Babysitter checking for monsters finds man hiding under child's bed

Police arrest suspect after sitter shocked to encounter man when trying to show child there was nothing under the 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

A babysitter in Kansas who was asked by a child to check for monsters under their bed was stunned to discover a man hiding there, police have said.

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.