San Francisco man who stabbed Asian woman, 94, multiple times gets PROBATION after soft-touch judge was told he’d suffered ‘trauma’ and ‘cried’ on being told what he’d done

A San Francisco man who stabbed a 94-year-old man in the street has avoided prison after being sentenced to probation and a ‘behavioral and mental health treatment program.’

Daniel Cauich stabbed Chinese and Vietnamese immigrant Anh ‘Peng’ Taylor multiple times in San Francisco’s Lower Nob Hill neighborhood in broad daylight in June 2021.

The senseless attack was caught on camera and sent shockwaves through the city during a period of increased attacks on Asian Americans.

Cauich was sentenced Friday to five years of probation and a supervision program in San Francisco Superior Court.

“I’m giving you one last chance to stay out of state prison,” Judge Kay Tsenin told Cauich during the hearing, which combined a second burglary charge in a separate incident.

The senseless attack was caught on camera and sent shockwaves through the city during a period of increased attacks on Asian Americans

Cauich has been enrolled in the state’s Intensive Supervision Court program, which is meant for high-risk patients as an alternative to state prison.

As part of the program, he will be under intensive supervision in a restricted-liberty facility until the course is completed.

His defense attorney Lisa DewBerry successfully argued that her client had underlying mental health issues and trauma that contributed to the attack.

“When we were able to get through to him to tell him what he had done, the man was crying,” DewBerry said San Francisco Standard.

“He couldn’t believe he did something like that to her.”

Cauich was run over by a car and homeless at the time of DewBerry’s alleged stabbing.

Court records, including a neuropsychological report, said Cauich had experienced trauma and brain damage, which led to mental health problems and a substance abuse disorder.

Assistant District Attorney Phoebe Maffei opposed the sentence, arguing that Cauich is a danger to the community and should serve 12 years in prison for the stabbing.

Chinese and Vietnamese immigrant Anh ‘Peng’ Taylor was stabbed multiple times in San Francisco’s Lower Nob Hill neighborhood

Taylor’s attacker was sentenced to five years of probation and a supervision program in San Francisco Superior Court

Taylor survived the attack and is doing well at age 97, her family confirmed

‘(The drinking) was senseless and horrific and suggests a quick willingness to harm vulnerable people in our society,’ Maffei wrote in a document protesting the sentence.

Taylor survived the attack and is doing well at age 97, her family confirmed.

“After the attack we moved her to a care home,” her daughter Vivianne Taylor told the Standard.

Adding: ‘She has recovered well and is doing well now.’