N.C. woman faces federal kidnapping charges |
Written by David Horn
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Monday, 24 January 2011 09:55 |
(RALEIGH) -- The FBI says a Raleigh woman who raised a child kidnapped from a New York hospital two decades ago is in custody in Connecticut. Ann Pettway was on probation for a 2010 embezzlement conviction in Wake County.
North Carolina correction officials had tried to contact Pettway after discovering investigators wanted to question her in the 1987 abduction of infant Carlina White, who's now grown and was recently reunited with her long-lost family.
Pettway is facing federal kidnapping charges and makes her first court appearance in Connecticut on Monday. North Carolina officials are not sure when Pettway might be extradited back to the state.
Carlina White was just 19 days old when her parents took her to Harlem Hospital in the middle of the night with a high fever. Joy White and Carl Tyson said a woman who looked like a nurse had comforted them. The couple left the hospital to rest, but their baby was missing when they returned.
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