A sicko dressed in a cartoonish Pink Panther-like costume allegedly hunted down local Virginia school kids in broad daylight – and nearly snatched up a little girl.

The pink predator struck around 4:30 p.m. on May 14, trailing a group of terrified youngsters fresh off the school bus in Frdericksburg, where horrifying video showed the creep prowling along the grassy roadside.

 “This man stared down my son and one of the older neighbors from across the road. That’s when this picture was snapped,” a local resident posted on Facebook.

“When scarlet and a little neighbor girl got off the bus, he chased after all 4 kids and tried to grab the little girl (slowest) her sister pulled her away and they got away.”

“A car drove by them and he turned and ran away.”

A witness wrote that they saw the attempted abduction, but they couldn’t stop their car in time.