PALATKA, Fla. — A 3-year-old girl reportedly kidnapped by her mother in May 2014 was found safe Monday after police received a tip following the airing of CNN’s “The Hunt” Sunday night.

Lilly Abigail Baumann was found safe at a home in the Palatka area, according to the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office.

The girl’s mother, Megan Everett, is charged with kidnapping and interference with custody.

The girl, who was reported kidnapped in May 2014, was featured on John Walsh’s show “The Hunt” Sunday.  A landlady who lives in Putnam County recognized the girl and her mother as a tenants of her rental property on Motes Lane. The woman contacted CNN who immediately alerted local authorities.

The girl will be placed with her father Monday afternoon.

The disappearance

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?”

An unusual alliance

When Baumann had petitioned the court for full custody, he had two surprising allies in the fight: Everett’s mother, Pam, and her older sister, Stephanie.

As Pam told “The Hunt,” “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.”

Even with Everett’s family on his side, the court did not grant Baumann full custody. Instead, he and Everett were granted joint 50/50 custody, alternating weeks.

But only six weeks into this new arrangement, Everett and Lilly were gone.