A woman has been arrested in the abduction and alleged torture of a 2 year old.
The Hamilton Police Department says 21-year-old Abigail Hanna has been charged with kidnapping, assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon, assault and battery on a child, and breaking and entering.
Hanna is the former babysitter of Lyndon Albers, a 2-year-old who was reported missing early Friday morning.
The toddler was found several hours later 8 miles away in Rowley by a couple driving to work.
She was found naked and covered in leaves, according to sources and had cigarette burns on her body. Her head was also shaved.
According to Hanna’s facebook page, she got engaged to her bf this month.
Marge Crosby and her husband, Tom Crosby, were driving to the boutique they own in Amesbury just after 9:30 a.m. when he spotted something on the side of the road in Rowley that looked, at first, like a doll.
โTom says โI think I just saw a baby on the side of the road.โ I said โWhat, are you crazy?โโโ Marge Crosby told the Herald. โI donโt want to say a vision but thatโs what it was, a vision. I drove by and then quickly it flashed through my head. I said โWas that a baby or was it a doll,โโโ said Tom Crosby.
They swung the car around to check.
โWe didnโt know if it was a girl or a boy. It looked like a boy right away,โ said Marge Crosby.
Tom Crosby said he took off his coat, wrapped it around Albers, and scooped her up into the back seat of their car. They called the police, who swarmed the narrow, secluded road in minutes.
Tom and Marge Crosby said the toddler had her head shaved and was suffering from a โbig contusionโ or bruise mark on her head the size of a softball.
The little girl was reported missing from her Lincoln Avenue home in Hamilton at 7 a.m., according to state police. The couple found her 8 miles away in Rowley.
โItโs hard to comprehend how she got from Hamilton to there,โ Marge Crosby said.
โIt didnโt look like she was dumped. It looked like she was placed,โ Tom Crosby added.
He said he tried to talk to the tot as she sat smiling in the back of his car, nodding off.
Marge Crosby said the whole ordeal was โvery disturbingโ โ โItโs like youโre in a dream. Itโs like, is this real?โ she said.
Hamilton Police Chief Russell Stevens said the blonde-haired girl was transported to a nearby hospital, where she was listed in fair condition. Then she was taken to Boston Childrenโs Hospital.
Stevens likened the case to a โjigsaw puzzle, and pieces of the puzzle are โจstill missing.โ
The little girlโs grandmother, Mary-Ellen Albers, said she was relieved to hear her granddaughter had been found safe.
โOf course we are very happy that she is OK,โ Albers said. โWe are thankful for all of the prayers that have been offered.โ
Albers was first taken to Beverly Hospital where she was listed in fair condition. She was later transferred to Boston Children’s Hospital where she is currently being treated.
The suspect Abigail Hannah is being held without bail.
Source: Boston Herald
