SANFORD, MAINE ? The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has joined the Sanford, Maine, police department in the search for a missing 2-year-old and her mother who have not been heard from since late June.
Jill Sidebotham, 28, and her daughter, Lydia Hansen, 2, were last known to be in the company of Nicholas Hansen, Lydia?s father and a former boyfriend of Sidebotham. Sidebotham?s parents reported the pair missing July 2 when they didn?t return from an impromptu camping trip with Hansen.
The mother and child were expected home June 30. They live in Springvale, a village of Sanford with Ron and Cottie Sidebotham, Jill?s parents.
The trio was last seen on July 2 at a Mexico, Maine, Walmart, where they were caught on surveillance video. The Sanford Police Department Wednesday released stills from the Walmart video that show Sidebotham paying for groceries as Hansen stands next to her. Lydia is in the seat of the shopping cart.
The department on Monday released June 29 surveillance stills of the three at the camp store at Coos Canyon Campground, in Byron, Maine, which was their destination when they left Springvale. Hansen is carrying Lydia, with Sidebotham following. Another image shows Sidebotham holding Lydia in the store parking lot.
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Sanford police said that there has been no activity on Sidebotham?s credit cards since she was reported missing. Her cellphone hasn?t been active since June 28, when she last talked to her family, and Hansen?s hasn?t been since June 29, police said.
Sanford police said Monday that they enlisted the help of the Maine Warden Service, which searched western Franklin and Oxford counties in a fixed-wing aircraft for the car the trio was last seen in, a Silver 2005 VW Jetta with a black rear bumper, Maine license plate 1563VJ.
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