{"id":875,"date":"2025-03-28T01:02:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T02:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/?p=875"},"modified":"2025-03-28T16:42:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T16:42:32","slug":"babysitter-checking-childs-room-for-monster-finds-man-hiding-under-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/babysitter-checking-childs-room-for-monster-finds-man-hiding-under-bed\/","title":{"rendered":"Babysitter checking child's room for 'monster' finds man hiding under bed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Y\ufeffoung children can often complain about monsters in the night keeping them awake, but for one unlucky American youngster their fears about uninvited visitors came true.<\/p>\n

When putting the child to bed at their home \ufeffin the city of Great Bend, Kansas, a babysitter was told by the kid there was a "monster" hiding in the room.<\/p>\n

To reassure them there was nothing to worry about, she looked under the bed, but came "face to face" with a man hiding there, Barton County Sheriff's Office said.<\/p>\n

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"An altercation ensued with the babysitter and one child was knocked over in the struggle. The suspect then fled the scene before deputies arrived," said the sheriff's office.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old man then fled the home before being found and arrested by law enforcement officers in the same neighbourhood on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

Authorities say the man, identified as Martin Villalobos Junior, once lived at the property and had a protection from abuse order to stay away from the home. <\/p>\n

He faces charges including aggravated kidnapping aggravated and child endangerment.<\/p>\n

He is being held in a jail on a $US500,000 ($794,000) bond.<\/p>\n

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