She was returned to her parents23 years after she was first taken by her abductor, Ann Pettway, Carlina White or Netty, as she now goes by was reunited with her parents. To this day, she is the only child abducted by a non-family member to be returned to her biological family after such a long period of time.
Another woman, Lucy Brockington, was suspected at the time, but the police decided she had an alibi. There is still speculation that Brockington—who was picked out by a number of witnesses at the time— is the one who took Netty, giving her to Pettway later, but she has never been arrested in connection with this crime.
Getting pregnant in , she needed to find her documents in order to benefit from free prenatal care, but Pettway was unable to produce her birth certificate. Although the family did come together at first, the intense pressure of the media scrutiny and a misunderstanding over a trust fund that had once existed for Netty drove her away from her parents once again. The kidnapping of Carlina White gets mentioned in the show, and the story is quite bizarre. You can learn more about it in this article.
It turned out that she had gotten an infection since she had swallowed some fluid during the delivery. She was being given antibiotics intravenously. But late that night, baby Carlina disappeared. Little did the parents know that the nurse who was trying to console them was not even a hospital employee.
A more specific time range for the abduction was determined to be between am and am. 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. White told New York magazine in that while Pettway was somewhat distant, she was a responsible caregiver. All my friends used to say she was a cool mom. 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 , when White got pregnant and asked Pettway for her birth certificate so she could obtain health insurance.
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 told New York.
A few days later, Pettway confessed that she was not White's birth mother, but claimed White had been abandoned by her parents at birth.
When Pettway refused to offer any further information, White's suspicions grew, and she spent the next several years searching for stories of kidnappings in the Bridgeport area. She called the center's hotline in Dec. With the center's help, she was ultimately able to narrow down her search for her birth parents to two possible cases. 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 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.
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