KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Two women and a man who staged an assault last fall learned their fates on Friday for planning a carrying out what a federal judge called a "harebrained" scheme.

Julie Benet, one of the women who planned the assault on herself and a friend, left the federal courthouse after learning that she will spend the next five months in a re-entry center and five months of home confinement.

In court, Bernet explained she and her friend filed a sexual harassment suit against their employer, Aristocrat Motors, and in order to get a quick settlement they paid a friend -- Gordon Reabe -- to attack them at the friend's home in Waldo to make it seem as if their employer had sent someone after them.

Reabe beat up Bernet and sexually assaulted her friend in the garage.

But the scheme quickly unraveled and federal officials charged them with conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

Bernet apologized in court on Friday and said, "The sexual harassment is at the root of what happened. I didn't even consider our actions would frighten the community."

"It's clear, for the record, she has accepted responsibility," Bernet's attorney J.R. Hobbs said. "She regrets her conduct and there's nothing really more to add."

Reabe was sentenced to one year in prison, while the other woman is on probation with six months house arrest. All three will also have to pay more than $5,000 each to the Kansas City Police Department to cover the cost of investigating the incident.