Mother arrested on charges of kidnapping.
By Raif Karerat
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WASHINGTON, DC: A 3-year-old toddler reported kidnapped by her mother more than a year ago in South Florida was found safe Monday following the receipt of a tip one day after her story was aired on CNN’s “The Hunt.”
Lilly Abigail Baumann was found safe at a home in the Palatka area, according to the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office, while the girl’s mother, Megan Everett has been charged with kidnapping and interference with custody.
The case was resolved after a landlady who lives in Putnam County recognized the woman as tenants of her rental property. The landlady called CNN, which in turn contacted the FBI. Agents from the Daytona Beach FBI office called the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office, reported the Florida Times-Union.
According to the FBI, Lilly Abigail Baumann was reported missing on May 13, 2014, when Everett failed to return her daughter to the girl’s father as directed in their custody agreement.
“If I let them take her and vaccinate her and brainwash her, I wouldn’t be doing what’s right,” read the note left by Everett for the girl’s father, Robert Baumann. “I cannot let a judge tell me how my daughter should be raised. We will miss you, but I had to leave. I know she will be safer and happier with my family and I. Love, Meg and Lilly.”
On May 19, 2014, the Sunrise Police Department issued an arrest warrant for Everett, and she also was charged federally with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution less than a month later, the FBI reported.
“I don’t see her playing with toys in any picture. I see ammunition,” Baumann said. “I spoke to Megan about it, and it was, ‘Oh well,’ you know, ‘Take me to court’.” So he did. and Baumann had been together only a few months when their daughter, Lilly, was conceived. Everett ended the relationship before Lilly was born and reportedly wanted to excise Baumann out of her and her daughter’s lives, reported Q13 Fox.
When Everett moved in with Carlos Lesters, her new boyfriend, Baumann grew concerned about photos showing Lilly playing near live ammunition and surrounded with Confederate flags.
“I don’t see her playing with toys in any picture. I see ammunition,” Baumann said. “I spoke to Megan about it, and it was, ‘Oh well,’ you know, ‘Take me to court’.” So he did. Bauman petitioned the court with the support of Everett’s mother, Pam, and her older sister, Stephanie.
“It was going to be her way or no way. The baby was going to go to no school. It was not going to socialize. It was not going get its vaccinations and it was not going learn about anything but the Confederacy … something had to be done about that, Pam Everett told “The Hunt.”
While Lilly’s parents were granted joint custody, alternating weeks, Everett fled with her daughter only six weeks into the agreement.