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My name is Joy White.
I'm here to see Ann Pettway.
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Does she know you're coming?
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No.
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Park over there, I'll
put you through security.
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I was on my way to school
and my water broke.
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We almost didn't make it.
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What's your name, honey?
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Joy. Joy White.
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- And, Joy, how old are you?
- She's 16.
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And this is your
first pregnancy?
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Yes!
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- Name?
- Ann Pettway.
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You want to tell me
what happened, Ann?
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I started having pains,
so I came here.
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- Is this your first pregnancy?
- No!
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Is there anybody
you want us to call?
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- No. No! No!
- A family member?
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Scalpel.
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Push!
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- Push, now--come on!
- You're almost there!
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Scissors...
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Forceps...
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and suction, please.
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Big push!
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- I told you it was a girl.
- But I was sure!
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Your mom owes me
a chocolate cake now.
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- I always wanted a baby girl.
- Yeah?
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Don't nobody love a guy
like his baby girl.
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Isn't she beautiful?
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She looks just like you.
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She's got your eyes.
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What are we gonna call her?
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I am not naming
her after your mom.
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I guess Carl Jr
out of the question.
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Who says?
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Carlina Renae White.
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Daddy's little girl.
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We love you.
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No! I did everything right.
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Everything right!
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I didn't drink--I didn't smoke!
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- Why did this happen again?
- The blood work shows
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some abnormalities
with your hormone levels.
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What?! I don't even
know what you sayin'!
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It is unlikely that you could
sustain a full-term pregnancy.
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Mm. Mm-mm. Mm-mm. I
don't even believe you.
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Stop lying! Stop lying!
- Nurse!
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Stop lying--
what you do with my baby?!
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Nurse!
You need to calm down.
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What'd you do with my baby--
I'll find her myself!
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I'll find her myself!
Get some Ativan!
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- I want to know where it is!
- Hold her down!
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What did you do with my baby?!
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This is my grandbaby,
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Carlina Renae White.
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Oh, precious.
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Why she's named after her father
instead of me, I don't know,
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but the Lord works
in mysterious ways.
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Can we bow our heads?
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Heavenly Father,
we'd like to thank you
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for bringing this healthy
little girl into our family.
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May she always know
how it feels to be loved.
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Amen.
- Amen.
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- Amen.
- Amen!
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What's that Carlina--
I think she said, "Let's eat!"
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Let's eat.
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She's gorgeous.
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Welcome home, sweetie pie.
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How is she?
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She hasn't eaten
in days--she just lays there.
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We need the bed.
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Should we try the psych ward?
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Nah, there's no
beds there, either.
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Miss Pettway...
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Your vitals look good.
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We can have you
out of here this afternoon.
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How's that sound?
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Have you thought
of other alternatives?
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You can foster a child,
you can adopt a baby...
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My wife and I adopted
just last year.
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Nobody's gonna give
me no baby.
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# All night #
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# All day #
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# Angels watching
over me, my Lord #
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# All night #
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# All day #
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# Angels watching over me # #
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Are you ready?
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To try on shoes?
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No, you know--for the baby.
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Because you look like
you're about ready to drop.
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You're carrying it high...
like it's a girl.
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Is this your first?
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I had one last year.
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You won't sleep,
but you'll love it.
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You'll see.
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Now how do those feel?
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Ma'am?
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I think they're kinda tight--
can I get a size up?
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I'll go check.
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Good morning, Doctor.
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Her history?
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The patient's had
three miscarriages,
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and according to
her blood work,
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it appears her body is
too weak to have a child.
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But, like I told her,
there's a cure for everything
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if you're willing to take
matters in your own hands.
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Yes, Doctor?
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I knew you'd have a solution.
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I just took it
again--it's 104!
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I'm leaving right now.
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No, Carl--tell your
boss you're leaving now.
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Meet me at the hospital?
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Okay, bye.
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# All night, all day #
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# Angels watching over me,
my Lord #
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# All night, all day #
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# Angels watching over me,
my Lord #
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Uh, the children's ward--
where is it?
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- # All night, all day #
- Thanks.
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# Angels watching over me # #
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I never should have
took her to the park.
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It was too soon.
- It's not your fault.
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No, no--maybe I'm not ready
to take care of a child.
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I'm just--
I'm just too tired.
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You are a great mother.
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It's gonna be fine, right?
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Our baby is gonna be fine.
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Oh, girl, yeah!
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I see this all the time.
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Babies bounce back
faster than us.
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See?
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What's your baby's name?
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Carlina.
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- Your name Carl, right?
- Yeah.
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That's cute--I like that.
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Okay, we're giving
her antibiotics now,
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and the fever should
break by morning.
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Did you want to stay
the night with her?
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I may have to get back
to work.
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I'll make a call.
- Okay.
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Okay.
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You're gonna be okay.
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...on hold, line two--on hold,
line two.
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- Hey.
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- Hey.
- Hey.
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- What's your name?
- It's Joy.
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I just want to tell
you I overheard you earlier,
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and you're a good mother, Joy.
- You think so?
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- Yeah, girl, I can see it.
- Thank you, Miss...
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- You know what else I can see?
- What's that?
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- You tired!
- I am.
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The baby keeps me up.
- Oh, she keep you up, right?
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The baby keeps me up.
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Why don't you go home
and rest for a few hours?
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I should stay here.
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Girl, don't be
silly--for what?
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All you're gonna be doin' is
sittin' round here waitin'.
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We got your number--if anything
happen, we'll call you.
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I don't want
to leave her here alone.
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Joy, the baby don't
cry for you.
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You cry for the baby.
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I tell you what--
I tell you what.
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I'll watch her myself.
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Okay.
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Maybe a quick shower, just...
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I'll just go home
and pick up a few things.
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- I got you, I got it--
I tell you, I got it.
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I gotta get back to work.
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Can you run me home
on your way back?
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Let's go.
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I'll be back soon.
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Please look out for my baby.
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I got you--I got you.
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Go on... go.
- Okay.
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...to radiology, please.
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...to radiology.
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# Watchin' over me #
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# All day #
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# All night #
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# Angels watchin' over me #
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Oh!
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Oh no!
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# All day, all night #
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Ange--
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I haven't seen you
around before.
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- I just started.
- That explains it.
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The only way to survive
the late shift
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is by making sure you get
plenty of sleep on your day off.
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I'll keep that in mind,
thank you.
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Have a nice night.
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Just keep the meter
running--I'll be right back.
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It's okay!
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It's okay!
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It's okay.
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I got you--
I got you now.
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I got you.
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Hello?
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Yes, this is
Carlina White's mother.
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No, I left her at the hospital.
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Wh-What's wrong?
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Missing?!
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What do you mean she's missing?
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What the hell happened?!
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Detective Dalton, N.Y.P.D.
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Between 2:30 and 3:30 a.m.
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medical personnel, or someone
posing as medical personnel,
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removed your daughter
from the ward.
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Will she hurt my baby?
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I can't answer
that, Miss White.
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Security cameras--there's
gotta be something on those.
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Unfortunately,
cameras aren't working today.
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Fingerprints!
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We can only match them
if the perpetrator
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has committed a crime
in New York.
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We believe the kidnapper
worked at the hospital
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or pretended to work
at the hospital,
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so we're scouring files.
- How long is that gonna take?
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- I can't answer that,
Miss White.
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Well, maybe you
can answer this.
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How are you gonna
find my baby?
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Why don't you tell
us what you know.
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Did you speak
to anyone privately?
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- No.
- Yes, that nurse, remember?
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- Yeah, she told me,
"The baby don't cry for you.
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"You cry for the baby."
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That lady was trying
to get me to leave!
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- Did you get her name?
- She wasn't wearing a tag.
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- Can you describe her?
- She was black--
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- Around my complexion--
- O-older--
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- --heavy-set...
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Like she just had a baby...
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Or just lost one.
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We have reason to believe
that this woman is involved
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in the kidnapping
of Carlina White.
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The city of New York
has posted a 10,000 reward
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for any tip leading
to the baby's return.
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This is the first time
in the history of this city
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that a child's been
taken from the hospital.
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Sir, another comment?
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I want my baby back.
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She didn't have
to do that to me.
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I was carrying her
for nine months.
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She didn't have to take her
from me.
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I think the lady's just scared
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because she thinks we're
gonna press charges,
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but I just want to tell her,
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"I won't press charges
against you.
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Just bring our daughter back."
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- Ohh, hiiii!
- Hey!
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I need a picture!
Eh--stop--awww!
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- Hey!
- Hi!
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- Okay, be careful now.
- Okay.
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- Be careful.
- Okay.
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She been a little sick.
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I got you.
