Woman, 31, who pulled a man's shirt off him during a brawl at children's birthday party is given a 12-month suspended sentence

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A woman arrested over a wild brawl at a children's party centre at Wetherill Park in Sydney's south-west in June has been given a 12-month suspended sentence.

Marleen Isaac, 31, pleaded guilty to affray, admitting that she had jumped into the melee and pulled a man's shirt off him.

She was one of seven from the same extended family to be charged over the fight and was handed a 12-month suspended jail term on Wednesday.

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Marleen Isaac, 31, has been handed a suspended 12-month sentence for her part in a wild brawl at a children's party centre in Sydney's south-western suburb of Wetherill Park in June

Shocking footage shows the moment a children's party centre descended into a violent brawl between parents

The video shows a shirtless man picked up from behind and slammed to the ground in the June 20 brawl

The violent brawl at the children's birthday party centre was so serious that those responsible must be sentenced to full-time custody, a magistrate has declared.

But the seven adults charged over the all-in brawl, which was sparked by a grown man's alleged assault on a seven-year-old girl at Lollipops Playland in Wetherill Park may never see the inside of a jail cell.

Fairfield Local Court Magistrate Vivien Swain said on Wednesday the melee began in June after one man, Isaac David Isaac, grabbed a girl who had accidentally bumped into another child.

'This all started, it seems, because Mr Isaac Isaac had a disproportionate protective instinct towards (one) child,' Ms Swain said.

The court heard Isaac told the little girl 'play nice' and the frightened child burst into tears and ran to her father.

The father asked for an explanation before telling one of Isaac's associates: 'Don't touch me, I don't want to fight.'

At that, the violence erupted.

Within moments, members of the Isaac family allegedly began fighting members of the little girl's family, who were celebrating a four-year-old's birthday.

Ms Swain reeled off a list of the defendants' crimes on Wednesday morning, describing how Isaac family patriarch Aduard Aushana, also known as Edward Isaac, repeatedly targeted a grandfather who was not involved in the fighting at all.

A group of men then surround a man on the ground and punch and kick at him. Seven people were arrested after the fight including one woman

A number of people attempted to break up the fight before the man could be dragged away

The fight was caught on camera by an onlooker as adults from two different parties brawled

The fight was so serious, according the magistrate, that those responsible must be sentenced to full-time custody. Six men involved will return to court next year

A man was seen to be punched in the head as he picked up a bag from a table

Silver-haired Aushana, a 61-year-old who relies on a disability pension, nodded in court as an interpreter relayed the magistrate's comments.

Court documents describe how Aushana 'slammed' a plastic chair down on the other man's head, and how later he hurled another chair at the man as he sat across the room tending his injuries.

Ms Swain also told how two other men, Najeeb Georges and Riyadh Ishak, threw another victim to the ground and repeatedly kicked him where he lay.

CCTV cameras and mobile phone footage captured scenes of children at the indoor play centre crying as they were led to safety, police said.

'Adults are seen to be ushering children out of harm's way,' the police fact sheet states.

Ms Swain rejected suggestions from counsel that Aushana, Isaac David Isaac, Georges, Ishak and two other defendants, Haitham Isaac and Jack Isaac, could serve suspended sentences for their offences of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

'In my view, it would not denounce the conduct sufficiently and would not punish each of the offenders sufficiently, with the exception of Marleen Isaac,' Ms Swain said.

The remaining six defendants have had their case adjourned so they can be assessed as candidates for intensive correction orders, which are custodial sentences served in the community under the supervision of Corrective Services NSW.

Such orders may include home detention or mandatory community service.

The case returns to court next year.

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