Woman Abducted as Infant in 1987 Meets Family

[Tulip]

Re: Woman Abducted as Infant in 1987 Meets Family

I'm all for innocent until proven guilty Natral, but every time somebody acts like they have lost their whole mind doesn't mean that they are really crazy but sometimes just evil to the bone.

Now, I don't think anybody on either side is denying that this lady raised the girl. Is there a chance that somebody else did the actualy kidnapping? Yes.

But the story is so disjointed that I can't even really tell what alll was going on. The girl was in Georgia, but the mom was in North Carolina or wherever she's from. Who was the girl staying with? Then on the news this morning they show the last apt the girl and the woman lived in in Norcross and the house they lived in before in Snellville with some man. How does all that mix in to living in Connecticut and wherever she stole from the store she worked for? When did all that happen?

Whatever the case, it seems obvious the girl was bounced from pillar to post. Also, we all know the true character of each member of the family we grew up with. It's the type of thing that cannot be hidden even if it is never discussed.

She wasn't too crazy to go to the pawn shop for some getaway money. The girl probably got courage to finally try to look up her really family because she knew fake mom was out of state and wouldn't be coming back any time soon.

[Yuriatin]

Re: Woman Abducted as Infant in 1987 Meets Family

<span style="font-style: italic">&quot;... You guys are being unreasonable harsh ...&quot;!</span>

<span style="font-style: italic">&quot;... reasons for a woman to kidnap a baby ...&quot;!</span>

Not in this case brah. And even if there were, none of them would be excusable or understandable. Mek smaddi kidnap wanna fi yuh pikni ...

Besides, she's since day, confessed.

Neut - mi luv yuh like cook food put is peer madness yuh talkin' pan dah one yah.


<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Natral</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Gen</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The witch who kidnapped her likes the &quot;petty crimes&quot; life.


Maybe now she will know wah jail life is about </div></div>

You guys are being unreasonable harsh,there are various reasons for a woman to kidnap a baby,she may have recently lost a child herself,in this case she raised the child as her own,her parenting skills leave a lot to be desired but we should reserve judgement until the full facts emerge about the state of the womans mind at the time of the kidnapping.


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[Gen]

Re: Woman Abducted as Infant in 1987 Meets Family

no. Harsh would be the birth family getting somebody to smoke the woman before law enforecement started to hunt her down

people in this country need fi stop walk and TEEF people pikney, if dem nah teef dem from di pikney dem lawn dem a tek knife fi cut out the baby from the womb \o/

No doubt her defense lawyer is going to argue there was no surveillance video in the hospital that day, but the birth mother has already identified petway as the &quot;fake nurse&quot; that tried to comfort her that day

[Stormmey]

Re: Woman Abducted as Infant in 1987 Meets Family

I don't care what her state of mind was....would forgive her if my kid had a superb life....she treated her horribly

[Yuriatin]

Re: Woman Abducted as Infant in 1987 Meets Family

January 24, 2011

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Woman Admits to Kidnapping Baby in 1987</span></span>
By JOSEPH BERGER and MICHAEL WILSON

A woman accused of kidnapping a 3-week-old baby girl from Harlem Hospital 23 years ago <span style="color: #FF0000">has told authorities that she did so because she had suffered several miscarriages and “was having difficulty having her own children,”</span> according to a criminal complaint filed on Monday in Federal District Court in Manhattan.

“She did not believe she would ever be able to be a parent,” the complaint said.

The complaint was the first indication that the woman, Ann Pettway, 44, also known as Annugetta Pettway, had confessed. Ms. Pettway had raised the girl, Carlina White, in Connecticut and Georgia, the authorities said, giving her a new name: Nejdra Nance.

According to the complaint, Ms. Pettway, in an interview with the Federal Bureau of Investigation after she turned herself into the police on Sunday in Bridgeport, Conn., said that on Aug. 4, 1987, she went to Harlem Hospital in Manhattan “where she saw the victim.”

Carlina had been taken to the hospital by her parents, Joy White and Carl Tyson, because she had a high fever. The parents later told the police that a woman in a nurse’s uniform had spoken to them in consoling fashion. Several hours later, on the morning of Aug. 5, Carlina was discovered to be missing from the hospital’s pediatric ward.

“Pettway took the victim without consent and brought her outside the hospital,” the complaint said. “When no one stopped Pettway, Pettway took the victim on a train to Pettway’s home in Bridgeport.”

