“When the victim [babysitter] attempted to show the child there was nothing under the bed, she came face-to-face with a male suspect who was hiding there,” BCSO sheriff Brian Bellendir said. “An altercation ensued with the babysitter and one child being knocked over in the struggle.”

A babysitter looked under a bed to reassure a worried child that there wasn’t a monster hiding there — and came face-to-face with a man who wasn’t supposed to be there, a sheriff’s office in Kansas said in a news release.