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Hi!
- That's my girl!
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Hey, baby!
- What's your name, baby?
259
00:16:17,698 --> 00:16:19,735
- Say, "My name's Nejdra Nance."
260
00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:23,039
"My name Nejdra Nance."
- Where's your daddy, Nejdra?
261
00:16:23,103 --> 00:16:25,641
- "My daddy's
out working today."
262
00:16:25,706 --> 00:16:27,775
Dealing drugs ain't working.
263
00:16:31,444 --> 00:16:33,079
You look like a Netty
264
00:16:33,145 --> 00:16:35,717
I'm-a call you Netty
265
00:16:35,782 --> 00:16:37,618
You hear that, Netty?
266
00:16:37,683 --> 00:16:40,789
I'm your Auntie Cassandra.
I'm gonna get the bottle.
267
00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:51,664
Excuse me, miss, my daughter's
been kidnapped.
268
00:16:51,729 --> 00:16:53,966
If you could give me
a call if you see her--
269
00:16:54,032 --> 00:16:56,503
Excuse me, sir,
my daughter's been--
270
00:16:56,567 --> 00:16:58,069
Excuse me, sir--
271
00:17:06,843 --> 00:17:11,719
Hey.
272
00:17:13,216 --> 00:17:15,587
I spoke to my boss.
273
00:17:15,651 --> 00:17:17,488
I'm gonna get that raise
274
00:17:17,553 --> 00:17:19,556
so we can start looking
for our own place.
275
00:17:19,621 --> 00:17:21,124
Don't bother.
276
00:17:21,189 --> 00:17:23,159
They're never gonna find her.
- Yes, they will.
277
00:17:23,225 --> 00:17:24,928
Carl, just stop.
278
00:17:24,993 --> 00:17:28,499
Why are you
so mad at me?
279
00:17:28,563 --> 00:17:30,700
Joy, no one could have known
this would happen.
280
00:17:30,765 --> 00:17:32,602
It was late, a shift change,
281
00:17:32,667 --> 00:17:35,873
the cameras not working--
it was like a perfect storm!
282
00:17:35,936 --> 00:17:38,074
I keep thinking
about that night--
283
00:17:38,138 --> 00:17:41,011
that... nurse,
284
00:17:41,075 --> 00:17:43,179
all those things she said to me.
285
00:17:43,244 --> 00:17:46,950
She--I called a lawyer today.
286
00:17:47,013 --> 00:17:49,885
Somebody's gotta pay for this.
287
00:17:49,949 --> 00:17:51,719
Somebody's gotta pay.
288
00:17:57,723 --> 00:17:59,760
When's her birthday?
289
00:17:59,825 --> 00:18:02,563
July 31.
290
00:18:02,627 --> 00:18:06,634
Why did it take you three
weeks to bring her around?
291
00:18:06,698 --> 00:18:08,067
They kept us
in the hospital
292
00:18:08,132 --> 00:18:11,071
for a little while.
- And you didn't call nobody?
293
00:18:11,135 --> 00:18:13,239
I didn't want to bother folks.
294
00:18:13,304 --> 00:18:15,307
- I ain't "folks"--
I'm your sister.
295
00:18:15,573 --> 00:18:18,745
Okay. I started
having contractions.
296
00:18:18,809 --> 00:18:20,212
I didn't want to take
no chances,
297
00:18:20,278 --> 00:18:21,813
so I went
straight to the hospital.
298
00:18:21,879 --> 00:18:24,149
I didn't want no problems.
299
00:18:24,214 --> 00:18:25,784
I got there.
300
00:18:25,849 --> 00:18:28,988
They didn't think she
was gonna make it.
301
00:18:29,052 --> 00:18:30,854
But she did.
302
00:18:35,291 --> 00:18:38,998
You're my little
miracle baby, Nejdra.
303
00:18:39,061 --> 00:18:42,167
You're my little miracle baby.
304
00:19:00,781 --> 00:19:03,953
It's been nearly a year
that 19-day-old Carlina White
305
00:19:04,017 --> 00:19:06,122
was snatched
from a Harlem hospital.
306
00:19:06,186 --> 00:19:08,823
Parents have filed
a 100 million lawsuit
307
00:19:08,888 --> 00:19:10,324
against the city
308
00:19:10,590 --> 00:19:13,595
that charges lax security
and shoddy hiring practices.
309
00:19:13,660 --> 00:19:15,997
Carlina's life is priceless.
310
00:19:16,062 --> 00:19:18,099
No settlement in the world
could ever measure up
311
00:19:18,164 --> 00:19:19,866
to having my daughter back.
312
00:19:19,932 --> 00:19:22,704
I can't believe the police
haven't found my daughter yet.
313
00:19:22,768 --> 00:19:24,905
In the beginning,
there were helicopters
314
00:19:24,970 --> 00:19:27,040
and police officers everywhere,
315
00:19:27,105 --> 00:19:29,809
but it all died down
rather fast.
316
00:19:29,874 --> 00:19:31,711
Detective Dalton?
317
00:19:31,776 --> 00:19:34,314
I need some good news.
- We're working on it.
318
00:19:34,379 --> 00:19:37,016
You said you'd find her.
319
00:19:37,081 --> 00:19:38,851
Look, there was a woman.
320
00:19:38,916 --> 00:19:41,620
Someone saw her at the hospital,
then on the train with a baby.
321
00:19:41,685 --> 00:19:43,655
We're checking--
- If Carlina was a white girl,
322
00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:45,924
you'd have found her by now.
- You really believe that?
323
00:19:45,989 --> 00:19:48,293
At least she'd still
be in the papers.
324
00:19:48,358 --> 00:19:51,798
- What do you want me to say?
- I want you to keep your word.
325
00:19:51,862 --> 00:19:53,966
Find my daughter.
326
00:19:59,301 --> 00:20:01,338
- And that's 43.96.
327
00:20:01,403 --> 00:20:03,173
Cleanup in aisle 2.
328
00:20:03,238 --> 00:20:06,644
Cleanup in aisle 2.
- Here you go.
329
00:20:06,708 --> 00:20:09,680
Keith, I need
an authorization.
330
00:20:09,744 --> 00:20:12,749
Hold on a second,
Mrs. Alexander.
331
00:20:12,814 --> 00:20:16,320
Is there a problem?
332
00:20:16,384 --> 00:20:18,755
Uh, no--there's just been
an uptick in fraud.
333
00:20:18,819 --> 00:20:20,722
We just need to
verify this quickly.
334
00:20:20,787 --> 00:20:22,758
I got cash.
335
00:20:22,823 --> 00:20:25,695
Sure. Thank you.
336
00:20:25,759 --> 00:20:28,296
Okay.
337
00:20:28,361 --> 00:20:30,331
Hold on a second,
Mrs. Alexander.
338
00:20:30,397 --> 00:20:32,100
- What?
- Your change.
339
00:20:32,165 --> 00:20:34,402
Marcus, can you come
to the deli?
340
00:20:34,667 --> 00:20:36,202
Marcus to the deli.
341
00:20:42,074 --> 00:20:45,180
Auntie Cassandra's
gonna get you some milk.
342
00:20:45,244 --> 00:20:47,348
Ugh, we're out of milk.
343
00:20:47,413 --> 00:20:49,884
That's why I
went to the store.
344
00:20:49,948 --> 00:20:52,820
That's why I went to the store--
get my baby some milk!
345
00:20:52,884 --> 00:20:55,388
Yes! Mwah! You miss me?
346
00:20:55,453 --> 00:20:58,057
Yes, you did!
347
00:20:58,121 --> 00:21:00,927
Oh, baby.
348
00:21:03,293 --> 00:21:05,363
What you gonna do with that?
349
00:21:05,429 --> 00:21:07,900
I am gonna make
Nejdra a new outfit.
350
00:21:07,964 --> 00:21:10,001
A dress and a hat--you like it?
- That's sweet.
351
00:21:10,066 --> 00:21:11,869
I like that.
- It's sweet, right?
352
00:21:11,935 --> 00:21:13,304
I like that--I like that one.
353
00:21:13,369 --> 00:21:15,741
Her daddy's taking us
out for her first birthday,
354
00:21:15,805 --> 00:21:18,176
and l want us to look
extra nice.
355
00:21:18,241 --> 00:21:21,947
You need to cut him loose
and get yourself a job.
356
00:21:22,010 --> 00:21:23,947
For your information,
357
00:21:24,012 --> 00:21:26,817
Miss Holier-Than-Thou,
I gots me a job.
358
00:21:26,882 --> 00:21:28,351
Well, let me show you
359
00:21:28,416 --> 00:21:30,853
what we been doin' all day.
