Woman pleads guilty to hitting sex offender

Woman pleads guilty to hitting sex offender

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By Associated Press

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A woman who struck a 7-foot-3 convicted child molester with a baseball bat has pleaded guilty to third-degree assault.

Pierce County Deputy Prosecutor Sunni Ko says Tammy Lee Gibson of Puyallup entered her plea Monday. The woman was originally charged with second-degree assault and felony harassment.

Gibson will be sentenced on Feb. 27. Ko says the woman could face three to eight months in jail.

The 40-year-old Gibson says she attacked 24-year-old William Baldwin last June after hearing from the Pierce County sheriff's office that a registered sex offender had moved into a nearby trailer park.

Gibson says she remembered seeing Baldwin speak to her 10-year-old daughter a year earlier and went to his home, threatening to kill him. She then hit him several times with an aluminum bat.

Baldwin had earlier been convicted of two counts of first-degree child molestation for sexually assaulting two girls when he was a teenager.

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