Woman Charged for Taking Baby From Hospital

Ann Pettway admitted that she stole an infant from a Manhattan hospital in 1987. She has pleaded guilty to a federal kidnapping charge. She turned herself in January 2011 at the FBI office in Bridgeport, Connecticut. her trial was supposed to start Monday but the Judge has moved it to July 6.She could face life in prison. Pettway suffered many miscarriages. She abducted Carlina Renae White, and attempted to make false birth certificates but never was successful. Whites mother testified that she brought Carlina in to the hospital at 19 days old for a fever and went home to rest. When she came back her baby was gone. Carilina said she never felt like Pettway was her mother and spent last year tracking down her birth parents.

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