Mother Who Beat Sex Offender: 'I'd Do It Again'

Was Tammy Gibson protecting her young daughter or just beating up a neighbor, unprovoked? Either way, she will now spend three months behind bars for taking a baseball bat to a sex offender last summer who was talking with her daughter.

Gibson said she has no remorse for the June 19 assault but pleaded no contest Friday to assault charges. She could have received as much as eight months in jail, but the judge sentenced her to three.

"No, I'd do it again if not better," she told Seattle affiliate KOMO-TV. "I don't care if it hurts me, I don't regret it. It got him away from my kids and all the other kids in the neighborhood."According to police documents, Level-3 sex offender William A. Baldwin had moved into his uncle's home in Tacoma in early June. Following his move, county deputies distributed flyers around the neighborhood to alert residents of his presence.