Kidnapped Girl Found Alive After Airing of CNN’s ‘The Hunt’ w/ John Walsh

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Megan Elizabeth Everett
Megan Elizabeth Everett

FLORIDA — Lilly Abigail Baumann, a three year old toddler who was reportedly kidnapped by her mother, Megan Elizabeth Everett, 23, over a year ago has been recovered in the Palatka area. The youngster, who was reported kidnapped in Sunrise, FL, in May of 2014, was featured on CNN last night (08/02/15) on the John Walsh show “The Hunt.”

The airing of the show led to the discovery of the child’s whereabouts in Putnam County. Also, an arrest warrant had been issued in Sunrise charging the mother, Megan Everett, with kidnapping, interference with custody and concealing a minor contrary to a court order. A federal warrant was also issued for her for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.

A Putnam County landlady was watching the show last night, and recognized the mother and daughter as tenants of her rental property on Motes Lane, south of Palatka.

The landlady notified CNN who in turn contacted the FBI. Agents from the Daytona Beach FBI office called the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office. They requested that deputies check the residence while they traveled to Putnam County.

Captain Joseph Wells and Captain Dominic Piscitello led a team of deputies to the residence, and upon surrounding the house, observed the mother and daughter inside.

Lily
Lily

Lilly Abigail Baumann was recovered unharmed at the residence. Detective Kim Daley, a Victim’s Advocate at the Sheriff’s Office, is keeping the child while her father travels to Palatka from Sunrise this afternoon.

Megan Everett has been booked into the Putnam County Jail on the outstanding warrants without benefit of bond.

From CNN: On May 13, 2014, South Florida resident Robert Baumann went to pick up his daughter, Lilly, from the home of her mother, Megan Everett. When he got there, Everett and Lilly were nowhere to be found.

Everett’s boyfriend, Carlos Lesters, answered the door. “He said ‘Megan doesn’t live here. She moved,’ and he slammed the door in my face,” Baumann recalled to CNN’s “The Hunt With John Walsh.”

Mother and child were gone, but Everett left behind a note for Lesters, which read:

“Dear C, If I let them take her and vaccinate her and brainwash her, I wouldn’t be doing what’s right. 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.”

Baumann was stunned. “Then reality kind of hit me, and then the panic hit me,” he recalled. “What am I supposed to do now? How am I supposed to find her? Where do I go from here?”

Everett 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 cut Baumann out of her and her daughter’s lives.

Through the intervention of Everett’s mother, Pam, Baumann was able to be present for Lilly’s birth and to spend time with his daughter, once or twice a week, for the first couple of years of her life.

When Everett moved in with Lesters, her new boyfriend, Baumann grew concerned about losing access to Lilly for good. He was also troubled by photos showing Lilly playing near live ammunition and surrounded with Confederate flags.

Read more here: http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/30

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