A 53-year-old Lynnwood woman was recently accused of breaking into her estranged husband's home and beating him with a baseball bat during his sleep.

The couple, who had been married for 20 years, was in the process of divorcing when the woman, along with her son, decided she wouldn't get kicked out of her home without a fight. Both now faces charges of first-degree domestic violence assault and first-degree robbery.

The incident occurred around a month after the woman's husband filed for divorce and secured a protection order preventing her from coming back to the home. Court documents leading up to the protection order detail the man's accusation that his wife and her son had been involved with illegal drugs and that they had stolen his property. He requested a protection order out of fear that the two would harm him and the woman's other son.

The pair had apparently been kicked out of the home by April 1 and had been living out of a car since that time. The day of the attack, the man said he met his wife at a local park and gave her a rebate check that had come in the mail for her. At that time she complained that she had no money. Later that night he awoke to a noise and his wife beat him with a baseball bat as her son held him down on the bed. After fighting them off and calling 911, the pair fled. His injuries required several stitches and staples.

After the incident detective found that a board had been removed from the deck and someone had entered a crawlspace beneath the home and came inside through the floor of an office. Detectives found a jacket, a cigarette butt, a cell phone, a tissue, lighter, a bloodied and cracked baseball bat, and a wrench wrapped with a bloodied jacket upon investigation. Both the woman and her son were arrested later that day and police found the woman to be in possession of bank card belonging to her husband, along with methamphetamine and a package of the same brand of cigarettes as the one found at the man's home.

Sources said the woman has a 2004 conviction of attempted first-degree robbery. She denied her husband's allegations of violence.

Source: Herald Net, "Mother, son charged in assault, robbery of Lynnwood man," Diana Hefley, 28 April 2011.