‘I’ve been watching you.’ Woman with no pants tries to kidnap teen girl, KY cops say

A 14-year-old girl escaped a kidnapping attempt last week by a woman only wearing a T-shirt, according to Kentucky police.

The Meade County Sheriff’s Office said the girl was walking to a friend’s house when Kimberly Phelps “jumped out of a a small patch of woods and grabbed the juvenile from behind and covered her mouth.”

Phelps, 50, told the girl, “I’ve been watching you for awhile,” the Sheriff’s Office said.

The girl said Phelps grabbed her arm and dragged her toward a driveway, an arrest citation states. Phelps pulled the girl closer the first couple of times she tried to pull away, the citation says.

The teen said “she was afraid for her life and thought she was going to die,” the Sheriff’s Office said, but she eventually freed herself and ran toward her friend’s house.

Phelps also gave the teenage girl “drinking glasses, papers and other small items,” the arrest citation says.

Phelps was described by the girl as wearing only a T-shirt with no pants and having “scratch marks on her right arm,” according to the sheriff. She was found matching that description, wearing pants, and had some of the same drinking glasses she gave the girl, the Sheriff’s Office said.

The woman said the girl “had approached her and gave her a hug,” but that was all that happened, court records show. She told the Sheriff’s Office she gave the teen a book she wanted her to read.

Phelps was charged with attempted kidnapping of a minor and placed in the Meade County Detention Center, jail records show. A $10,000 cash bond has been set for Phelps, who will be arraigned Wednesday, according to court records.

She was also charged with disorderly conduct last month after allegedly yelling and pushing employees at a local Walgreen’s while intoxicated, court records show.