Lilly Abigail Baumann, 3, was abducted by her mother, 23-year-old Megan Elizabeth Everett, in Sunrise last May, according to the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office.
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“This all started a year ago in Sunrise, FL, when a mother left with the child and didn’t return her”, said Capt. Dick Schauland of the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office, where the reunion took place. Everett ended the relationship before Lilly was born and reportedly wanted to cut Baumann out of her and her daughter’s lives.
Everett, meanwhile, is being held at the Putnam County Jail without bond on several warrants, including kidnapping, interference with custody and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.
The note read in part: “If I let them take her and vaccinate her and brainwash her, I wouldn’t be doing what’s right”.
‘You are a great dad, ‘ she wrote in the note to her current boyfriend, Carlos Lesters.
Everett was supposed to drop the girl off with her father but never did.
Baumann had planned to have his daughter receive vaccinations the next time he had custody and planned to enrol her in preschool, according to court records. The case was featured on CNN’s The Hunt with John Walsh over the weekend. I can not let a judge tell me how my daughter should be raised.
Robert is now on his way to re-unite with Lilly.
“I definitely think Megan might have said some things that aren’t true”.
A landlady who saw the show Sunday night called in a tip when she recognized the mother and daughter were tenants in a rental property she owns south of Palatka.
Baumann, who has since been reunited with his daughter, told the Sun Sentinel: ‘It’s so great, I’m so relieved.
“When I first heard that it’s possible that they found her, I was shocked”, Bauman said. “You don’t know how much it means to me and my family”.
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The news network in turn contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation which requested assistance from the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office, leading to Everett’s arrest. “Children bounce back and they handle things better than adults sometimes, so I hope she is going be just fine”.
