Babysitter, 21, who 'abducted two-year-old girl from her bed and shaved the toddler's head' is a privately-educated college dropout who got engaged just weeks ago
- Abigail Hanna from Topsfield, Massachusetts, was arrested on Friday
- Was detained after Lyndon Albers was found naked on the side of a road
- Toddler had her head shaved and cigarette burns over her body
- Hanna, who is facing kidnapping charges, grew up in a $1million house
- Went to a Christian Prep school, but was only in college for a semester
- According to Facebook, she got engaged to Nathan Wolters recently
- An ex-classmate said she had depression and 'body image' issues
A former babysitter charged with abducting a two-year-old girl from her home in the middle of the night and dumping her eight miles away, naked and covered in injuries, was a college dropout who got engaged just weeks ago.
Abigail Hanna, 21 from Topsfield, Massachusetts, was arrested on Friday after Lyndon Albers a child who she looked after, was discovered lying on the side of the road three hours after she was reported missing.
The toddler had cigarette burns on her body and her head had been shaved. She was taken to hospital and was released on Sunday afternoon.
Hanna, who is being held without bail, was educated at an $18,000-a-year private Christian Preparatory school in Connecticut, a report suggests.
She grew up in a family home worth more than $1million, according to Zillow, before attending Gordon College - but a spokesman told the Boston Globe she left after just one semester.
According to Facebook, she got engaged to Nathan Wolters earlier this month. But he deleted his profile after her arrest.
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Police have charged Abigail Hanna (pictured left) the former babysitter of a two-year-old girl, with kidnapping Lyndon Albers (right) after the child disappeared from her home and was found later naked, covered in cigarette burns and with a shaved head
Lyndon (pictured, before her disappearance) was last seen by her parents at home at around 3am and then reported missing at 7am on Friday
According to her Facebook page, Hanna got engaged to Nathan Wolters (pictured together) this month
An ex-classmate, who wanted to remain anonymous, told the Globe: 'When I first met her I thought she was really nice, pretty sweet. She was usually very insightful when we had conversations, or in class.'
She revealed that she was transferred to The Master's when she was a junior and started babysitting while she was in Connecticut.
The classmate said Hanna was struggling with depression and 'body image' issues, but nothing that would have predicted her alleged actions.
'I didn't expect something so severe to happen,' said the classmate. 'Especially because it seemed like after high school she had more support from others, and was doing what she wanted to do.... I was honestly just shocked.
She had recently shared an article titled '18 Empowering Illustrations to Remind Everyone Who's Really in Charge of Women's Bodies' on her Facebook page.
Hanna also posted a link to a poem she had written, Movement, and had published on website Teen Ink.
She was well traveled, living in London and studying in Azusa, California.
Hanna's father, Laurie, is listed on Facebook as a teacher at Stafford Springs Elementary in Connecticut.
After her arrest, Hamilton Police Chief Russell Stevens said the evidence indicates that the abduction was not a random crime.
He added that further details are not being released to 'protect the integrity of the ongoing investigation'.
Sources told WHDH that the family had trusted the babysitter at one point, but had recently fired her.
According to the Boston Herald, she only looked after Lyndon once or twice as she wasn't available enough.
The Hamilton Police Department says 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 (pictured) was charged with kidnapping, assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon, assault and battery on a child and breaking and entering
A former classmate said Hanna was struggling with depression and 'body image' issues, but nothing that would have predicted her alleged actions
Hanna (pictured center, with her family) is being held without bail, Hamilton police department said
Lyndon's parents Tim and Joanie told police they last saw her at around 3am at their home in Hamilton, Massachusetts. They reported her missing at 7am.
According to NECN, an Amber Alert was in the process of being issued before Lyndon was found.
She was shivering from the cold and sitting in a pile of leaves with a bruise on her newly shaved head when she was spotted by Tom and Marge Crosby, who were driving to their boutique in Amesbury at the time.
Tom Crosby said it was a 'vision; that compelled him to turn his car around after spotting the child in the road.
'I don't want to say a vision but that's what it was — a vision,' he told the Boston Herald. 'I drove by and then quickly it flashed through my head. I said 'Was that a baby or was it a doll?''
They couple bundled the child into their car and gave her a blanket as they waited for police.
'She was alert but had a big contusion on her head,' his wife Marge added to WHDH.
Lyndon was reunited with her parents at Beverly Hospital and has since been transferred to Boston Children's Hospital.
On Sunday afternoon, she was released.
Lyndon was shivering from the cold and sitting in a pile of leaves with a bruise on her newly shaved head when she was spotted by Tom and Marge Crosby (pictured)
Marge Crosby (left) said the child had a contusion on her head. Her husband Tom (right) said a 'vision' compelled him to turn his car around after spotting what appeared to be a child
On Friday, Chief Stevens could not confirm if Lyndon left the home on her own accord or if she was taken.
'We're trying to put the pieces together right now,' he said at a news conference.
'It's like a jigsaw puzzle and a bunch of the pieces are missing.'
Police executed a search warrant at Lyndon's home on Friday and said they were treating it as a crime scene until they knew more information.
Stevens also said there was no threat to the public.
'If I thought parents should be concerned, I would be the first one standing if front of this microphone and your cameras telling them to be concerned,' he said.
'So right now I would say no, you do not need to be concerned.'
Lyndon's parents told police they last saw her at around 3am at their home (pictured) in Hamilton, Massachusetts. They reported her missing at 7am
Police executed a search warrant at Lyndon's home (pictured) on Friday and said they were treating it as a crime scene until they knew more information
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