- No!
360
00:21:30,918 --> 00:21:32,955
I'll go with you, mama!
361
00:21:34,422 --> 00:21:41,334
Come here, precious!
362
00:21:41,395 --> 00:21:43,365
Hi, mama!
363
00:21:43,430 --> 00:21:45,200
- You did it!
- That's right!
364
00:21:45,266 --> 00:21:47,302
We'd like to open up
three accounts.
365
00:21:47,367 --> 00:21:49,505
One in my name.
366
00:21:49,770 --> 00:21:51,740
One in mine.
367
00:21:51,805 --> 00:21:54,809
And one is a trust
in the name of Carlina White.
368
00:21:54,873 --> 00:21:56,210
And she is?
369
00:21:56,276 --> 00:21:58,480
Our daughter.
370
00:21:58,744 --> 00:22:01,950
That's good planning--
where's the little one?
371
00:22:02,014 --> 00:22:05,387
- Do you see her?
- Uh, Carlina's not with us,
372
00:22:05,450 --> 00:22:07,053
but we're hoping
she will be soon.
373
00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:10,225
Well, our minimum deposit
is 100 per account.
374
00:22:10,289 --> 00:22:12,392
Is that okay?
375
00:22:21,765 --> 00:22:24,269
That's almost
half a million dollars.
376
00:22:24,334 --> 00:22:26,939
What do you have to do
to make that kind of money?
377
00:22:27,004 --> 00:22:28,907
It was a settlement, okay?
378
00:22:32,875 --> 00:22:34,378
Want to get a coffee
or something?
379
00:22:34,444 --> 00:22:36,313
- I'm gonna be late.
- How about tonight?
380
00:22:36,378 --> 00:22:38,515
- I can't.
- You can't keep avoiding me.
381
00:22:38,781 --> 00:22:42,154
I've got to get to class.
382
00:22:42,217 --> 00:22:45,223
How's the studying going?
383
00:22:45,287 --> 00:22:47,958
Carl, I know you've been trying,
384
00:22:48,023 --> 00:22:50,995
but every time I look
at you, I see Carlina.
385
00:22:51,059 --> 00:22:52,461
I see her face.
386
00:22:52,527 --> 00:22:55,266
I see her eyes.
387
00:22:55,330 --> 00:22:57,467
I don't want to be
angry anymore.
388
00:22:57,532 --> 00:22:59,435
It's my fault, right?
389
00:22:59,500 --> 00:23:02,037
We both left
the hospital that night.
390
00:23:02,102 --> 00:23:04,039
You think you're
the only one that's angry.
391
00:23:04,104 --> 00:23:05,841
There's not a day goes by
392
00:23:05,906 --> 00:23:08,043
I don't think about what
our lives could've been like
393
00:23:08,108 --> 00:23:10,077
if this didn't happen.
394
00:23:10,143 --> 00:23:12,046
I'm sorry.
395
00:23:12,111 --> 00:23:14,014
I just... can't.
396
00:23:17,249 --> 00:23:19,120
I just can't.
397
00:23:22,321 --> 00:23:25,059
Hey, what's up, cutie?
398
00:23:25,123 --> 00:23:28,395
Don't you ever talk to
strangers, you hear me?
399
00:23:28,459 --> 00:23:31,032
What do you do if a stranger
tries to give you candy?
400
00:23:31,096 --> 00:23:33,567
- I scream "No!" and run.
- Good. Good.
401
00:23:33,831 --> 00:23:35,868
- Do I gotta go?
- Yes, you gotta go.
402
00:23:35,933 --> 00:23:37,302
Can't you teach me?
403
00:23:37,368 --> 00:23:39,071
Mama can't teach
you everything, baby.
404
00:23:39,136 --> 00:23:41,073
Don't you want to grow up
and be smart,
405
00:23:41,138 --> 00:23:43,542
like the Huxtables on TV?
- I don't wanna go to school!
406
00:23:43,607 --> 00:23:45,377
Look here--
don't test me today, okay?
407
00:23:45,442 --> 00:23:47,345
Don't test me today--
do you hear me?
408
00:23:47,411 --> 00:23:49,347
Do you hear me?
409
00:23:49,412 --> 00:23:51,382
Yes.
410
00:23:54,417 --> 00:23:57,122
Don't be upset, okay?
411
00:23:57,187 --> 00:23:58,522
Mama just loves you so much
412
00:23:58,588 --> 00:24:01,259
that she wants
what's best for you.
413
00:24:01,323 --> 00:24:04,529
You mama's miracle
baby, Nejdra.
414
00:24:04,593 --> 00:24:07,231
Can I get a smile?
415
00:24:07,295 --> 00:24:09,099
You can do better than that!
416
00:24:09,164 --> 00:24:11,601
Come on, give me a smile!
417
00:24:11,866 --> 00:24:13,469
Come on.
418
00:24:13,535 --> 00:24:15,170
Mwah... let's go to school,
big girl.
419
00:24:17,304 --> 00:24:21,112
# The blinds are pulled #
- Hurry up, mama--it's time!
420
00:24:21,175 --> 00:24:23,345
What'd I tell you about
bothering me this early?
421
00:24:23,411 --> 00:24:27,484
# With both of us,
this house might bust #
422
00:24:27,547 --> 00:24:33,191
I'm comin'!
423
00:24:33,253 --> 00:24:35,189
# And all this family #
424
00:24:35,255 --> 00:24:38,326
I'm comin'.
425
00:24:38,390 --> 00:24:41,362
# We're gonna have
a merry Christmas, babe #
426
00:24:41,427 --> 00:24:46,303
# A very merry Christmas, baby #
- Let's see what you got.
427
00:24:46,365 --> 00:24:49,269
- # A merry Christmas, babe #
- Are all these for me?
428
00:24:49,333 --> 00:24:52,506
- # Very merry Christmas, baby #
429
00:24:52,570 --> 00:24:54,507
Yeah, you been
a good girl this year,
430
00:24:54,572 --> 00:24:56,676
so here--open this one first.
431
00:24:56,941 --> 00:24:58,377
No, no, no--open this one.
432
00:24:58,443 --> 00:25:00,112
Open this one first.
433
00:25:00,177 --> 00:25:03,216
- Here!
- Look, baby.
434
00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:06,519
# The old neighborhood
always looked so good #
435
00:25:06,583 --> 00:25:10,324
And this one's for you.
436
00:25:10,387 --> 00:25:13,358
# We say hello to the friends
we can and can't remember #
437
00:25:13,423 --> 00:25:16,060
I know you want to do
hair when you grow up,
438
00:25:16,125 --> 00:25:18,062
so I say you could
practice on her.
439
00:25:18,127 --> 00:25:20,965
# Then the handbells ring #
- Can I brush it now?
440
00:25:21,029 --> 00:25:22,532
Can I, please?
- Yeah, yeah.
441
00:25:22,598 --> 00:25:25,537
Go get my brush.
# And then the children sing #
442
00:25:25,601 --> 00:25:27,470
I don't get no sugar--what?
443
00:25:27,535 --> 00:25:29,105
Huh?
444
00:25:29,171 --> 00:25:31,341
# The fireplace
is on the embers #
445
00:25:31,406 --> 00:25:32,941
And Netty, hurry up,
446
00:25:33,007 --> 00:25:34,944
'cause we're already late
to your grandma's house.
447
00:25:35,009 --> 00:25:40,185
# You and me
and all this family #
448
00:25:40,247 --> 00:25:43,119
Mm... all these presents?
449
00:25:43,184 --> 00:25:46,088
You didn't have but two pennies
to rub together last month.
450
00:25:46,153 --> 00:25:48,189
Ain't you gonna open it?
451
00:25:48,254 --> 00:25:50,626
Huh... well, whatever
you're doin',
452
00:25:50,691 --> 00:25:52,961
you better watch out
before you end up
453
00:25:53,026 --> 00:25:54,963
in a prison cell
right next to Netty's daddy.
454
00:25:55,028 --> 00:25:56,964
Why don't you see
what you got?
455
00:25:57,030 --> 00:25:58,665
You're acting like
a prison guard yourself.
456
00:25:58,731 --> 00:26:00,634
- I'm just sayin'--
- I'm just sayin',
457
00:26:00,700 --> 00:26:02,970
it's Christmas--
why don't you enjoy yourself?
458
00:26:03,035 --> 00:26:04,972
# The old neighborhood #
459
00:26:05,037 --> 00:26:09,578
# always looked so good
each December #
460
00:26:09,641 --> 00:26:11,544
Remember that day?
461
00:26:11,609 --> 00:26:14,649
# We say hello to the friends
we can and can't remember #
462
00:26:14,713 --> 00:26:16,983
Thank you.
