The security guard stated that a heavyset woman (matching the description the parents had given) did leave around 3:30 am, but she did not have a child with her. DNA testing was performed to confirm that Carlina White was indeed their child. This also included an attempted embezzlement charge from 2010. Finally, more than 23 years after her kidnapping, White was reunited with her parents in 2011. She recalled, The mom had that mother instinct. 2023 BDG Media, Inc. All rights reserved. The defense pointed to Pettway's suffering, including miscarriages and three still births. 2023 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. Around her 16th birthday, Carlina began to believe she. He was last seen at a water park in Wisconsin Dells,. Later, Carl Tyson recalled that a woman wearing a nurses uniform directed them upon their arrival, and he saw her again while looking for a phone to update Whites grandparents on her condition. When national news broke of the reunion, White flew back to New York to do a series of interviews which she felt forced parts of the new relationship that hadnt developed yet. "You hurt me so bad. Joy White and Carl Tyson both confirmed that most of this money had been spent during the years before their reunion, and that a trust fund that had been established was obtainable only if Carlina had been found before the age of 21. "I went to the hospital," said Pettway. Pettway is on parole in North Carolina until June 2012. Carlina White's father said he thought the sentence was too lenient and that Pettway should've received the amount of time as she'd kept his daughter, 23 years. She then reached out to the organization, which put her in touch with her birth parents. According to her parents, she does not have a relationship with either of them. Even before the DNA analysis was complete, with all three feeling certain it would be a match, White began talking to Joy and Carl on the phone, and flew to New York to meet them in early 2011. But while White was later found and reunited with her parents, Dansby and Walker's families are still holding out hope that their children will turn up. Since Netty needed to get health insurance, she needed her birth certificate. The Mountbatten-Windsors have been recastagain. It's believed that she is incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution in Aliceville, Alabama, to complete her term. Pettway finally had to confess to White that she wasnt her biological mother. Even in the beginning of the year, with all the drama and stuff, I was kind of cloudy. Feb. 10, 2012— -- A woman who snatched an infant from a New York City hospital 24 years ago and raised her as her daughter pleaded guilty today to a federal kidnapping charge and faces at least 10 years in prison. According to ABC News, Pettway initially went on the run after White's story made the news, but she eventually surrendered to police. It's what I gave myself," she said. She began to think about Pettway, who at the time was on the run from the FBI. Carlina keeps in touch with her birth parents, but they are not. She brought her beautiful daughter. She contacted the agency and finally learned the truth in 2011. Carlina White's father, Carl Tyson, insinuated the punishment was too lenient and felt as though Pettway should receive prison time equivalent to the years his daughter was kept away from him. Carlina White/FacebookCarlina White solved her own kidnapping case in 2005. Carlina White was reunited with her birth parents in 2011. A woman reportedly dressed as a nurse had comforted the parents at the hospital, but was not a hospital employee. Joy White (Sherri Shepherd) confronts Ann Pettway (Aunjanue Ellis), the woman who kidnapped her baby girl and raised her as her own, in this scene from Abduc. Pettway, who had been loitering around the facility for at least a few weeks, if not months, before the abduction, police toldThe New York Times (opens in new tab), had been dressed as a nurse and interacted with White's parents upon their arrival at the hospital. Tyson and Joy White decided that she would stay at the hospital with the baby, but she needed to get some things from home first. Marie Claire is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. For the next year, White kept pressing Pettway for more details about her birth mother, but Pettway claimed she couldnt remember anything. If they don't accept it, it's understandable. It may be rejected, but I am deeply sorry for what I've done. The revelation was not entirely surprising to White as she had begun to notice that she did not share physical traits with Pettway. New York, 24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events. "Pettway was dealing with the stress of trying to be a mom and had had several miscarriages. DNA tests last year confirmed her as the daughter of Joy White and Carl Tyson. [15] On July 30, 2012, Judge P. Kevin Castel sentenced Pettway, who was then 50 years old, to 12 years in prison. (opens in new tab)The boys were abducted from the same Harlem playground just three months apart in 1989, when they were 2 years old and 19 months old, respectively. She is being held without bail. Ann