Missing family found safe, ‘no evidence of criminal behavior:’ police

The lacking Maine girl, ex-boyfriend and their 2-year-old daughter have been discovered protected after disappearing throughout a household journey.
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A lacking Maine girl, her ex-boyfriend and their 2-year-old daughter have been discovered protected weeks after they disappeared throughout a household journey, authorities stated Friday. 

The Sanford Police Division stated it had spoken with Nicholas Hansen, Jill Sidebotham, and Lydia Hansen through the telephone and video chat. The three vanished after setting off on June 27 for a three-day tenting journey. 

“The Sanford Police Division can report that every celebration is unhurt and protected, and no proof of felony conduct has been noticed,” police stated in a Fb publish. “We additionally had verification that they have been protected from native legislation enforcement who met with them in particular person.”

In the course of the seek for the trio, investigators regarded into a number of leads they have been sighted on June 29 and July 2 at a Walmart in Mexico, Maine, about 100 miles from Sidebotham’s residence in Sanford.

The Maine Warden Service led two aerial searches round Mexico and Rangele for the household. 

Regardless of stories that Hansen could have been abusive, police don't have any proof that Sidebotham was in misery and say she went on the journey voluntarily, Fox Information Digital reported in July. Hansen’s state felony information contained no violent convictions.

The boyfriend was seen with the two-year-old in surveillance footage on the campground previous to going lacking.

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Photos launched by authorities on the time confirmed the three coming into a retailer on the Coos Canyon Campground on June 29. In numerous screengrabs from surveillance video, each mother and father might be seen carrying Lydia.

Sidebotham’s household instructed the Boston Globe in July that Hansen requested her to go on an impromptu journey on June 27.

Her mother and father suggested her to not settle for Hansen’s invitation to go tenting, the elder Sidebotham, who didn't reply to Fox Information Digital’s inquiry, instructed a number of media shops.

Fox Information’ Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.