463
00:26:17,048 --> 00:26:20,687
- Mama, where's your brush?
- Um, it's in my top drawer.
464
00:26:20,751 --> 00:26:22,554
And, Netty, get a move on,
all right?
465
00:26:22,619 --> 00:26:25,993
We ain't got all day.
466
00:26:26,056 --> 00:26:27,592
I can't find it.
467
00:26:27,658 --> 00:26:32,066
Well, it's in there,
but you gotta go.
468
00:26:32,128 --> 00:26:34,233
Fine.
469
00:26:34,297 --> 00:26:36,367
Bye, mama.
470
00:26:36,432 --> 00:26:39,639
Bye... Netty.
471
00:26:44,773 --> 00:26:48,447
Excuse me, I'm looking
for a Detective Dalton.
472
00:26:48,510 --> 00:26:51,514
Oh, he retired last week.
473
00:26:51,580 --> 00:26:55,586
Can I help you?
474
00:26:55,649 --> 00:26:57,286
I'm Joy White.
475
00:26:57,352 --> 00:26:59,556
My daughter Carlina White
was kidnapped
476
00:26:59,620 --> 00:27:01,457
16 years ago.
477
00:27:01,522 --> 00:27:03,091
I'm here to look at the book.
478
00:27:03,156 --> 00:27:05,261
Yeah, he told me you
were gonna come by.
479
00:27:05,325 --> 00:27:07,162
Uh, let's see here.
480
00:27:07,227 --> 00:27:11,234
Here.
481
00:27:11,298 --> 00:27:13,200
Not a lot of new faces
in the book
482
00:27:13,266 --> 00:27:14,669
since last month, though.
483
00:27:14,734 --> 00:27:16,536
Here, have a seat.
484
00:27:21,707 --> 00:27:24,244
I'll never forget hers.
485
00:27:24,310 --> 00:27:26,714
"The baby don't cry for you.
486
00:27:26,779 --> 00:27:29,283
You cry for the baby."
487
00:27:36,186 --> 00:27:38,157
When were you gonna tell me?
488
00:27:38,222 --> 00:27:41,661
What?
489
00:27:41,726 --> 00:27:44,564
Ride or die, right?
490
00:27:44,628 --> 00:27:47,400
Besties.
491
00:27:47,464 --> 00:27:50,503
Ann ain't stupid.
492
00:27:50,567 --> 00:27:54,073
And when she find out,
she gonna be real mad.
493
00:27:54,137 --> 00:27:57,109
- What if she kicks me out?
- Come live with me.
494
00:27:57,173 --> 00:27:58,608
Will you tell her for me?
495
00:27:58,674 --> 00:28:01,479
Mmmm... we'll tell her together
496
00:28:01,544 --> 00:28:03,714
when I get back from Atlanta.
497
00:28:05,848 --> 00:28:07,784
You know you're my girl,
right?
498
00:28:07,849 --> 00:28:08,850
Mm-hmm.
499
00:28:09,118 --> 00:28:11,155
# Everybody move, man #
500
00:28:11,219 --> 00:28:13,222
# Just groove,
players gotta do your dance #
501
00:28:13,287 --> 00:28:15,391
# Just breathe, ladies
better choose a man #
502
00:28:15,456 --> 00:28:17,193
# Let's go, let's go, let's go #
503
00:28:17,258 --> 00:28:20,130
# Just clap # #
504
00:28:20,194 --> 00:28:22,698
I'm-a have to beat these
boys off her with a stick.
505
00:28:22,763 --> 00:28:25,234
Least she got better
taste than you do.
506
00:28:25,298 --> 00:28:27,803
- Oh, no, you ain't gonna start.
- Hey, hey...
507
00:28:27,868 --> 00:28:30,205
- You ain't startin'!
- 'Cause I'm scared of you.
508
00:28:30,270 --> 00:28:32,407
I'm really scared of you.
- Oh, you should be.
509
00:28:32,472 --> 00:28:33,874
You should be.
510
00:28:34,141 --> 00:28:36,745
Huh! Huh! Huh! Huh!
511
00:28:36,809 --> 00:28:40,182
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
512
00:28:41,747 --> 00:28:45,655
Why don't you go say something
to your guests, please?
513
00:28:48,355 --> 00:28:50,592
And stand still.
514
00:28:50,657 --> 00:28:52,393
- Hi, y'all.
- Hey.
515
00:28:52,458 --> 00:28:56,132
So glad you guys
could all come to my "Sweet 16."
516
00:28:56,195 --> 00:28:59,267
It's really nice to have
all my friends here today.
517
00:28:59,331 --> 00:29:01,568
I don't know what I'd do
without you guys.
518
00:29:01,633 --> 00:29:03,268
All y'all are me.
519
00:29:03,334 --> 00:29:06,406
Know what I'm sayin'?
520
00:29:17,580 --> 00:29:19,418
# Dudes can't pick that up #
521
00:29:19,483 --> 00:29:22,388
# Slackin' in the game
so I came here to pick that up #
522
00:29:22,452 --> 00:29:23,887
# Just clap
Everybody movin', man #
523
00:29:24,153 --> 00:29:25,923
# Just groove
players gotta do your dance #
524
00:29:26,189 --> 00:29:28,159
What I tell you--
525
00:29:28,224 --> 00:29:30,194
- --about getting all close up
with these boys?
526
00:29:30,259 --> 00:29:32,596
- We weren't doing nothing.
- I know what I'm talking about.
527
00:29:32,661 --> 00:29:34,664
All right, people,
party's over.
528
00:29:34,730 --> 00:29:38,404
You all need to go home.
529
00:29:38,467 --> 00:29:39,735
We are home.
530
00:29:39,801 --> 00:29:41,571
Go inside.
531
00:29:41,636 --> 00:29:42,905
Why?
532
00:29:43,171 --> 00:29:45,575
Because we said so.
533
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:46,541
Becau--
534
00:29:46,607 --> 00:29:48,211
Becau--
535
00:29:48,276 --> 00:29:50,413
Last time I checked,
536
00:29:50,478 --> 00:29:52,615
it was legal
to stand on the street.
537
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,418
- Come on, mama, let's go.
- Get your hands off me, girl.
538
00:29:55,482 --> 00:29:57,752
I ain't scared of these cops!
539
00:29:59,619 --> 00:30:01,255
- Is there a problem?
- No!
540
00:30:01,321 --> 00:30:03,559
- Yes... you.
541
00:30:03,623 --> 00:30:06,261
- Mama, he's serious.
- So am I!
542
00:30:06,325 --> 00:30:07,896
This is my house.
543
00:30:07,961 --> 00:30:09,763
This is my street!
544
00:30:09,828 --> 00:30:11,732
My street!
545
00:30:11,797 --> 00:30:13,300
What are you on, ma'am?
546
00:30:13,366 --> 00:30:16,839
What am I--
547
00:30:16,902 --> 00:30:18,939
I'm high on life.
548
00:30:19,204 --> 00:30:22,543
All right--I'm high on life.
549
00:30:22,607 --> 00:30:26,581
Go inside... right now.
550
00:30:26,644 --> 00:30:28,915
- Or what?
- You need to stop and be quiet.
551
00:30:28,980 --> 00:30:30,950
Get your hands off me, girl!
552
00:30:31,215 --> 00:30:34,287
Don't you touch.
553
00:30:34,351 --> 00:30:36,289
Or what?
554
00:30:36,353 --> 00:30:38,256
What you gonna do?
555
00:30:38,321 --> 00:30:40,258
Huh?
556
00:30:40,323 --> 00:30:41,959
You gonna beat me in the street?
557
00:30:42,225 --> 00:30:44,395
You gonna beat me in the street
like Rodney King?
558
00:30:44,461 --> 00:30:46,631
What you gonna do?!
- What's goin' on?
559
00:30:46,696 --> 00:30:48,533
They violatin'
my human rights.
560
00:30:48,598 --> 00:30:50,535
That's what's goin' on.
- You're coming with me.
561
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:52,402
- I ain't goin'--
- Officer, wait! Wait!
562
00:30:52,468 --> 00:30:54,672
Please, please, wait--
I'll take her back in the house.
563
00:30:54,737 --> 00:30:56,673
You don't have to beg
for me, girl.
564
00:30:56,738 --> 00:30:58,575
These cops ain't got
nothin' on me!
565
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:00,643
Get off me--I can walk--
I can walk!
566
00:31:00,709 --> 00:31:03,681
Get off me!
567
00:31:09,584 --> 00:31:11,487
Bless us, Lord,
568
00:31:11,552 --> 00:31:13,555
make us thankful
569
00:31:13,621 --> 00:31:15,958
through Christ our Lord.
