Pettway boarded a train for her home in Bridgeport, Conn., and told friends and family member the baby was her child. White explained, There was a part of me that wasnt even there, and now I feel whole. Please offer your thoughts in the comments section below First published on July 30, 2012 / 11:27 PM. In fact, many of the other staff members even believed that Ann was a part of the team (despite not being employed by the facility). 2012 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. It was wrong.''. But when they returned they received the At Manhattan Federal Court, the judge said that what Pettway did was "not a crime of greed or vengeance, but was a crime of selfishness. One day, Ann confessed that she was not the biological mother. "You didn't take a bike. Pettway, 51, was arrested last year after the victim,. Here's everything we know about White's miraculous case, from her shocking kidnapping to her triumphant reunion with her birth parents. Dressed like a nurse, Pettway reportedly told Mrs. White, "Don't cry . According to records from the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Pettway is still serving her sentence in New York, but she won't be serving all 12 years of it. 1 of 6 Ann Pettway turned herself in on Sunday, Jan. 23, 2011 to authorities in Bridgeport, Conn. Pettway was charged in 1987 kidnapping of Carlina White from Harlem Hospital in New York City. Well, she had on a nurses uniform that night, and prior to that, she had spent 2-3 weeks in the hospital. "I'm not really satisfied with the sentence because I figure Ann Pettway should have received 23 years in jail because Ann took 23 from me," said White's biological father, Carl Tyson. Pettway had been in trouble with the law several times as a teen on charges of larceny, theft, and forgery, but police who knew her said she wasnt a hell-raiser. As an adult, she struggled with a drug addiction. Police began a thorough investigation, and for a while they thought they had a suspect. White's parents, Joy White and Carl Tyson, had taken their feverish daughter to the hospital 23 years ago. ABC News' Kaitlyn Folmer contributed to this report. Kates coat was a Catherine Walker rewear; Diana wore her Moschino suit numerous times. He said his birthday is Oct. 18, 2004, which matches Timmothy's date of birth. On Jan. 23, 2011, Annugetta Pettway turned herself in to the FBI after a warrant was issued for her arrest. I just always believed that she would find me. [15] On July 30, 2012, Judge P. Kevin Castel sentenced Pettway, who was then 50 years old, to 12 years in prison. White was abducted from New York City's Harlem Hospital Center in Aug. 1987, when she was just 19 days old. (CBS/AP) NEW YORK - Ann Pettway, the woman who kidnapped a newborn from a New York City hospital more than two decades ago and raised the girl as her own, pleaded guilty Friday to a kidnapping. She has been incarcerated since surrendering to Bridgeport police in January, ending a several-day manhunt that began in North Carolina. Pettway is on parole in North Carolina until June 2012. Though White was already somewhat suspicious of the fact that she seemingly bore no physical resemblance to Pettway, the first real red flag appeared in 2005, when White got pregnant and asked Pettway for her birth certificate so she could obtain health insurance. White's father, Carl Tyson, expressed his disappointment, saying . All my friends used to say she was a cool mom.". White's case is featured in Unsolved Mysteries Volume 2. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children helped reunite White with her biological mother. White's parents sued the city and with the money they won established a trust fund for their daughter in the event of her return. Joy White said she remembered Pettway, posing as a nurse, consoling her before picking up the baby and waking away. However, the prosecution pointed out that Ann had been convicted of a number of crimes while she was raising the child. 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. "For 23 years, Ann, you had me suffering. "Because of my actions so many lives were hurt," she said, adding that she had raised "a wonderful bright young woman". During the hearing, Pettway apologized, saying "I would like to apologize to the family. Netty said this about the whole ordeal: Im not mad at Ann any more. Netflix owes us answers after that ending. For the next twenty-three years Carlina's parents continued to search for their daughter. A woman who admitted to stealing a 19-day-old infant from a Manhattan hospital in 1987 was sentenced Monday to 12 years in prison. How did she accomplish this in the first place? 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In a letter ahead of the sentencing hearing, Pettway apologised and said the kidnapping would have never occurred if she had sought professional help after her failed pregnancies. Though White didn't appear at Pettway's trial, her birth parents gave emotional testimonies at the sentencing. Netty graduated from Warren Harding High School, following which, Ann and her moved out to Atlanta for a while. Pettway finally had to confess to White that she wasnt her biological mother. "She took [Carlina] for 23 years. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Paleontologists In North Dakota Just Found The Remains Of A Dinosaur That Was Killed The Day The Asteroid Struck, The Disturbing Disappearance Of 18-Year-Old Zebb Quinn And The Series Of Bizarre Clues Left Behind, What Stephen Hawking Thinks Threatens Humankind The Most, 27 Raw Images Of When Punk Ruled New York, Join The All That's Interesting Weekly Dispatch. Timmothy, from Aurora, Illinois, would be 14 years old now. 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 . Carlina was raised in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Pettway's attorney, Robert Baum, plans to obtain her hospital records and review her medical history. In his, Carl told Pettway, "What you should get is 23 years, what you took away from me," while Joy said, "I'm broken into a million pieces." . It was the police calling from Joy Whites apartment. Joy White and Carl Tyson had brought their newborn daughter to the hospital after she developed an infection and high fever; within a few hours, she was smuggled out of the hospital by Ann Pettway. However, she lied to Netty by saying that the actual parent was a drug addict who abandoned her when she was just a child. Authorities checked her DNA against her birth parents and realized she was their missing daughter. July 30, 2012 / 11:27 PM The case represents one of the longest known gaps in an abduction in which the victim was reunited with the family in the United States. In this article, we take a look at a woman who kidnapped a child only 19 days after her birth. It wasn't until 2010, when she was 23 and living in Atlanta, that she decided to try expanding her search outside of Connecticut, and found a photo of a baby who had been abducted in 1987 and looked just like her own young daughter on the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children's website. Then, in a quest to find some answers, Netty turned to the internet. 