Trafficking Tragedies: New York UPDATED

A new TV interview yesterday showcased the sad fallout from the New York hospital kidnapping case of Carlina White.

It is too soon to see how this relationship will evolve, but we hope both mother and daughter find peace and love with each other some day.

Despair of mother reunited with daughter after 23 years as a conflict of loyalty and money issues keep them apart again

[The Daily Mail 2/8/11 by Daily Mail Reporter]

Update: “The woman who was snatched from Harlem Hospital as a newborn in 1987 and raised under a phony name — only to be reunited with her real parents this January — will back the “fake mom” who reportedly abused her and was charged with her kidnapping, a defense lawyer revealed yesterday.

Carlina White has agreed to testify on behalf of Ann Pettway and appeal for leniency if Pettway is convicted, public defender Robert Baum said.”

“Pettway often abused White when she was growing up — once pummeling her with a shoe so hard that it left an imprint on her face, The Post reported this January.

White’s birth parents, Carl Tyson and Joy White, attended the hearing but left the Manhattan federal courthouse without commenting.

They lost her after leaving her at the hospital for treatment of a high fever when she was just 19 days old.

Pettway — who claims she was given the baby by a drug-addicted woman — raised her under the name Nejdra Nance in Bridgeport, Conn.

But at 16, White got pregnant and asked Pettway for a birth certificate so she could get health care. Pettway could not provide one and admitted she wasn’t White’s biological mom.

White was reunited with her birth parents in January after tracking them down through the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. ”

Gal set to defend her ‘kidnapper mom’
[New York Post 5/3/11 by Bruce Golding]

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