570
00:31:16,023 --> 00:31:20,464
And, Lord, as we celebrate
Carlina's 16th birthday,
571
00:31:20,527 --> 00:31:23,933
please keep her safe and happy.
572
00:31:23,997 --> 00:31:26,034
And I humbly ask
573
00:31:26,299 --> 00:31:27,935
you bring her back to me
574
00:31:28,001 --> 00:31:30,505
when you see fit.
575
00:31:30,569 --> 00:31:33,908
Amen.
576
00:31:33,972 --> 00:31:37,446
Are you gonna do this
every year on her birthday?
577
00:31:37,510 --> 00:31:39,680
I will...
578
00:31:39,745 --> 00:31:42,416
until Carlina comes home
or I die.
579
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:44,717
That's not healthy.
580
00:31:44,782 --> 00:31:47,954
So you a psychologist now?
581
00:31:48,019 --> 00:31:51,893
We're just saying
maybe it's time to let her go.
582
00:31:51,956 --> 00:31:54,627
If, God forbid,
583
00:31:54,691 --> 00:31:58,365
something happened
to you or your sister,
584
00:31:58,428 --> 00:32:00,666
would you want me to let it go?
585
00:32:10,506 --> 00:32:12,610
Hi, Carl.
586
00:32:12,675 --> 00:32:14,745
Thank you for the flowers.
587
00:32:14,810 --> 00:32:16,747
Thanks for the card.
588
00:32:16,812 --> 00:32:18,514
How are the kids?
589
00:32:18,580 --> 00:32:20,684
My oldest boy just got
his learner's permit
590
00:32:20,748 --> 00:32:22,919
last month.
- Now that can't be good.
591
00:32:22,984 --> 00:32:25,989
You ain't lying.
592
00:32:26,054 --> 00:32:28,993
Really, Carl, how are you?
593
00:32:29,057 --> 00:32:32,530
Well, you know,
this is always
594
00:32:32,593 --> 00:32:34,830
one of the hardest days
of the year for me.
595
00:32:34,895 --> 00:32:38,435
Me, too.
596
00:32:38,499 --> 00:32:40,435
Hey, sis, so how was
the interview?
597
00:32:40,501 --> 00:32:42,705
Well...
I got the job!
598
00:32:44,371 --> 00:32:46,541
Yeah, Cassie--
Iook at you!
599
00:32:46,606 --> 00:32:48,643
Yeah, I'm gonna
be moving down there.
600
00:32:48,708 --> 00:32:50,745
Atlanta is real nice.
601
00:32:50,810 --> 00:32:52,647
The streets are full
of hard-working brothers
602
00:32:52,712 --> 00:32:54,581
with suits... suits!
- Mm-hmm!
603
00:32:54,646 --> 00:32:56,951
I don't care if they all
look like Denzel,
604
00:32:57,016 --> 00:32:58,952
it's too damn hot down there
for me.
605
00:32:59,017 --> 00:33:01,422
So maybe Netty
could come down there.
606
00:33:01,486 --> 00:33:04,458
It's a great place
to start a family.
607
00:33:04,523 --> 00:33:07,494
What you talking about?
608
00:33:07,558 --> 00:33:10,563
I can get a job...
609
00:33:10,628 --> 00:33:12,832
and, uh, a place
for me and the baby.
610
00:33:21,105 --> 00:33:22,740
- You pregnant?
- Wait...
611
00:33:22,805 --> 00:33:25,611
before you get mad, remember
how you were at that age.
612
00:33:25,675 --> 00:33:28,514
No. No.
613
00:33:28,578 --> 00:33:31,416
No grandbaby of mine is
gonna be raised in no Atlanta.
614
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:34,052
We puttin' a child-pen
right here.
615
00:33:34,117 --> 00:33:37,823
- You're not mad?
- No, girl, I'm happy!
616
00:33:37,886 --> 00:33:40,423
I'm happy--
I'm gonna be a grandmama!
617
00:33:40,489 --> 00:33:42,693
Is it a girl?
618
00:33:42,758 --> 00:33:44,427
Is it a girl--it's a girl?
619
00:33:44,492 --> 00:33:47,164
Oh, my God, I want a girl--
I want a girl!
620
00:33:47,429 --> 00:33:49,633
Well, we gotta get
prenatal vitamins
621
00:33:49,697 --> 00:33:51,834
and a checkup.
- We might need a bigger place.
622
00:33:51,899 --> 00:33:53,736
How are we gonna pay
for all this?
623
00:33:53,801 --> 00:33:55,971
I can pay!
624
00:33:56,036 --> 00:33:57,974
The state will pay
for some of it.
625
00:33:58,038 --> 00:34:01,945
No grandbaby of mine is
gonna be raised by no welfare.
626
00:34:02,008 --> 00:34:04,980
I can pay.
627
00:34:05,044 --> 00:34:08,919
Credit card.
628
00:34:08,982 --> 00:34:13,022
We'll get her in the system
just in case, okay?
629
00:34:18,724 --> 00:34:20,793
Hey, did you find
my birth certificate?
630
00:34:20,859 --> 00:34:22,696
I need to go
to the appointment soon.
631
00:34:22,761 --> 00:34:23,996
It's here somewhere.
632
00:34:24,062 --> 00:34:25,965
I'll handle it
when I get home from work.
633
00:34:26,030 --> 00:34:28,067
That's what you said
Iast week.
634
00:34:28,132 --> 00:34:31,605
I'll handle it
when I get home from work.
635
00:34:31,669 --> 00:34:35,476
I promise.
636
00:35:25,084 --> 00:35:27,054
Next.
637
00:35:33,259 --> 00:35:35,596
Here are the forms and...
638
00:35:35,661 --> 00:35:38,666
my birth certificate.
- Okay.
639
00:35:49,106 --> 00:35:50,909
We have no record
of your birth.
640
00:35:50,975 --> 00:35:52,110
What?
641
00:35:52,176 --> 00:35:54,915
No Nejdra Nance
born July 31, 1987?
642
00:35:54,979 --> 00:35:58,018
Bridgeport, Connecticut.
643
00:35:58,082 --> 00:36:00,786
We have no Nejdra Nance
in the system.
644
00:36:00,851 --> 00:36:03,856
I didn't make it up--
can you check again?
645
00:36:08,724 --> 00:36:11,262
- This document is a forgery.
- No, it's not.
646
00:36:15,230 --> 00:36:18,169
Don't make me call the police.
647
00:36:24,673 --> 00:36:27,277
I'd like to thank the DJ
for starting my set off
648
00:36:27,542 --> 00:36:29,211
on a racist note.
649
00:36:29,277 --> 00:36:31,581
Everybody else came up to--
650
00:36:31,645 --> 00:36:33,715
What did you do
with my real birth certificate?
651
00:36:33,781 --> 00:36:37,020
Have you lost your mind--
I was watching that!
652
00:36:37,083 --> 00:36:41,225
The state of Connecticut
has no record of my birth.
653
00:36:41,288 --> 00:36:43,993
- Who told you that?
- I went downtown
654
00:36:44,057 --> 00:36:46,327
with the fake certificate
I found in your closet.
655
00:36:51,130 --> 00:36:53,668
- You went in my room?
- To find my birth certificate.
656
00:36:53,733 --> 00:36:55,736
I done told you about
goin' in my room!
657
00:36:55,802 --> 00:36:57,838
- They almost called--
- I done told you!
658
00:36:57,904 --> 00:37:00,675
They almost called
the cops on me!
659
00:37:00,739 --> 00:37:02,209
What's goin' on?
660
00:37:02,274 --> 00:37:05,045
Why don't I have
a real birth certificate?
661
00:37:05,109 --> 00:37:07,782
Why?!
662
00:37:07,846 --> 00:37:09,715
She left you and she
never came back.
663
00:37:09,780 --> 00:37:11,116
What?
664
00:37:11,182 --> 00:37:13,252
She was a friend
of your father's.
665
00:37:13,318 --> 00:37:16,022
- What are you talkin' about?
- Your mother.
666
00:37:16,086 --> 00:37:17,756
She left you on my doorstep.
667
00:37:20,324 --> 00:37:23,830
You're not my real mother?
668
00:37:23,893 --> 00:37:26,097
She left you
669
00:37:26,162 --> 00:37:29,301
because she knew
I'd raise you right.
670
00:37:29,365 --> 00:37:32,003
And I did.
671
00:37:32,068 --> 00:37:35,274
I did raise you right, didn't I?
672
00:37:35,338 --> 00:37:37,675
- What was her name?
- Didn't I?
