Though White distanced herself from her birth parents for some time after their initial reunion due to the overwhelming media attention and her complicated feelings for the family that raised her, she told New York in late that they were on good terms and spoke occasionally on the phone. She told the magazine of her plans to revert to her birth name, but said she would still go by Netty, since the name is "not what the Pettway family gave me or what the White family gave me.
It's what I gave myself. For her part, Pettway turned herself in to authorities in Jan. She apologized for her crime at her sentencing hearing in , when her lawyers reportedly argued that she "was motivated not by greed or desire to do harm, but by a desperate desire for a child, combined with depression and grief over her failed pregnancies and significant mental illness.
Though White didn't appear at Pettway's trial, her birth parents gave emotional testimonies at the sentencing. 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. United States. Type keyword s to search. Today's Top Stories. The New Power Dressing. A description of the supposed nurse was given by the parents, and in fact, the security guard did say that he saw someone similar leave the premises around am.
However, there was no sign of an infant. Unfortunately, the surveillance cameras in the hospital were also dysfunctional, and no leads were generated. That year, the City of New York witnessed its first infant kidnapping from a hospital. In , the kidnapping victim was pregnant with her daughter. In order to seek heath insurance, she asked Pettway for a birth certificate.
There was no paperwork to follow her such as a birth certificate or social security card. In her late teens she became suspicious of who she was.
Then, Ann confessed. But she lied as she told Netty that her actual mother was a drug addict who abandoned her. She looked up cases from her birth year, and then saw a photo of a baby, along with a rendition of what the child would look like at The photo of Carlina White stood out to Netty, who became convinced that she was the baby that went missing in DNA evidence also proved that Netty and Carlina were one and the same.
The statement elicited nods from White. I just wanted to get that out there, that we found our daughter. We're happy; we reunited. I wanted to share that with the world. It really hurts me that it's about money.
The elevator in the Bronx apartment building shuttles back to the ground floor. The ride is slow and disorienting. There's no signal of what floor you're on, or if you're even making progress.
Eventually, the doors swing open, spilling out into a wide lobby. Here there is another banner. It is framed by two photographs of Joy White, Carl Tyson and their biological daughter, Carlina, reunited after 23 years. Right by the door, there are several papers taped to a window. A few announce apartment news. A third banner hangs above. Joy White is clutching the cheeks of her year-old biological daughter on one side, and they're both smiling.
The other end has a picture of Carlina White, or perhaps Nejdra Nance, all alone. More News.
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