Toddler Released from Hospital After Suspected Kidnapping Ordeal

The parents of 2-year-old Lyndon Albers brought their daughter home from the hospital Sunday, two days after the toddler was allegedly kidnapped and then abandoned in a pile of leaves eight miles from her Hamilton home.

Albers was released from Boston Children’s Hospital Sunday, according to a statement from the Essex County District Attorney’s Office. She had been there since Friday afternoon, shortly after an Ipswich couple told WHDH they spotted the girl in a pile of leaves on the side of the road in Rowley.

Just hours before that, Albers’ parents had called police to report that their daughter, whom they’d last seen at about 3 a.m. Friday, was missing from their Lincoln Avenue home in Hamilton.

A massive search for the toddler took place until that couple on their way to work found the girl at about 10 a.m.

A former babysitter for Albers, 21-year-old Abigail Hanna, has been arrested and charged with kidnapping, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, assault and battery on a child and breaking and entering in the nighttime. Hanna will be arraigned Monday in Newburyport District Court. She is currently being held without bail.