Pettway, Kidnapper of Carlina White, Gets 12 Years in Prison - The New York Times Kidnapping of Baby Draws 12-Year Term Joy White, speaking to reporters on Monday. For the mothers of the missing boys in Episode 6 of Unsolved Mysteries Volume 2, Carlina White's case is a beacon of hope. Pettway, 51, was arrested last year after the victim, Carlina White, discovered she had been kidnapped. White then got in touch with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, submitted a DNA sample, and eventually learned her true identity in 2011; the following year, Pettway was sentenced to 12 years in prison for kidnapping after turning herself in. She has reconnected with her biological parents but admits that she still has love for the woman she called Mom for the first 23 years of her life. discovered her birth certificate was fake, Pettway was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Dis friends have said she referred to the doctor as the love of her life.. Though the hospital had a surveillance system, it was not working at the time of the abduction, and there were few potential witnesses. In 1987, Pettway told her friends she was pregnant, and a friend later said Pettway left town for a while before returning with a child. Johnson is a member of the FBI's Crimes Against Children Squad. But no one ever came forward, and the parents had to wait 23 years before gaining some closure. Pettway later moved to Atlanta, taking Carlina with her. It turned out that Carlina was actually being raised in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and went by the name Nejdra Netty Nance. She passed herself off as a nurse, and even the other nurses belived her. Police began a thorough investigation, and for a while they thought they had a suspect. Daniels, with the help of the FBI, arranged a neutral location to meet Pettway. They told him his daughter was missing while his girlfriend screamed in the background. White was separated from her parents from 1987 until 2011, making hers the longest child abduction case to be solved in the Center for Missing and Exploited Children's history, as well as the first in which the kidnapping victim led the reunification efforts, the center's Bob Lowerytold (opens in new tab)theConnecticut Postin 2011. After comparing baby photos of "Nejdra" to Carlina's, and with White sporting the same birthmark on her arm as baby Carlina, the NYPD contacted Joy and Carl for DNA samples. The Whites had brought their 19-day-old infant, who had a high fever, to Harlem Hospital in Manhattan on August 4, 1987. It was the police calling from Joy Whites apartment. This was when Netty was pregnant and needed health insurance. WCBS 880's Irene Cornell With More On The Story. As part of a plea bargain, prosecutors agreed to recommend to the judge a prison sentence of 10 to 12 years. The last thing Joy White could recall about the nurse was a bizarre comment she made as her newborn daughter was admitted: The baby dont cry for you, you cry for the baby. She now believes it was the womans attempt to get rid of her. Soon, she got in touch with her biological family. Ann Pettway, who pleaded guilty in February to . Ann Pettway abducted baby Carlina White from Harlem Hospital on August 4, 1987, and raised the child as her own. Netty's not what the Pettway family gave me or what the White family gave me. Jessica O'Connor is a public historian focusing on Deep South Black History with degrees from Winston-Salem State University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 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White asked Pettway for the document, but she couldnt provide it. [18] By the following July, White became estranged from her biological parents. Pettway lied and told White that she had been abandoned by a drug addict. July 30, 2012 / 11:27 PM Please offer your thoughts in the comments section below First published on July 30, 2012 / 11:27 PM. "[5], Pettway turned herself in to the FBI office at Bridgeport on the morning of January 23, 2011. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. "She's concerned about the impact this has on all the members of her family, but she is trusting that all the true facts will come out and when they do, she will be looked at in a very different light," Baum said. I just always believed that she would find me. Dressed like a nurse, Pettway reportedly told Mrs. White, "Don't cry . Nurses said they had checked on baby White every five minutes and had discovered she was missing at 3:40 a.m. It was magic.. After being unable to shake off a sense that she did not belong to the family that raised her, Carlina White began her own inquiries. After reading about the kidnapping of Carlina White, read about the Ariel Castro kidnappings and how his victims escaped 10 years of abuse. "You didn't take a bike. "Pettway was dealing with the stress of trying to be a mom and had had several miscarriages. However, she lied to Netty by saying that the actual parent was a drug addict who abandoned her when she was just a child. Then, in a quest to find some answers, Netty turned to the internet. 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