673
00:37:37,740 --> 00:37:39,944
What was my mother's name?
674
00:37:40,008 --> 00:37:42,145
You don't--you don't
even need to know all that.
675
00:37:42,210 --> 00:37:44,647
Yes, I do.
676
00:37:44,712 --> 00:37:47,717
All that matters right now
is you and me.
677
00:37:50,618 --> 00:37:53,857
You call me "Little Ann..."
678
00:37:53,921 --> 00:37:57,093
'cause I look just like you.
679
00:37:57,157 --> 00:38:00,063
You pretended to be
my real mother.
680
00:38:00,127 --> 00:38:03,700
What--how could you lie
like that?
681
00:38:03,764 --> 00:38:06,703
To me?
682
00:38:10,003 --> 00:38:12,040
Netty...
683
00:38:14,039 --> 00:38:16,209
Now you can't be mad at me
for that now.
684
00:38:16,275 --> 00:38:18,278
Come here--
come on, don't be like that.
685
00:38:18,343 --> 00:38:21,716
Come here.
686
00:38:21,780 --> 00:38:24,252
Now you can't be mad at me!
687
00:38:24,316 --> 00:38:26,953
I took you out of
a bad situation,
688
00:38:27,018 --> 00:38:29,021
and I did my best for you.
689
00:38:29,086 --> 00:38:32,026
I did my best for you--
that's all you need to know.
690
00:38:35,426 --> 00:38:37,429
Look here.
691
00:38:37,694 --> 00:38:40,332
Netty... I did my best.
692
00:38:46,169 --> 00:38:49,007
What--Netty... Netty!
693
00:38:49,072 --> 00:38:52,243
Netty!
694
00:38:56,813 --> 00:38:58,815
You sure you don't
want me to stay
695
00:38:58,881 --> 00:39:01,352
till you have the baby?
- We'll be fine.
696
00:39:01,417 --> 00:39:03,821
You could always
come stay with me.
697
00:39:03,885 --> 00:39:06,256
I mean it.
698
00:39:06,321 --> 00:39:08,759
You and that baby
are always welcome.
699
00:39:08,824 --> 00:39:10,459
Tell me the truth.
700
00:39:10,724 --> 00:39:13,697
Did you know?
701
00:39:13,761 --> 00:39:16,967
She told me she gave birth
to you, and I believed her.
702
00:39:17,031 --> 00:39:19,301
Why--Why did you believe her?
703
00:39:19,366 --> 00:39:22,940
I didn't think she would lie
about something like that.
704
00:39:23,003 --> 00:39:25,874
Look, Netty, here's the truth.
705
00:39:25,939 --> 00:39:27,709
I don't care who gave birth
to you.
706
00:39:27,774 --> 00:39:30,946
But I do.
707
00:39:31,010 --> 00:39:33,047
You sure you want to know?
708
00:39:33,112 --> 00:39:35,916
'Cause the truth don't always
turn out the way you want.
709
00:39:35,982 --> 00:39:37,984
Cassie, if I don't know
who I am,
710
00:39:38,050 --> 00:39:40,254
how am I gonna tell my baby
who she is?
711
00:39:42,788 --> 00:39:44,490
- All right,
I got the last two.
712
00:39:50,828 --> 00:39:53,867
Here you go.
713
00:40:00,270 --> 00:40:02,073
I'm gonna miss you, girl.
714
00:40:07,210 --> 00:40:09,347
Baby on the doorstep?
715
00:40:09,412 --> 00:40:12,918
You gonna have to tell her
more than that.
716
00:40:18,087 --> 00:40:20,424
Mind your business, Cassie.
717
00:40:25,860 --> 00:40:27,964
You be careful.
718
00:40:32,100 --> 00:40:34,972
Call me!
719
00:40:54,086 --> 00:40:56,089
She was a tiny figure
720
00:40:56,155 --> 00:40:57,457
they knew for a tiny time,
721
00:40:57,523 --> 00:40:59,995
but 17 years
after she was snatched away,
722
00:41:00,059 --> 00:41:02,329
the ache remains.
- I feel it in my spirit.
723
00:41:02,394 --> 00:41:04,163
--says Joy White,
724
00:41:04,228 --> 00:41:05,799
the mother
of the abducted child,
725
00:41:05,864 --> 00:41:07,499
who works for a financial
brokerage firm.
726
00:41:07,566 --> 00:41:10,003
I use that name
as my e-mail address,
727
00:41:10,068 --> 00:41:12,939
- Someone out there has her--
I could walk past her any day,
728
00:41:13,004 --> 00:41:14,973
and she wouldn't know
her own father.
729
00:41:15,039 --> 00:41:16,442
Back to you, Bill.
730
00:41:27,317 --> 00:41:30,556
"Dear Oprah...
731
00:41:30,820 --> 00:41:32,556
"I'm writing to you because...
732
00:41:32,822 --> 00:41:35,159
"I can't think of anyone else
who can help me.
733
00:41:38,127 --> 00:41:40,397
"I've recently found out
the woman who raised me
734
00:41:40,463 --> 00:41:43,569
"is not my mother.
735
00:41:43,832 --> 00:41:45,434
"I had a healthy baby girl
736
00:41:45,500 --> 00:41:49,040
"and moved to Atlanta
to be near my aunt.
737
00:41:49,104 --> 00:41:52,910
"My baby makes me happy,
738
00:41:52,974 --> 00:41:55,178
"but inside, I feel lost.
739
00:41:58,212 --> 00:42:01,985
"Can you help me find
my parents?
740
00:42:02,048 --> 00:42:05,922
"I need to know the truth
in a life filled with lies.
741
00:42:05,986 --> 00:42:08,557
"Sincerely...
742
00:42:08,622 --> 00:42:10,959
Nejdra Nance."
743
00:42:11,024 --> 00:42:13,428
Smile!
744
00:42:13,493 --> 00:42:15,028
Perfect.
745
00:42:15,094 --> 00:42:17,999
- Have a great day, beautiful!
- Bye!
746
00:42:18,063 --> 00:42:20,333
Bye!
747
00:42:20,398 --> 00:42:22,937
- My name is...
- Maya Nance.
748
00:42:23,002 --> 00:42:25,272
I'm 6 years old.
- And I live in...
749
00:42:25,337 --> 00:42:28,543
- Atlanta, Georgia.
- But I was born in...
750
00:42:28,607 --> 00:42:31,244
- Bridgeport...
Con-nect-i-cut.
751
00:42:31,308 --> 00:42:33,146
Very good--
that's hard to say.
752
00:42:33,211 --> 00:42:35,415
Your teacher's
gonna be very happy.
753
00:42:35,479 --> 00:42:37,249
- Mama?
- Mm-hmm?
754
00:42:37,314 --> 00:42:40,421
Were you born
in Con-nect-i-cut, too?
755
00:42:40,484 --> 00:42:43,188
I don't know
where I was born, baby,
756
00:42:43,253 --> 00:42:46,158
but I'm gonna find out.
757
00:43:02,671 --> 00:43:05,208
- Look at this.
- You on that web site again?
758
00:43:05,273 --> 00:43:08,613
No, look at this--
she was born July 15, 1987.
759
00:43:08,677 --> 00:43:10,179
That's about right.
760
00:43:10,245 --> 00:43:12,582
I was born July 31, 1987.
761
00:43:12,647 --> 00:43:16,053
You think it's me?
762
00:43:16,116 --> 00:43:17,686
Mm... that baby ain't you.
763
00:43:17,951 --> 00:43:19,588
She got too much hair.
764
00:43:19,654 --> 00:43:22,025
She looks just like Maya did.
765
00:43:22,089 --> 00:43:24,092
Look again, for real.
766
00:43:32,131 --> 00:43:34,435
She does look like you did
at that age.
767
00:43:34,500 --> 00:43:36,670
"Carlina Renae White
was last seen
768
00:43:36,935 --> 00:43:39,140
in the Harlem Hospital
Children's Ward."
769
00:43:39,205 --> 00:43:40,941
Hm-mmm... Ann's twisted,
770
00:43:41,006 --> 00:43:44,278
but she wouldn't have done
all that.
771
00:43:44,342 --> 00:43:47,281
Call the number.
772
00:43:49,114 --> 00:43:51,016
Center for Missing
and Exploited Children...
773
00:43:51,082 --> 00:43:52,585
This is Keith.
774
00:43:52,650 --> 00:43:54,653
I may have information
on a missing child.
775
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:56,488
Well, we're not sure
she's missing.
776
00:43:56,553 --> 00:43:59,091
She's missing.
777
00:43:59,156 --> 00:44:01,126
She thinks she was abducted
from a hospital.
