I realize I’m late with this story, but bear with me and you’ll see why I’m writing this so late.
Carl Tyson, the father of kidnap victim Carlina White Tyson, leaves the US Federal Courthouse in New York yesterday after an arraignment hearing for Ann Pettway.
Carlina White Tyson, now 23, was 19 days old when she was allegedly snatched by Pettway from Harlem Hospital twenty-three years ago.
Carlina was raised as “Nejdra Nance” in Bridgeport, Connecticut, just 45 minutes away from where her parents lived. Tyson and Joy White, Carlina’s parents, separated a year after she was abducted. They both married other people and raised their own families. In 1992, Tyson and White were awarded $750,000 in damages by Harlem Hospital.
Carlina was reunited with her biological parents last week after she logged onto a missing children’s website and found baby pictures that resembled herself and her 5-year-old daughter, Samani.
“I found out while I was pregnant. That lady told me she wasn’t my mother,” said Carlina of the woman who posed as a phony nurse when she stole Carlina from the hospital at 3:00 a.m.
The troubling aspect of this case is that Carlina reached out to Oprah Winfrey last year in hopes of finding her birth parents, but she received no reply. We all know that if Carlina was a white child with blond hair and blue eyes, Oprah would have responded personally, and this case would have been resolved before Christmas.
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Caption: Joy White, center, birth mother of Carlina White, leave a NY hotel with her sister-in-law, Regina Tyson, right, and an unidentified woman, prior to attending a hearing for Ann Pettway, the woman who abducted her daughter, Carlina white Tyson, from Harlem Hospital twenty three years ago.
