{"id":22900,"date":"2012-07-31T13:52:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T10:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=22900"},"modified":"2012-07-31T13:52:27","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T10:52:27","slug":"child-kidnapper-jailed-after-raising-child-as-own-22900","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/child-kidnapper-jailed-after-raising-child-as-own-22900\/","title":{"rendered":"Child Kidnapper Jailed After Raising Child As Own"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A woman who snatched a newborn baby from a New York hospital in 1987 and raised the child as her own has been jailed for 12 years.<\/h1>\n

Ann Pettway, who pleaded guilty to the abduction in February, took three-week-old Carlina White from the Harlem hospital emergency department where she had been taken with a high fever.<\/p>\n

Her real parents did not see her for 23 years until Carlina herself – who was brought up in Connecticut under the name Nejdra Nance – became suspicious and discovered her identity while browsing the website of the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children.<\/p>\n

In sentencing Pettway, Judge Kevin Castel said the defendant had been mentally ill and deeply depressed after three miscarriages when she decided to dress up as a nurse and carry out the abduction.<\/p>\n

But he added that she had “inflicted a parent’s worst nightmare”.<\/p>\n

Pettway, who had agreed to plead guilty in return for a more lenient sentence, apologised for her actions and said she still loved the woman she raised.<\/p>\n

“All I can do now is ask forgiveness from her and her parents. It may not sound correct on paper but I am hopelessly sorry,” she wrote.<\/p>\n

“My action led to such a huge loss for her parents, but there is nothing I can do to right this wrong that I committed.”<\/p>\n

Carlina’s birth parents, who were reunited with their daughter in January 2011, said the sentence was too little for the years of anguish inflicted by Pettway.<\/p>\n

“I’m broken into a million pieces,” Carlina’s mother, Joy White, told the court. “My daughter’s here, but she’s not home yet.”<\/p>\n

Father, Carl Tyson, said: “For 23 years, Ann, you had me suffering. You put a stone in my heart.<\/p>\n

“I know you have your family and friends here,” he told Pettway. “But they don’t know what you’ve done to me.”<\/p>\n

Outside the court, he added: “I wasn’t able to take my daughter to school, take my daughter to day care, watch my daughter get on the bus and you know, have birthday parties with my daughter.”<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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