A San Francisco woman who went from a life of luxury to ending up on the streets allegedly threatening to abduct and kill children has been placed into psychiatric care as she denied criminal charges against her.
Kim Andrews, 37, grew up in a $1.1 million home as the daughter of a famous genius scientist and was once an accomplished athlete.
But she has been on a downward spiral in the last few years, which has seen her involved in a series of frightening incidents at city parks, in which she is said to have terrorized moms and their kids.
Andrews became notorious in multiple ritzy San Francisco neighborhoods for roaming their streets, with multiple locals accusing her of threatening to kidnap frightened children, or even to slit their throats.
At her first court appearance on Monday, her lawyer Deputy Public Defender Tom McMahon revealed that she had been committed for psychiatric treatment for the last 120 days, the SF Chronicle reports. She was committed shortly after DailyMail.com revealed her shocking fall from grace.
She entered a conservatorship agreement in November and McMahon argued that incarceration could prevent Andrews from getting the proper care she needs.
The charges center on an incident back in July which allegedly saw Andrews approach a mom and her18-month-old child shouting, ‘You’re going to die’, while holding a lighter and a bottle of Lysol.
The court heard that Andrews had developed a ‘fixation’ on the child.
Kim Ann Andrews, 36, has become notorious in San Francisco with parents reporting terrifying incidents in which she threatens to kill their kids. She has pleaded not guilty to criminal charges and has been receiving psychiatric care
‘It is hard to imagine anything more threatening … the reports are horrific,’ San Francisco Superior Court Judge Kenneth Wine.
He branded Andrews ‘a danger to the public’ and said her behavior was ‘extraordinarily threatening’.
The court appearance is not Andrews’ first brush with the law. The formerly accomplished high school track and field competitor has faced criminal charges ranging in recent years from battery and robbery to shoplifting and criminal threats.
But San Francisco residents say nothing has been done to stop Andrews’ aggressive behavior, as she cycles through the jails and court before returning to the streets.
They have since banded together to encourage others to call 911 to report any harassment of children, with complaints spanning back for the last four years.
Yelena Dunduchenko said she encountered Andrews in 2020, while she was working as a nanny.
‘She started screaming and saying, “I am going to take your child, I am going to kill you,”‘ she recounted. ‘It was really scary.’
Local Megan Grasser said Andrews’ antics even led her to leave San Francisco.
Andrews was an accomplished high school track and field competitor at Torrey Pines High School near San Diego and is the daughter of an acclaimed computer scientist
Parents have reported terrifying encounters with Andrews over the last four years and even posted flyers warning about her
Grasser said she first encountered Andrews when she was nine-months-pregnant in late 2020.
The second encounter came three months later, when Grasser realized Andrews was chasing her and her dog.
Andrews then spewed a series of vile comments and formed her hand into the shape of a gun, put it to Grasser’s head and said, ‘I was sent here to kill you.’
Residents in the Cole Valley and Inner Sunset neighborhoods also noticed an uptick in encounters with Andrews earlier this year.
Some have detailed their experiences, with one writing on Reddit that Andrews typically approaches people with ‘dogs or young kids, ask weird questions, then get aggressive.’
Her situation is a far cry from the life she once knew as the daughter of a renowned computer scientist, the late Dr. Philip Andrews.
She grew up in Pennsylvania and Southern California, where she shone as an athlete at Torrey Pines High School near San Diego.
Andrews then ran track for two years at the University of California San Diego, where she remained enrolled for nearly 10 years before dropping out in March 2015 – never completing her degree in biochemistry and cell biology.
A disturbing 2022 Facebook post by Andrews suggested that her father – the late supercomputer genius Professor Philip Andrews – was still alive. He died of a heart attack in 2011
The former star athlete has racked up a slew of criminal charges for shoplifting, battery and criminal threats
Andrews grew up in a $1.1 million home outside of San Diego with her siblings who have since been forced to disown her
Her late father died of a heart attack in 2011 and is survived by his wife Kathleen – Kim’s mother – who still lives in the family’s $1.1 million Ramona home.
Kim also has three siblings, but posted a disturbing Facebook status in 2022 suggesting that her father may not actually be dead.
Her family has since given up trying to get through to Andrews but insist they have tried hard to support her.
In August Andrews’ sister, June Andrews, emailed San Francisco Mayor London Breed to warn that she, ‘has been causing great distress to families … by targeting kids’.
Her brother Ben Andrews also told DailyMail.com the family has been forced to disown her.
