--- description: A babysitter's ill-planned burglary plot was foiled by a very wise 4-year-old named Abby. title: How a 4-Year-Old Girl Foiled Her Babysitter's Robbery Plot image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt153087c901cc5bb9/698698e406f2c14c6632f991/119818994.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # How a 4-Year-Old Girl Foiled Her Babysitter's Robbery Plot by [Laura Stampler](/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 24, 2014 11:30 AM CUT  Yellow police tape Yellow police tapeGetty Images by [Laura Stampler](/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 24, 2014 11:30 AM CUT A babysitter’s ill-planned burglary plot was foiled by a very wise 4-year-old named Abby. Wednesday, or what Abby described to a [Detroit Fox affiliate](http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/25847242/4-year-old-foils-plot "undefined") as “the worst day in my life,” two teenage men invaded the parent-free home. Among other goods, “The bad guys stole my kitty bank, they stole my iPod,” Abby said. While the 17-year-old babysitter said that the thieves were two armed black males — one of whom suspiciously looked like the next door neighbor — her story fell apart when Abby “described the suspects as having peach-colored skin as opposed to having dark colored skin,” [Sheriff Bill Elfo told ABC News.](http://abcnews.go.com/US/girl-foils-babysitters-burglary-plot-police/story "undefined") The babysitter almost immediately confessed that her boyfriend and a cohort had, in fact, been the ones who actually committed the crime. All three involved were arrested. The innocent neighbor was handcuffed and questioned for hours, but was later released. > [](https://twitter.com/fox32news/status/481147589610319872) ([_Fox_](http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/25847242/4-year-old-foils-plot "undefined")_)_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2913766/how-a-4-year-old-girl-foiled-her-babysitters-robbery-plot/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2913766/how-a-4-year-old-girl-foiled-her-babysitters-robbery-plot/"},"headline":"How a 4-Year-Old Girl Foiled Her Babysitter's Robbery Plot","datePublished":"2014-06-24T11:30:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:11:04.264Z","description":"Definitely not Babysitter's Club material","url":"https://time.com/2913766/how-a-4-year-old-girl-foiled-her-babysitters-robbery-plot/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Living","Crime","Race","Appreciation","robbery"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt153087c901cc5bb9/698698e406f2c14c6632f991/119818994.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt153087c901cc5bb9/698698e406f2c14c6632f991/119818994.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"police","caption":"119818994","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2913766/how-a-4-year-old-girl-foiled-her-babysitters-robbery-plot/","name":"How a 4-Year-Old Girl Foiled Her Babysitter's Robbery Plot"}}]}] ```