Carlina White

Lloyd Morgan, 4, was shot dead in the Bronx on July 22, 2012. (credit: Facebook)

WCBS 880 Audiofile: July – The Month In Sound

It’s been a violent month, both here in New York and across the country, and that’s how we begin our July Audiofile of the big stories these past 31 days.

2012/07/31

Ann Pettway (L), Carlina White (R) (credit: CBS 2)

Ann Pettway Gets 12 Years For Snatching Baby From Harlem Hospital In 1987

At Manhattan Federal Court, the judge said that what Pettway did was “not a crime of greed or vengeance, but was a crime of selfishness.”

2012/07/30

Ann Pettway Pleads Guilty In Decades-Old Harlem Kidnapping Case

Ann Pettway turned herself in to the FBI last January and was charged with felony kidnapping after admitting to abducting Carlina White in 1987.

2012/02/10

U.S. Attorney Expects Guilty Plea From Ann Pettway, Charged With Kidnapping Baby 24 Years Ago

Ann Pettway faces up to 20 years in prison, but Carlina White’s family said she should serve the same amount of time their girl was missing.

2012/02/09

Woman Charged With Snatching Baby In Harlem In 1987 Enters Plea

Ann Pettway firmly responded “yes sir” when a judge asked if she was pleading not guilty to a kidnapping charge Thursday. She is charged with kidnapping Carlina White in 1987.

2011/02/24

Carlina White Then and Now (credit: CBS)

NYC Mom Wants Relationship With Long-Lost Daughter

Joy White said that she and Carlina White were like strangers and that she wants to spend time with her so they can get to know each other.

2011/02/08

Conn. Agency Questioned Identity Of Kidnapped Girl

Years before a widely publicized reunion between a girl who was snatched from a New York hospital and her birth mother, Connecticut’s child protection agency had doubts about the true identity of the girl, who was raised under a false name in Bridgeport, a department spokesman said Saturday.

2011/01/29

Suspect In ’87 Harlem Baby Snatching Held Without Bail

The North Carolina woman accused of kidnapping a baby from Harlem Hospital 23 years ago has been ordered held without bail on kidnapping charges.

2011/01/24

FBI: Woman Who Raised Stolen NY Baby Held in Conn.

The woman who raised Carlina White (pictured-left), who was kidnapped from a Harlem hospital two decades ago, was taken into custody Sunday on a parole violation charge, the FBI said.

2011/01/23

Family Speaks Out After Kidnapped Daughter Returns

White told relatives she was taken to Connecticut and raised in an abusive home by a woman identified by police sources as Mary Pettway.

2011/01/20

Woman Kidnapped As Infant In ’87 Tracks Down Birth Parents

It sounds like something out of a movie — a baby kidnapped from a hospital ward more than two decades ago. She’s now 23 and recently down her birth parents after being raised by another family.

2011/01/19

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