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muriel_volestrangler

(103,484 posts)
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 09:16 AM Mar 27

Kansas babysitter checking for monsters finds man hiding under bed

The shocking incident occurred on 24 March at a property just outside the city of Great Bend, when the sitter was seeking to put the children she was looking after to bed. However, one of them was afraid.

“One child complained there was a ‘monster’ under their bed. When the victim attempted to show the child there was nothing under the bed, she came face-to-face with a male suspect who was hiding there,” police said in a statement.

“An altercation ensued with the babysitter and one child was knocked over in the struggle. The suspect then fled the scene before deputies arrived.”

After police got to the property the victim identified the suspect as Martin Villalobos Jr, 27, who once lived there.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/babysitter-man-under-child-bed-kansas

$500,000 bond for, among other things, violation of a protection from abuse order.
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Kansas babysitter checking for monsters finds man hiding under bed (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Mar 27 OP
Holy shit. Those poor kids are scared for life. Or at least I would be. chicoescuela Mar 27 #1
I'd never babysit again! Yikes! unblock Mar 27 #2
UK beer ad from 23 years ago: muriel_volestrangler Mar 27 #3
Yikes!!! Thank goodness it didn't turn out worse. tanyev Mar 27 #4
How horrifying! 10 Turtle Day Mar 27 #5
SNL once did a commercial parody for the product "Monster Spray." John1956PA Mar 27 #6
Yikes! When I was little I was always afraid there was one in my closet Rhiannon12866 Mar 28 #7

tanyev

(46,166 posts)
4. Yikes!!! Thank goodness it didn't turn out worse.
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 09:50 AM
Mar 27

Hope those kids and the babysitter get all the hugs and therapy they might need.

John1956PA

(3,970 posts)
6. SNL once did a commercial parody for the product "Monster Spray."
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 10:34 AM
Mar 27

Screen still from the March 21, 1992, parody:

Rhiannon12866

(232,795 posts)
7. Yikes! When I was little I was always afraid there was one in my closet
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 06:42 AM
Mar 28

If this had ever happened to me I can't imagine sleeping again!

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