CARLINA RENAE WHITE - 3 months old when Kidnapped in 1987 - Harlem, New York (USA) - 04/08/87

**Twiglet** Fri Jan 21, 2011 7:02 am

Daily Mail

20 January 2011

'I never gave up looking for her': Mother's joy as she is reunited with daughter who was kidnapped as a baby in 1987

A mother's 23-year nightmare is finally over after she was reunited with her daughter - who was kidnapped as a baby in 1987.
Carlina White, now 23, was last seen by her parents when she was just three weeks old at Harlem Hospital in 1987, where she was lying ill with a 104 degree fever.
Her mother Joy was just 16 years old at the time. When she went to see her baby the next morning, Carlina was gone.

Now mother and daughter have been reunited in a case charged with so much emotion that it will give hope to the parents of other missing children - such as those of missing British girl Madeleine McCann, who disappeared in 2007.

'We ate and talked and got to know each other... I feel great,' Miss White said.

'I can sleep! I can definitely sleep now because this has been on my mind for so many years', she added. 'I never gave up looking for her.'

Carlina, who was raised as Njedra Nance, had suspicions growing up that she was not biologically related to the family that raised her in Bridgeport, Connecticut. She said she had never been able to find her birth certificate.

The young woman now living in Georgia was confounded enough to look on the National Center of Missing and Exploited Children website where she found a photo of a girl called 'Carlina Renae White'.
She contacted the organisation and on January 4 they contacted Miss White, forwarding her a photograph of Carlina taken when she was still a baby by the family she had been brought up by.
Miss White said she recognised her daughter instantly.

'I was screaming, I was so excited,' she said. 'As soon as I saw those pictures I said, "That's my daughter," I saw myself in her'.
Ms White was tested to see if she was Carlina's biological mother and Carl Tyson was swabbed to see if he was the missing woman's biological father.
DNA test results confirmed yesterday that they are related and have finally found their missing daughter.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1348759/Carlina-White-reunited-mother-kidnapped-baby-1987.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

**Twiglet** Fri Jan 21, 2011 7:18 am

Carlina's images from Missing Kids Website.

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The photo on the right is a composite image of Carlina may look like at age 19.

Image of Carlina Now

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**Tezza** Fri Jan 21, 2011 8:06 am

Website includes details of vital statistics at time of disappearance and details of disappearance.

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/w/white_carlina.html

**Twiglet** Sat Jan 22, 2011 12:57 am

Sky News

21 January 2011

Kidnapped Baby Finds Family 23 Years Later‎

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Kidnapped-Baby-From-Harlem-Hospital-In-New-York-Is-Reunited-With-Her-Family-23-Years-Later/Article/201101315902542?lpos=World_News_First_Home_Article_Teaser_Region_1&lid=ARTICLE_15902542_Kidnapped_Baby_From_Harlem_Hospital_In_New_York_Is_Reunited_With_Her_Family_23_Years_Later

**Twiglet** Sat Jan 22, 2011 1:02 am

Daily Mail

21 January 2011

Reunited after 23 years: Parents' joy after embracing daughter who was snatched from hospital when just 18 days old

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Together again after two decades: Carla White with parents Joy White and Carl Tyson reunited in New York

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Grown up: Carlina now with her own daughter, six-year-old Samani

Living under the name Nejdra Nance in Bridgeport, Connecticut, she had long suspected she was at least adopted.
Pettway, said to be a drug addict who also exposed Carlina to weapons lying around, could never provide the girl with a genuine birth certificate.
Eventually, when pressed with questions, Pettway lied and said the kidnap victim’s real mother was a drug addict who had given her up.
Later Carlina found a baby picture of herself when she visted a website that linked to the Centre for Missing and Exploited
‘It was like looking at a picture of my daughter,’ Carlina said. ‘I thought, maybe this could be it.’
But now, as she is finally reunited with her real family, those years of pain have begun to melt away.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1349243/Reunited-mother-24-years-The-baby-snatched-hospital-18-days-old.html

**Twiglet** Sat Jan 22, 2011 1:12 am

Guardian

21 January 2011

Family reunion for US woman kidnapped as a baby
Carlina White, who was taken from a New York hospital in 1987, uncovered the truth of her own baby-kidnapping

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/21/carlina-white-kidnapping-baby-reunited-family

**Tezza** Sun Feb 12, 2012 4:28 am

The Telegraph

New York woman pleads guilty to kidnapping baby 23 years ago

A woman who snatched a newborn baby from a New York City hospital in 1987, then raised the child as her own for more than two decades, has pleaded guilty to a kidnapping charge.

9:23AM GMT 11 Feb 2012

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9075958/New-York-woman-pleads-guilty-to-kidnapping-baby-23-years-ago.html

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