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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, of the same kind with each person who had talked to her 10-year-old daughter last summer. She knocked on his door, threatened to slaughter him and attacked him with a bat.

The have at landed both in jail: Gibson for second-degree assault and gross offence harassment and Baldwin for failing to record as a sex offender.

While police and prosecutors have condemned Gibson’s actions, the engage has made her a hero among bloggers and commentators forward Internet message the stage. When the attack made the news, many in the blogosphere lauded her for protecting her daughter.

But authorities don’t see it that way.

Sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer said that despite Baldwin’s iniquitous record, “we can’t have people randomly caning up registered sex offenders.”

“She is not a soccer mom who is upset with a sex offender. This matron is not the poster babe for this,” Troyer wrote in an e-mail, referring to Gibson’s record of an arrest for drug possession and a traffic infraction.

But Gibson declared she doesn’t regret her actions.

“I tolerate nuts in jail, but I straight would not do anything different,” she said Thursday, several hours after she was bailed fully of the Pierce County Jail. “I know I’m in trouble, if it were not that … I know I changed his mind nearest time he even thinks whether he should or he shouldn’t.”

Gibson’s sister, Julia Borrayo, bailed her loudly by paying $1,500

Baldwin, meanwhile, remained in jail in lieu of $20,000 bail.