778
00:44:01,192 --> 00:44:02,594
Is the child
in immediate danger?
779
00:44:02,659 --> 00:44:04,629
No, but we been trying
to get information
780
00:44:04,695 --> 00:44:06,965
for the last five years
with no luck.
781
00:44:07,030 --> 00:44:08,532
Can you tell me
something about her?
782
00:44:08,599 --> 00:44:10,601
- Like what?
- How old is she?
783
00:44:10,666 --> 00:44:13,438
- 23.
- And her race?
784
00:44:13,502 --> 00:44:15,607
I guess African-American--
could be Dominican.
785
00:44:15,671 --> 00:44:17,508
Probably African-American.
786
00:44:17,573 --> 00:44:20,010
Does she have any
identifying characteristics--
787
00:44:20,075 --> 00:44:23,147
any birthmarks?
- No.
788
00:44:23,212 --> 00:44:25,516
Yes, she has a birthmark
on her right arm.
789
00:44:25,580 --> 00:44:27,283
Right, a birthmark.
790
00:44:27,349 --> 00:44:30,187
Who is "she"--
who's missing?
791
00:44:30,251 --> 00:44:32,756
Me.
792
00:44:33,020 --> 00:44:34,758
I am.
793
00:44:35,022 --> 00:44:37,260
Keith, take a look at this.
794
00:44:37,325 --> 00:44:39,996
Okay, we took the photograph
that Nejdra Nance sent us
795
00:44:40,060 --> 00:44:41,630
of her at 6 months,
796
00:44:41,695 --> 00:44:44,600
and the one Joy White sent us
of Baby Carlina at 9 days old.
797
00:44:44,665 --> 00:44:47,069
We did an aging progression
sequence on both,
798
00:44:47,134 --> 00:44:49,071
and I think we have a match.
799
00:45:09,053 --> 00:45:11,658
Carlina's alive!
800
00:45:11,722 --> 00:45:15,028
Oh, God--praise God!
801
00:45:15,093 --> 00:45:18,331
My baby's alive--
it's Carlina!
802
00:45:18,396 --> 00:45:21,534
My daughter--
she's alive.
803
00:45:27,271 --> 00:45:29,375
What's up?
804
00:45:29,439 --> 00:45:31,408
They think they found her.
805
00:45:31,474 --> 00:45:33,211
My God.
806
00:45:33,276 --> 00:45:35,213
She's living in Atlanta.
807
00:45:35,278 --> 00:45:36,647
How do they know it's her?
808
00:45:36,712 --> 00:45:38,715
We have to take DNA tests.
809
00:45:38,781 --> 00:45:42,822
We shouldn't get our hopes up.
810
00:45:43,084 --> 00:45:44,822
Look at this, Carl.
811
00:45:48,623 --> 00:45:50,760
She has my eyes.
812
00:45:53,227 --> 00:45:56,166
Oh, my God, Joy, I--
813
00:45:56,230 --> 00:45:58,500
It's her.
814
00:45:58,565 --> 00:46:00,402
We found our baby girl!
815
00:46:31,496 --> 00:46:35,202
- "He secretly wept at night.
- "...at night.
816
00:46:35,266 --> 00:46:39,841
"He felt nobody wanted him.
817
00:46:40,103 --> 00:46:42,875
"Why am I d--
818
00:46:43,139 --> 00:46:47,481
"different from my brothers?"
819
00:46:47,543 --> 00:46:50,716
Oh, look at you readin'!
820
00:46:50,780 --> 00:46:53,418
Look at you!
821
00:46:53,483 --> 00:46:56,254
- He's not ugly.
- He ugly for a duckling.
822
00:46:57,887 --> 00:46:59,857
- Grandma?
- Yeah, baby?
823
00:47:00,122 --> 00:47:02,259
Why do you live so far away?
824
00:47:02,324 --> 00:47:04,327
I want you to come live
with us one day.
825
00:47:04,393 --> 00:47:07,264
Oh, that' sweet, baby--
maybe one day.
826
00:47:07,328 --> 00:47:10,868
Mama, Grandma Ann might
come live with us one day.
827
00:47:11,132 --> 00:47:13,536
Maya, will you leave
me and Grandma
828
00:47:13,601 --> 00:47:16,908
alone for a minute?
829
00:47:17,171 --> 00:47:19,376
- All right, bye, Smarty-Pants.
- Bye.
830
00:47:19,441 --> 00:47:21,443
- We gonna read later, okay?
- Okay.
831
00:47:21,509 --> 00:47:25,149
All right-- she readin' so good!
832
00:47:29,217 --> 00:47:31,888
I need to know
about my parents.
833
00:47:34,421 --> 00:47:36,758
Netty, I didn't come down here
to argue with you.
834
00:47:36,823 --> 00:47:38,893
Mama, no matter
what you say,
835
00:47:39,159 --> 00:47:43,366
as long as it's the truth,
I won't get mad.
836
00:47:43,430 --> 00:47:46,468
I promise.
837
00:47:48,234 --> 00:47:52,375
You want to know the truth?
838
00:47:52,438 --> 00:47:54,708
Hmm?
- Yes.
839
00:47:54,773 --> 00:47:56,877
Okay.
840
00:48:01,379 --> 00:48:03,950
Your mama was a crack ho.
841
00:48:04,215 --> 00:48:06,620
You was a crack baby--
she didn't want you,
842
00:48:06,684 --> 00:48:09,890
so I took you in,
and now you sittin' up here
843
00:48:09,954 --> 00:48:11,891
treatin' me like I did
something wrong.
844
00:48:11,956 --> 00:48:14,794
Puttin' me on trial
like I did something wrong...
845
00:48:14,858 --> 00:48:17,630
when I did the right thing.
846
00:48:17,694 --> 00:48:19,431
You know what I shoulda done?
847
00:48:19,496 --> 00:48:21,633
I shoulda left your little
crackhead behind
848
00:48:21,698 --> 00:48:23,634
out on the street,
just like your mama.
849
00:48:23,699 --> 00:48:25,669
- Get out!
- It's in the genes!
850
00:48:25,734 --> 00:48:27,305
- Get out!
- Get out?!
851
00:48:27,370 --> 00:48:28,972
Girl, who you think
you're talkin' to?
852
00:48:29,238 --> 00:48:31,676
I'm talkin' to you--
I want you out of my house.
853
00:48:31,740 --> 00:48:33,644
Take all your stuff and get out.
854
00:48:33,709 --> 00:48:37,715
All I wanted was--
855
00:48:37,779 --> 00:48:41,319
All I wanted was the truth.
856
00:48:41,383 --> 00:48:43,252
That's all.
857
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:49,259
I don't need this!
858
00:49:12,611 --> 00:49:15,383
Hello.
859
00:49:15,447 --> 00:49:17,784
Is Joy White there?
860
00:50:02,890 --> 00:50:05,729
Thanks.
861
00:50:20,607 --> 00:50:22,811
Baby.
862
00:50:26,379 --> 00:50:29,551
It's you.
863
00:50:29,615 --> 00:50:31,785
Here, let me get a hug.
864
00:50:35,955 --> 00:50:37,892
You must be Maya.
865
00:50:37,957 --> 00:50:40,861
Ohh...
866
00:50:53,070 --> 00:50:55,942
Carlina, this is your Aunt Lisa.
867
00:50:56,006 --> 00:50:58,076
She's been crying all day.
868
00:50:58,341 --> 00:51:00,678
And this is your auntie
and your uncle.
869
00:51:00,743 --> 00:51:03,415
There's your cousin
back there.
870
00:51:04,647 --> 00:51:07,686
This is your half-sister Tina.
871
00:51:07,750 --> 00:51:09,887
And this is your
half-brother Trey.
872
00:51:09,952 --> 00:51:11,855
How y'all doin', everybody?
873
00:51:11,921 --> 00:51:13,823
This is my daughter, Maya.
874
00:51:13,889 --> 00:51:17,095
Praise be to God!
875
00:51:17,359 --> 00:51:19,061
Welcome home, child!
876
00:51:19,127 --> 00:51:21,464
I'm your Grandmother Elizabeth.
877
00:51:21,530 --> 00:51:23,099
Thank you, Grandmother.
878
00:51:28,569 --> 00:51:30,572
Let us pray.
879
00:51:36,476 --> 00:51:38,446
Heavenly Father,
880
00:51:38,512 --> 00:51:42,686
You are a mystery
we cannot comprehend.
881
00:51:42,749 --> 00:51:45,386
None of us know
why we are meant to suffer,
882
00:51:45,451 --> 00:51:47,789
but we do believe
in Your infinite wisdom.
883
00:51:47,854 --> 00:51:51,961
There is always
a reason and a purpose.
