Short Story Of Abducted: The Carlina White
Abducted: The Carlina White Story Carlina Renae White, also known as Nejdra Nance is an American woman who solved her own kidnapping case and 23 years later was reunited with her biological parents. Her case represents the longest known gap in a non-parental abduction where the victim was reunited with the family in the United States. When Carlina was only nine days old, her parents, Joy White and Carl Tyson, took her to the hospital because of the 104 degree fever she was running on august 4, 1987. She had swallowed fluid during her delivery and now had an infection. A woman reportedly dressed as a nurse had comforted the parents at the hospital, but was not an employee of the hospital. The woman had been seen around the hospital three weeks
prior to the abduction. Baby Carlina disappeared during the early morning around 2 a.m. when shifts were changing. There was no surveillance because at that time the cameras were not working. There was no way of knowing what the woman who abducted the baby looked like except for what was described by Joy and Carl. One of the guards said a woman matching the suspect’s description left the hospital around 3:30 a.m. and that no infant was visible. There were many flyers with Carlina’s picture on them distributed nationwide, but with no success of locating her. Her parents filed a one hundred million suit against the hospital in 1989 and obtained a seven hundred and fifty dollar settlement in 1992. Carlina White was raised as Nejdra Nance by Ann Pettway in Bridgeport, Connecticut, just 45 miles from where her parents had lived. After graduating high school, Ann and Carlina later moved to Atlanta, Georgia. Nejdra (Carlina) grew suspicious during her teen years that Ann was not her birth mother because of their lack of physical resemblance and her inability to obtain documents such as a social security card. When she asked about her birth certificate, Ann tried to give many excuses as to why she didn’t have one. Ann Pettway tried to forge a certificate, but was unable to create one that looked authentic. At age twenty three, Nejdra turned to websites where she found that the images of the kidnapped Carlina looked like infant photos of her herself and her daughter. She called the centers hotline and was able to contact her birth family. DNA profiling confirmed in January 2011 that Nejdra Nance was the missing Carlina White.
prior to the abduction. Baby Carlina disappeared during the early morning around 2 a.m. when shifts were changing. There was no surveillance because at that time the cameras were not working. There was no way of knowing what the woman who abducted the baby looked like except for what was described by Joy and Carl. One of the guards said a woman matching the suspect’s description left the hospital around 3:30 a.m. and that no infant was visible. There were many flyers with Carlina’s picture on them distributed nationwide, but with no success of locating her. Her parents filed a one hundred million suit against the hospital in 1989 and obtained a seven hundred and fifty dollar settlement in 1992. Carlina White was raised as Nejdra Nance by Ann Pettway in Bridgeport, Connecticut, just 45 miles from where her parents had lived. After graduating high school, Ann and Carlina later moved to Atlanta, Georgia. Nejdra (Carlina) grew suspicious during her teen years that Ann was not her birth mother because of their lack of physical resemblance and her inability to obtain documents such as a social security card. When she asked about her birth certificate, Ann tried to give many excuses as to why she didn’t have one. Ann Pettway tried to forge a certificate, but was unable to create one that looked authentic. At age twenty three, Nejdra turned to websites where she found that the images of the kidnapped Carlina looked like infant photos of her herself and her daughter. She called the centers hotline and was able to contact her birth family. DNA profiling confirmed in January 2011 that Nejdra Nance was the missing Carlina White.