Mom wants to see daughter she was accused of kidnapping

The woman who snatched her daughter and left the state in 2014, partly to avoid vaccinating the child, was in court Tuesday to ask a Broward judge for permission to see the girl again.

Megan Everett, 24, pleaded no contest in September to charges of interfering with child custody and removing a child from the state contrary to a court order. She was sentenced to two years of house arrest and three years of probation, with Broward Circuit Judge Michael Ian Rothschild agreeing to withhold adjudication if she meets the terms of her sentence.

A withheld adjudication would keep the conviction off Everett’s formal criminal record.

Everett, of Sunrise, had also been accused of kidnapping, but that charge was dropped.

But one condition of her sentence was that Everett would need to comply with the family court’s provisions on custody of her daughter, Lilly, now 4. The girl is now in the custody of her father, Robert Baumann, 28, of Davie.

Baumann and Everett had reached an agreement in 2014 to split custody evenly, but after Baumann dropped off the child May 6, 2014, he wouldn’t see her again for 15 months.

Prosecutors say Everett and her boyfriend, Carlos Lesters, took Lilly out of state. Everett and Lesters were caught in August 2015. Charges against Lesters are pending.

On Tuesday, Rothschild told Everett that she could ask Baumann for permission to visit with Lilly and clear it with the family court, but that he was reluctant to intervene.

Baumann declined to discuss under what circumstances he would approve of visitation.