A 32-year-old Lynnwood woman walked into a Child Protective Services office in Lynnwood on Dec. 12 brandishing a baseball bat and demanding that a caseworker return her children to her, court documents say.
Toby Anne Irby was charged Wednesday with felony harassment in Snohomish County Superior Court and was being held on $20,000 bail.
Irby’s children are under the agency’s care, according to court charging papers.
She allegedly approached a receptionist while carrying a bat and screaming that she was going to kill a specific social worker, documents say. She paced back and forth and hit the bat on the floor, according to the court papers.
When the social worker came to the reception area, Irby demanded that her children be returned to her, or "someone was going to get hurt," deputy prosecutor Chris Dickinson said.
At one point, Irby cocked the bat behind her head as if she was going to take a swing at the social worker through the reception area glass, Dickinson said.
Irby left the building, and police were called. She was arrested later on an unrelated matter, giving a Lynnwood police officer a "long, rambling statement that was not germane to what happened" at the state agency’s office, Dickinson said.
No trial date has been set.
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