A 3-year-old toddler reported kidnapped more than a year ago in South Florida was found safe Monday about 280 miles away in Palatka, according to the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office. 
 
 Lilly Abigail Baumann is back with her father, Robert Baumann, after someone saw the child on a Sunday-night CNN segment on “The Hunt with John Walsh” and realized she and her mother were her tenants, the Sheriff’s Office said. 
 
 The child’s 23-year-old mother, Megan Elizabeth Everett, has been booked into the Putnam County jail on no bail on warrants for charges of kidnapping, interference with custody and concealing minors contrary to a court order, according to authorities. The FBI issued a bulletin on the case last summer. 
 
 While no Amber Alert was issued, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement did issue a Missing Endangered Persons report on the little girl, saying she “may be in the company of” Everett. 
 
 The child was reported missing May 13, 2014, when Everett failed to return her daughter to the girl’s father as directed in their custody agreement, according to the FBI. Everett had moved out of that home and taken their daughter with her and had not been seen since. 
 
 When the father went to pick up his daughter, Everett’s boyfriend answered the door and told him she “doesn’t live here. She moved,” and slammed the door in his face. She also left a note that said she did not want their child vaccinated, according to “The Hunt With John Walsh” show. 
 
 “If I let them take her and vaccinate her and brainwash her, I wouldn’t be doing what’s right,” the note read. “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. 
 
 The FBI’s missing person’s report indicated that the mother and child could be traveling in a silver 1999 Saturn with Florida plates. 
 
 But it was a Putnam County landlady who saw the CNN show and realized that Everett and the little girl were renting a home from her on Motes Lane, south of Palatka, according to the Sheriff’s Office. The landlady called CNN, which in turn contacted the FBI. Agents from the Daytona Beach FBI office called the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office. 
 
 Capts. Joseph Wells and Dominic Piscitello led a team of deputies to the home. They surrounded it, then saw a woman and child inside and contacted them, the Sheriff’s Office said. 
 
 Lilly was recovered safe and spent Monday afternoon with a victims advocate from the Sheriff’s Office as she waited for her father. Everett was booked into the Putnam County jail on the outstanding warrants, the Sheriff’s Office said. 
 
 The CNN segment from “The Hunt with John Walsh” can be seen at cnn.com/2015/07/30/us/megan-everett-the-hunt-john-walsh/index.html. 
 
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 A Sunrise woman who disappeared with her 2-year-old daughter last month to avoid having the child vaccinated now faces a federal criminal charge, according to court records. 
 
 Megan Elizabeth Everett, 22, was last seen on May 6, when Robert Baumann dropped off their daughter, Lilly, in compliance with a shared custody agreement. Lilly was supposed to be returned to Baumann a week later, but Everett never showed up. 
 
 According to court records, Everett left a note for her boyfriend, Carlos Lesters, vaguely explaining her actions. 
 
 "You are a great dad," she wrote, with the word "great" underlined. "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." 
 
 The child was the subject of a custody battle that appeared to be resolved in April, when Broward Circuit Judge Steven Feren granted each side 50 percent custody. Lilly was to alternate between each parent's home, with the exchange taking place every Tuesday, said Baumann's lawyer, Donna Goldman. 
 
 Broward Circuit Judge Michele Towbin Singer signed a warrant on May 19 to arrest Everett on charges of kidnapping, interference with custody and concealing a minor contrary to a court order. The federal charge accused Everett of crossing state lines to avoid prosecution for the state charges. 
 
 Baumann, an air-conditioning repairman, and Everett, a bookkeeper, were never married. 
 
 Everett's mother, Pam Everett, said Friday that the child belongs with her father.
– Florida sheriff's deputies said today they have arrested Megan Everett, 23, who allegedly kidnapped her 3-year-old daughter last year to ensure she wouldn't be vaccinated, the Florida Times Union reports. Everett's landlady apparently saw them on the CNN show "The Hunt with John Walsh" and turned them in. It all began last year in Sunrise, Fla., when Everett didn't return daughter Lilly Baumann to her dad, Robert Baumann, as part of their custody agreement, the Sun-Sentinel reported at the time. Everett boyfriend Carlos Lesters said she had left only a note: "If I let them take her and vaccinate her and brainwash her, I wouldn't be doing what's right," it read. "I cannot let a judge tell me how my daughter should be raised. We will miss you. But I had to leave." But Baumann says vaccination wasn't the only issue between them: "She wanted to home-school my daughter," he says. "I didn't want that to happen. She didn't want Lilly to learn about black history. She just wanted her to learn about the Confederacy." As it happens, Carlos is described in court papers as a gun enthusiast who loves the Confederate flag and has family in the South. As for vaccinations, "I think she wanted to keep her from being vaccinated because that would keep her out of day care," Baumann says. Now Lilly is with her dad again, and Everett is in Putnam County jail on no bail on charges of interference with custody, concealing minors contrary to a court order, and kidnapping.