ELYRIA — Three teenage girls were sent to the Detention Home last night after they attacked an Elyria woman.

The girls, ages 15, 16 and 17, are charged with aggravated menacing, assault and violating a protection order.

According to a police report, the girls showed up at the woman’s Parmely Avenue home about 9 p.m. with another girl, who the woman knew only by her first name, and five males.

The teenagers, who were carrying a baseball bat, picked up the 37-year-old woman’s address sign and slammed it into the back window of her van and threw a brick at her neighbor’s house, the report said. Neither window was broken.

According to the report, the girls were believed to be looking for someone inside the woman’s home.

When the woman wouldn’t let them in the home, one of the girls punched her in the face, and she threw a punch back to defend herself, the report said.

The girls then took turns swinging the bat at the woman, but none of them were able to hit her, according to the report. After that, they all jumped on her, and she was knocked to the ground, the report said.

The woman told police the teens were upset due to a court case involving her niece.

The woman’s sister said that at least three of the four girls had shown up at her house earlier in the evening.

About 6:20 p.m., they went to her home, in the 800 block of West Avenue, and kicked her fence and threw rocks at her home when she would not allow her daughter to go out and fight them, according to a separate police report.