Tammy Lee Gibson says she has only one regret about attacking her neighbor with a baseball bat.
She says she wishes she had done more damage.
Gibson, 40, said she attacked William Baldwin on June 16 after receiving a notification from the Pierce County Sheriff's Department that the convicted child molester had moved to a neighboring trailer park. She said she immediately recognized Baldwin, 24, as an acquaintance who had talked to her 10-year-old daughter last summer. She knocked on his door, threatened to kill him and attacked him with a bat.
She said she found Baldwin behind his trailer and asked if she could talk to him. Court paperwork said Gibson accused Baldwin of molesting her children, but Gibson denies she said that.
"I said, 'You know why I'm here ... ' " she said. " 'You were at my house, talking to my kid.' I told him how I felt and that I'd straight kill him."
She said she swung at him with the bat, catching him below the jaw. Gibson said the 7-foot-3 man tried to stop her by grabbing the bat, but she kept swinging. Gibson, who is 5-foot-11, said she didn't realize how big Baldwin was until after she had hit him seven or eight times.
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