The complaint, based on a statement by Maria Johnson, an F.B.I. special agent who works for the Crime Against Children Squad, accused Ms. Pettway of kidnapping and transporting Carlina White in interstate commerce. She was scheduled to be arraigned Monday afternoon on those charges.

Ms. Pettway said that she was “sorry and knows that she has caused a lot of pain,” according to the complaint.

In recent weeks, Carlina White reunited with her biological parents. News that she had surfaced touched off a storm of national attention and a search for Ms. Pettway by federal authorities and the police in several states.

Ms. Pettway’s lawyer, Robert M. Baum from the federal public defender’s office, said he would forego requesting bail until a future date.

“She’s very upset,” Mr. Baum said. As for the confession described in the complaint, Mr. Baum said, “We need to take a good look at the circumstances surrounding those statements.” He declined to address the statements further.
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“She cares deeply about Carlina,” he said. “She feels badly. She’s very upset. She’s expressed concern about her family, including Carlina.”</span>

He said he would investigate Ms. Pettway’s medical history, including any past miscarriages.

On Friday, an arrest warrant for Ms. Pettway for a probation violation was issued in North Carolina, <span style="color: #FF0000">where she had been convicted of attempted embezzlement.</span>

Detective Keith Bryant of the Bridgeport Police Department said Ms. Pettway turned herself in to the F.B.I. on Sunday morning. Only afterward was she charged in the kidnapping. Pamela Walker, a spokeswoman for the North Carolina Department of Corrections, said on Sunday evening that her agency would defer to the federal authorities and their more serious charges.

The 23-year search for the mysterious woman in the nurse’s uniform came to an accelerated end. On Saturday just after noon, Ms. Pettway went to Joe Davis Pawnbroker in Bridgeport, Detective Bryant said. When she left, the clerk, who had seen her picture on television, called the police, who conducted a fruitless search. Ms. Pettway apparently walked about a mile and a half to Stratford. But after she, too, saw herself on television, she contacted the Bridgeport police, according to a law enforcement official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the continuing investigation.

Later, F.B.I. officials arranged for her to turn herself in to the federal office in Bridgeport on Sunday morning, according to another law enforcement official.

Carlina White was abducted when she was 19 days old. According to the police account and information gleaned by reporters, the little girl was taken first to Bridgeport, then to Georgia. By her 16th birthday, she had begun to suspect that the woman who raised her was not her birth mother, partly because they did not resemble each other.

The F.B.I. complaint also said that several years ago, Carlina White was pregnant — she eventually had a daughter — and wanted to obtain prenatal care. She asked Mr. Pettway for her own birth certificate or other identification documents.

“Pettway told the victim that she did not have identification documents for the victim because the victim had been given to Pettway by a woman who used drugs,” the complaint said.

The information in the complaint is being submitted to the court to establish probable cause to hold Ms. Pettway in custody and does not include all the facts that the authorities know, the complaint states.

This month Ms. White turned to a Web site of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and there discovered a photograph that matched an infant photo of herself. She called Joy White, who referred the call to the New York police. DNA samples were taken, and Carlina White’s DNA was found to match samples taken from Joy White and Carl Tyson, who had separated years before.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/25/nyregion/25kidnap.html?_r=1&amp;hp=&amp;pagewanted=print

[CyberPhobic]

Re: Woman Abducted as Infant in 1987 Meets Family

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Yuri_</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-style: italic">&quot;... You guys are being unreasonable harsh ...&quot;!</span>

<span style="font-style: italic">&quot;... reasons for a woman to kidnap a baby ...&quot;!</span>

Not in this case brah. And even if there were, none of them would be excusable or understandable. Mek smaddi kidnap wanna fi yuh pikni ...

Besides, she's since day, confessed.

Neut - mi luv yuh like cook food put is peer madness yuh talkin' pan dah one yah.


<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Natral</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Gen</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The witch who kidnapped her likes the &quot;petty crimes&quot; life.


Maybe now she will know wah jail life is about </div></div>

You guys are being unreasonable harsh,there are various reasons for a woman to kidnap a baby,she may have recently lost a child herself,in this case she raised the child as her own,her parenting skills leave a lot to be desired but we should reserve judgement until the full facts emerge about the state of the womans mind at the time of the kidnapping.


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Tan dey a pay mind to fence man. Yuh nuh si sey a awwgyument himma look?

<span style="font-style: italic">Waitin fi mi </span>