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Woman Beats 7'3" Sex Offender With Baseball Bat

By Corey Rayburnyung

A Washington woman pled guilty to assaulting a 7' 3" sex offender with an aluminum bat.  From Seattle Post-Intelligencer:The Pierce County woman who used an aluminum baseball bat to attack a 7-foot-3 sex offender living in her trailer park has pleaded guilty to third-degree assault, according to The Associated Press.After the June attack, she told television crews the man had been trying to talk to her young daughter and that she'd beat him again. The man, William Baldwin, pleaded guilty on charges he failed to register as a sex offender. Both lived in part of unincorporated Puyallup. After Gibson was jailed, she became an Internet celebrity and people started a "Free Tammy" movement, attempting to raise her $15,000 bail. Baldwin, who was 24 during the beating, is a Level 3 sex offender and considered a high risk to reoffend...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on January 06, 2009 (boomark / email).