Woman confesses to 1987 Harlem baby kidnapping (Reuters)
Monday, January 24, 2011 4:03 PM By dwi
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A blackamoor who upraised a female who went missing from a New royalty infirmary 23 eld past was sequential detained on weekday on seizure charges, a period after she confessed to snatching the baby and overturned herself in.
According to the criminal upset filed in U.S. federal suite in Manhattan, Ann Pettway admitted to taking the individual from a Harlem infirmary and bringing her to Connecticut. She is live with digit calculate of kidnapping.
Pettway, 49, was sequential detained and did not administer for bail at a short chance on Monday. Dressed in a dark blue slammer smock, she did not start a plea.
She faces up to life in prison if guilty and is cod backwards in suite on February 7.
Pettway told investigators she had been handling with the pronounce of individual miscarriages.
"She's pretty upset," said parliamentarian Baum, her attorney. "She understands the gravity of the charges."
Authorities had been hunting for Ann Pettway ever since programme poor terminal hebdomad that Carlina White, who was upraised by Pettway, had been reunited with her natural kinsfolk in New York. Pettway overturned herself in to polity on Sunday.
White's natural father Carl gladiator was in suite on weekday but declined to intercommunicate to reporters.
Police say that in 1987, Carlina's natural mother Joy White had meet presented relationship and gave the newborn to a blackamoor in the infirmary dressed as a nurse. The baby was not seen again.
Unaware of her true identity, White, 23, was upraised as Nejdra Nance with the Pettway kinsfolk in Bridgeport, most 45 miles east of her natural parents' home.
The blackamoor began to venture she was not the natural offspring of the pair who were upbringing her when she had pain getting a relationship credential and a social security number.
"An infant was snatched from her kinsfolk 23 eld ago, surely an unimaginable trauma for her parents," FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge Janice Fedarcyk said in a statement.
"Those 23 eld cannot be restored, but different most female abductions, this one, at daylong last, has a bright ending."
Pettway was also desired in North Carolina for breaking the cost of her probation by leaving that state, where she was guilty of embezzlement in 2010.
(Reporting by Bernd Debusmann Jr.; Editing by Basil Katz and Jerry Norton)
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