court Judge Norbert Ehrenfreund in San Diego to “aiding and abetting” in an attack that sent an Encinitas man and his stepson to the hospital.
The fight erupted during a dispute over a rowdy party next to the family’s house in the Leucadia section of Encinitas.
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