Having been raised under the mantra "follow your dreams" and being told they were special, they tend to … In an act of desperation, she abducted infant Carlina from a hospital in Harlem and raised her as her own. Carlina is 33 years old. Now, in October 2020, a new batch of Unsolved Mysteries episodes have arrived on the streaming service and have left viewers with plenty of questions. Pettway acquired a forged Connecticut birth certificate, which White attempted to use as proof of identity so she could obtain the health insurance, but the officials told her the document was forged. [2] A guard said a woman matching the suspect's description left the hospital at 3:30 am, and that no infant was visible, although the baby could have been concealed in the heavyset woman's smock.[5]. [9][10] White stated, "I just hope that the officials be able to get her in their hands, so we can just hear her side of the story now. For years, Carlina was living with a woman she thought was her mother, who was in fact her kid… Golden Kamuy season 4: Renewal and release date rumours explained, {{#media.media_details}} [17] As of 2014, she continues to have a relationship with her biological parents. Pettway and White later moved to Atlanta, Georgia. After comparing baby photos of "Nejdra" to Carlina's, and with White sporting the same birthmark on her arm as baby Carlina, the NYPD contacted Joy and Carl for DNA samples. Her parents filed a $100 million suit against the hospital in 1989, and obtained a $750,000 settlement in 1993. [2] The baby disappeared during the early morning, around 2 am when the shifts were changing. [12] On February 17, 2011, a federal grand jury indicted Pettway on the kidnapping charge.[13]. In 1987, Carlina White, the daughter of Joy White and Carl Tyson was admitted to the Harlem Hospital Centre in New York. However, several months later, she contacted both of her biological parents individually, having had a bit more time to process the situation; she later publicly stated that the issue over settlement funds was "just a misunderstanding." The episode also references a girl who disappeared as a baby, Carlina White, who miraculously reappeared more than 20 years later. She had swallowed fluid during her delivery and had an infection. The hospital had video surveillance, but at the time it was not working. [15] Pettway is serving her sentence in the Federal Correctional Institution, Aliceville in Alabama. Carlina Renae White was born at Harlem Hospital on the afternoon of July 15, a healthy eight pounds. She called the center's hotline and was able to contact her birth family. The revelation was not entirely surprising to White as she had begun to notice that she did not share physical traits with Pettway. "[4], Pettway turned herself in to the FBI office at Bridgeport on the morning of January 23, 2011. During a shift change, a woman dressed as a nurse abducted little Carlina. The case represents the longest known gap in a non-parental abduction in which the victim was reunited with the family in the United States. Abducted from Harlem Hospital in 1987, Carlina White is now focused on the family she has been away from for the past 23 years. Pettway lied and told White that she had been abandoned by a drug addict. White grew suspicious during her teens that Pettway was not her biological mother, because of her inability to provide a birth certificate. Carlina Renae White (born July 15, 1987), also known as Nejdra "Netty" Nance, is an American woman who solved her own kidnapping case and was reunited with her biological parents 23 years after being abducted as an infant from the Harlem Hospital Center in New York City. Upon being reunited with her biological parents, Carlina White's attorney advised her to ask them about the cash settlement from the hospital. Carlina White was just 19 days old when she was abducted from Harlem Hospital Center by a woman pretending to be a nurse. Carlina's parents separated the year after the abduction and remarried. [1] Joy White later stated that there had been a falling out over the issue of the money.