A once-promising college track star turned homeless woman has been allowed to roam free and threaten to kill young kids on the streets of San Francisco for several years — despite racking up a lengthy rap sheet, terrorized parents claim.
Kim Ann Andrews, 36, has become notorious for allegedly spewing vile abuse, threatening to abduct children and even slit their throats in multiple swanky neighborhoods near the famed Golden Gate Park, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
She has at least six arrests to her name this year alone for allegedly harassing families and making vile threats, police records show.
Andrews, however, has been cut loose every time — allowing her to return to the streets and continue her alleged troubling behavior, according to parents.
“It’s been four to five years and nothing has happened,” one mom, Jenna Palefsky, told the outlet after several run-ins with Andrews.
“She has been given unlimited second chances. Despite her being in and out of the system, they continue to release her back to the streets.”
A group of fed-up parents have been keeping tabs on Andrews’ behavior since 2020 — putting up flyers in their neighborhoods and tracking the police reports filed against her on a now-defunct site called “SF Safe Playgrounds”.
At least 40 police reports have been filed against her in recent years, the group’s tally shows.
Since 2020, she has also been arrested and booked into jail dozens of times for battery, trespassing, robbery, shoplifting and attacking officers, records show.
Locals claim, however, they’ve noticed a rapid decline in Andrews — and a subsequent uptick in troubling incidents involving kids and their parents — this year.
Cops finally issued a warrant for her arrest Tuesday.
The warrant comes a month after Andrews was last nabbed — and then set free as prosecutors built the case — for allegedly threatening a mom and toddler in a frightening incident in Golden Gate Park.
During that ordeal, Andrews is accused of holding a lighter to a can of Lysol as she screamed at the pair: “I’m going to kill you.”
She was slapped with criminal threats and child endangerment charges.
Other police reports filed against her include an alleged incident where Andrews spat on a heavily pregnant woman and raged: “I hope your baby dies.”
She also allegedly once chased a woman and her dog on the street before making her hand into the shape of a gun and saying, “I was sent here to kill you.”
The public defender representing Andrews in the wake of her latest arrest said they are “working to get her the support she needs.”
“Ms Andrews is a kind person who has been experiencing homelessness,” the attorney, Charlie Dickson said, adding that she “needs and deserves care and compassion, not incarceration.”
San Francisco Police Department liaison David Burke acknowledged there were limits on getting her help.
“There have been multiple attempts to get her into housing or get her a mental health assessment — she doesn’t want that and we can’t make her,” Burke said.
It wasn’t immediately clear how, or when, Andrews ended up on the streets of San Francisco.
She grew up in Pennsylvania and Southern California, public records show.
As a youngster, Andrews was a star athlete at Torrey Pines High School near San Diego before running track for two years at the University of California at San Diego.
Andrews, who once wrote in a college profile that she wanted to be a psychiatrist, dropped out before completing her biochemistry and cell biology degree.
Her father, Dr Philip Andrews, was a well-respected computer scientist at the college but died of a suspected heart attack in 2011, an online obituary said.
Andrews’ mom, Kathleen, still lives in the family’s $1 million home in Ramona, Ca., records show.
She is believed to have four siblings.
