Leander Woman Threatened To Kill Child Protective Workers: Police

LEANDER, TX — A Leander woman was arrested after allegedly threatening to kill employees of Child Protective Services when she was temporarily barred from seeing her son, according to a published report.

Referencing a newly released arrest affidavit, the Austin American-Statesman reported that Amanda Christine Meyer, 36, was upset over news that her parental rights were set to be temporarily suspended following a failed drug test, preventing her from seeing her 3-year-old son.

Her reaction is what got the woman, also known as Amanda Ketterer, in legal trouble. She is accused of verbally abusing a supervisor at the child protection agency over the phone before the state worker hung up. Some 20 minutes later, the woman is said to have called back and left a voice mail message saying "...everyone is going to die" if she was not allowed to see her son.

The woman subsequently was charged with a third-degree felony punishable by up to a decade in prison. She bonded out of the Williamson County Jail on Friday after posting on a $17,500 bail. Records indicate the same day she was booked into the county jail, the woman was also charged with driving while her license was invalid, expired registration, failure to maintain financial responsibility and failure to appear/bail jumping.

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Booking photo of Amanda Christine Meyer via Williamson County Jail records