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. According to the Chicago Tribune, this was partly due to the press attention, but also because White wasn't able to sue New York state for what happened to her. 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. Carlina White solved her own kidnapping case in 2005. 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. Now, the former Nejdra Nance has legally changed her name to Carlina White, but she informally goes by Netty a name she chose all for herself. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. As documented in the show, White was was kidnapped by Ann Pettway in 1987 when she was 19 days old. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. While Pettway was stalling, White visited a Connecticut Bureau of Vital Statistics, where a clerk was unable to find any records under her name and birth date, accused White of attempting to obtain a false identity, and flagged the case to the state's Department of Children and Families, White toldNew York. White ultimately discovered that she had been kidnapped as a baby by searching missing children web sites, and in early 2011, was finally reunited with her real family. In July 2012, she was sentenced to 12 years in prison. The hospital had video surveillance, but at the time it was not working. Friends and family assumed shed gone elsewhere to give birth to the baby, presumed to be the daughter of her on-again, off-again boyfriend Robert Nance. North Carolina Department of Correction spokeswoman Pam Walker said officials have tried unsuccessfully to reach Pettway several times. Carlina White said she became skeptical of her past after Pettway could never provide her with a birth certificate. She was convicted for kidnapping Carlina White in 2012. [8], In 1987, New York City Police Department detectives questioned a woman in Baltimore, who witnesses had identified as having been seen in the hospital, without apparent result. Ms White traced her true mother after finding a photo of herself on the website of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. In her plea agreement, Pettway told the court how she had caught a train from her home in Bridgeport, Connecticut, to New York, where she snatched the 19-day-old from Harlem Hospital, after the baby was brought there with a fever by her parents. A North Carolina woman accused of snatching a newborn from a New York hospital more than two decades ago has been indicted on a kidnapping charge. But no one ever came forward, and the parents had to wait 23 years before gaining some closure. She called the center's hotline and was able to contact her birth family. [16] Her lawyers had asked for leniency, saying Pettway had been severely depressed after suffering from multiple miscarriages and stillbirths. This was when Netty was pregnant and needed health insurance. It's believed that she is incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution in Aliceville, Alabama, to complete her term. [3] A guard said a woman matching the suspect's description left the hospital at 3:30am, and that no infant was visible, although the baby could have been concealed in the heavyset woman's smock. It was wonderful, she didnt even seem like a stranger, she just fit right in, Whites biological grandmother Elizabeth White said. NCMEC reached out to Joy White and Carl Tyson through email just before Christmas 2011. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? Plus, you can learn more about the dangers lurking out there from the comfort of your own home. Pettway did not enter a plea at her arraignment at the U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan, where she faced between 20 years and life in prison for kidnapping. Biological family of Carlina White doesn't believe confessed kidnapper is sorry. With NYPD unable to track her down, Carlina was raised in Bridgeport, Conn., under the name Nejdra Nance by a woman named Ann Pettway. The lack of a birth certificate was one of the things that made Carlina White suspicious that something was not right. A family member worked with authorities to arrange Pettway's surrender. The Mountbatten-Windsors have been recastagain. 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. White, who had been brought to the hospital with a fever by her concerned parents at 19 days old and was hooked up to an IV. Well, she had on a nurse's uniform that night, and prior to that, she had spent 2-3 weeks in the hospital. Prosecutors increased their recommended sentence to 20 years, saying they had uncovered new facts about the case. I'm here to right my wrong," she said in court. She then reached out to the organization, which put her in touch with her birth parents. Pettway posed as a nurse, took the baby from the couple and pretended to take her for treatment. In 2005, White became pregnant. Authorities say a woman dressed as a nurse abducted a newborn Carlina White on Aug. 4, 1987 from a crib at Harlem Hospital in New York City. By Andrea Park. "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. published October 18, 2020. Pettway served her sentence in the Federal Correctional Institution, Aliceville in Alabama until she was released on April 14, 2021. If they don't accept it, it's understandable. 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When Netty was 10 years old, Ann gave birth to a son, and the children were raised as siblings. A woman posing as a nurse later revealed to be Ann Pettway took White and raised her as her own child, renaming her Nejdra "Netty" Nance. The woman who raised White told authorities that she tried to create a fake birth certificate for her, renaming her Nejdra Nance, but was unable to create a fake document that appeared real, according to court documents. Later that evening, in a state of shock, White confronted Pettway, who broke down and confessed that she was not White's biological mother. According to records from the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Pettway is still serving her sentence in New York, but she won't be serving all 12 years of it. Ann Pettway, 51, had pleaded guilty to kidnapping in February and offered details of the 1987 kidnapping. Carlina Renae White was raised as Nejdra "Netty" Nance by Annugetta "Ann" Pettway in Bridgeport, Connecticut, just 45 miles from where her parents had lived. For this, she required her birth certificate, something that Ann was never able to produce. As the stolen infant's real mother wept in the federal court in . "If I had all that anger in me it would be me who would suffer and it would stop me from living.". ", In court, Carlina White's mother, Joy White, said she cried for days after her child was kidnapped and "wondered if she was being fed, washed and loved.". Of all the missing children cases in Episode 6 of Unsolved Mysteries Volume 2, only one has a happy ending: the case of Carlina White, who was eventually reunited with her family. The last time White spoke publicly was at the 2014 Crimes Against Children Conference. She passed herself off as a nurse, and even the other nurses belived her. He had just managed to doze off when the phone rang. 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