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Carlina White (pictured above), the woman taken from a New York hospital as an infant and raised by her kidnapper for 23 years, thought that her birth mother was a drug addict who had given her up, according to a child welfare official in Connecticut.
White said the woman who kidnapped and raised her, Ann Pettway (pictured below), told her that a drug-addicted Mother had given her to Pettway as a baby in 1987.
Pettway surrendered to police last month and faces kidnapping charges. She has confessed to taking White from the Harlem Hospital as an infant in August 1987, according to the FBI.
White, who is now 23, has reconnected with her biological family.
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It is no suprise that Pettway told White the lie about her birth Mother as part of her criminal plan to disconnect the girl from her true past; Pettway did everything possible to keep the girl from learning that her birth parents, Joy White and Carl Tyson, were in fact searching for her.
A $10,000 reward offered for the return of the baby went uncollected.
Luckily for White, who was raised by Pettway in Atlanta under the name of Nejdra Nance, suspicions grew that something wasn't right when Pettway couldn't provide her with a copy of her birth certificate. White also noticed she didn't look like anyone else in Pettway's family.
Periodic checks of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children website by White revealed a baby photo that looked a lot like her. By some miracle, she was able to contact Joy White, and Mother and Daughter were reunited after DNA tests were conducted.
The Carlina White saga of solving her own kidnapping, with its uplifting conclusion, has all the makings of a Hollywood movie.
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