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US woman solves own baby kidnap case
The prime victim of what was originally a high-profile New York baby-snatching case reunited with her mother after figuring out that her own family was not her own.
Abducted from a hospital in Harlem in August 1987 when she was just 19 days old, Carlina White always had a sense she did not belong to her family, police said, and began her own inquiries.
According to police sources, White (raised Nejdra Nance in Connecticut) had long held suspicions as she did not resemble any of her family, and suspected the woman who raised
After starting her own investigations, Carlina contacted the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and discovered a photo of a baby on its website – which she believed to be her.
The centre helped White, who called her biological mother on 4 January. |At that point, the New York Police Department took over the investigation and arranged for
But White had not waited for the result. She held her first reunion with her mother last Friday and returned again to New York from Georgia on Wednesday. “I'm overwhelmed. I'm just happy. It's like a movie; it's all brand new to me," White told the New York Daily News.
White was originally abducted from the hospital on 4 August 1987 after being taken there with a fever by her mother. At the time, there were reports of a woman wearing nurse's clothing who had consoled the mother but who later picked up the baby and walked out of the building.
Although the abduction made headlines, investigators could not find a breakthrough and the case went cold. ‘Nejdra Nance’ was then raised in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and later moved to Atlanta in Georgia.