884
00:51:52,025 --> 00:51:55,698
We hope that one day
you will reveal it.
885
00:51:55,761 --> 00:51:57,764
And we pray that one day
886
00:51:57,829 --> 00:52:00,167
we will forgive those
that took Carlina away.
887
00:52:01,533 --> 00:52:03,770
Most of all, we thank you
888
00:52:03,834 --> 00:52:06,640
for returning
our lost daughters to us.
889
00:52:06,704 --> 00:52:08,908
Amen.
- Amen.
890
00:52:08,973 --> 00:52:12,145
Amen.
891
00:52:16,513 --> 00:52:18,048
We didn't know
what you'd like,
892
00:52:18,114 --> 00:52:20,686
so we made you
macaroni and cheese, and...
893
00:52:20,751 --> 00:52:22,955
curry chicken
894
00:52:23,019 --> 00:52:25,690
and lasagna and ox-tail soup.
895
00:52:28,058 --> 00:52:29,860
And that's just to start.
896
00:52:49,010 --> 00:52:51,681
You got your daddy's eyes.
897
00:52:51,745 --> 00:52:53,515
And I love music.
898
00:52:53,581 --> 00:52:56,687
That's because I used to sing
to you when you were a baby.
899
00:52:56,750 --> 00:52:59,722
I'm a neat freak--
I clean all the time.
900
00:52:59,787 --> 00:53:01,756
I know where she
got that from.
901
00:53:01,822 --> 00:53:04,826
I wish you would have gotten
some of the same from me, too.
902
00:53:06,459 --> 00:53:08,529
Was the woman who snatched you
a neat freak?
903
00:53:08,595 --> 00:53:10,565
Not like me and Joy.
904
00:53:10,630 --> 00:53:13,668
Is it true that the news
said you grew up on welfare?
905
00:53:13,732 --> 00:53:15,068
- Tina!
- And drugs...
906
00:53:15,134 --> 00:53:17,505
They said the woman
who raised you was on drugs.
907
00:53:17,569 --> 00:53:19,706
- That's enough!
- I just want to know
908
00:53:19,771 --> 00:53:22,208
about her life.
- It's okay.
909
00:53:22,473 --> 00:53:25,111
The house I grew up in
was nothin' like this.
910
00:53:25,176 --> 00:53:29,784
And the woman that took me
is nothin' like Joy.
911
00:53:29,847 --> 00:53:33,521
But you can't believe everything
you hear on the news.
912
00:53:38,055 --> 00:53:41,194
Where'd you learn
how to do hair like this?
913
00:53:41,258 --> 00:53:44,162
When I was 6, this Christmas,
914
00:53:44,227 --> 00:53:47,232
my mom got me a doll.
- Your mom?
915
00:53:53,736 --> 00:53:55,840
Styling's a good skill
to have.
916
00:53:55,904 --> 00:53:57,507
I know.
917
00:53:57,573 --> 00:54:00,010
I just started working
at this hair salon part-time
918
00:54:00,075 --> 00:54:02,646
I know I'll always be able
to make money as a stylist.
919
00:54:02,710 --> 00:54:05,014
People will spend
their rent money on their hair.
920
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:08,986
But what are you thinking
about college?
921
00:54:09,049 --> 00:54:12,523
I don't know yet.
922
00:54:12,586 --> 00:54:15,124
Carlina...
923
00:54:15,189 --> 00:54:17,726
we may not have
the past together,
924
00:54:17,791 --> 00:54:20,162
but we will have a future.
925
00:54:23,664 --> 00:54:26,035
Are you mad
at Ann Pettway?
926
00:54:26,099 --> 00:54:29,038
- What do you think?
- Was she mean?
927
00:54:29,102 --> 00:54:31,973
Was she scary--
what was she like?
928
00:54:32,037 --> 00:54:34,776
She had two sides.
929
00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:36,677
One time she got so mad at me
930
00:54:36,742 --> 00:54:39,279
that she hit me in the face
with a shoe.
931
00:54:39,544 --> 00:54:41,614
Then she felt so bad
she figured out a way
932
00:54:41,680 --> 00:54:44,117
to sneak me and all my friends
into the movies.
933
00:54:44,182 --> 00:54:47,154
Wow... a shoe?
934
00:54:49,821 --> 00:54:51,890
What was it like for you,
growing up here?
935
00:54:51,956 --> 00:54:54,025
Wasn't perfect.
936
00:54:54,090 --> 00:54:58,098
Ma was always worried something
would happen to me or Trey.
937
00:54:58,161 --> 00:55:01,634
We didn't have much freedom.
938
00:55:01,698 --> 00:55:04,036
You know,
she cried a lot for you.
939
00:55:04,100 --> 00:55:06,705
I'm sorry.
940
00:55:06,769 --> 00:55:08,739
Yeah, well, she's happy now,
941
00:55:08,805 --> 00:55:11,644
so even if the DNA
doesn't match,
942
00:55:11,708 --> 00:55:15,014
can you still come visit?
943
00:55:15,077 --> 00:55:17,781
Just you being here
gives her hope.
944
00:55:22,684 --> 00:55:24,153
Hey, it's me.
945
00:55:24,219 --> 00:55:26,690
What took you so long to call?
946
00:55:26,754 --> 00:55:28,591
We had a big family dinner.
947
00:55:28,656 --> 00:55:31,728
- Is DNA back?
- They're my parents--I know it.
948
00:55:31,792 --> 00:55:36,200
Kinda feels like home.
- That's great.
949
00:55:36,263 --> 00:55:38,300
Why don't you sound
happy for me?
950
00:55:38,365 --> 00:55:41,838
Netty, just don't forget
who you are.
951
00:55:41,901 --> 00:55:45,040
Okay?
952
00:56:01,854 --> 00:56:03,856
- Hey!
- You're late.
953
00:56:03,922 --> 00:56:05,991
You were supposed to be here
an hour ago.
954
00:56:06,056 --> 00:56:08,729
Sorry, I got held up at work.
955
00:56:16,200 --> 00:56:18,637
What?
956
00:56:18,702 --> 00:56:20,872
Do I have somethin' on my face
or somethin'?
957
00:56:20,937 --> 00:56:23,007
Nah.
958
00:56:23,072 --> 00:56:25,778
You don't understand what
me and your mother went through.
959
00:56:25,842 --> 00:56:29,648
Just seeing you standing here...
960
00:56:31,647 --> 00:56:35,053
So... if you could do
anything today,
961
00:56:35,117 --> 00:56:37,354
what would you do?
962
00:56:37,419 --> 00:56:40,792
I'd like to do a girl thing,
like get my hair done,
963
00:56:40,855 --> 00:56:43,694
but...
- But what?
964
00:56:43,758 --> 00:56:45,227
I'll take you.
965
00:56:45,293 --> 00:56:47,665
- Might feel strange
having a man come with me.
966
00:56:47,729 --> 00:56:51,001
Well, I ain't a man--
I'm your dad.
967
00:56:51,065 --> 00:56:53,436
- Papers haven't come back yet.
- You giving me attitude?
968
00:56:53,700 --> 00:56:56,740
Sorry.
969
00:56:56,804 --> 00:56:59,743
I've never had a father before.
970
00:57:33,236 --> 00:57:34,740
It's positive.
971
00:57:34,805 --> 00:57:36,307
It's positive?
972
00:57:36,373 --> 00:57:38,778
Thank you, God.
973
00:57:38,843 --> 00:57:42,249
- Mmm!
- Mmm!
974
00:57:42,312 --> 00:57:45,718
- It's a miracle!
- I knew it.
975
00:57:45,782 --> 00:57:48,219
I knew it... from the first time
I saw that picture.
976
00:57:48,284 --> 00:57:50,321
Oh, the phone's been
ringin' off the hook.
977
00:57:50,386 --> 00:57:54,260
The press is comin' by tomorrow
to interview us here.
978
00:57:54,323 --> 00:57:57,061
It's official now, Maya.
979
00:57:57,125 --> 00:57:58,728
You can call me "Grandma."
980
00:57:58,794 --> 00:58:00,998
Just like Grandma Ann?
981
00:58:06,868 --> 00:58:08,871
Aw, come here!
982
00:58:08,936 --> 00:58:12,242
- Mmm!
- Mmm!
983
00:58:12,306 --> 00:58:14,944
We can come down to Atlanta
next weekend
984
00:58:15,009 --> 00:58:17,179
and help you and Maya
move up here.
985
00:58:25,085 --> 00:58:26,922
Carlina White,
who was kidnapped
986
00:58:26,987 --> 00:58:29,257
from Harlem Hospital
over 22 years ago
987
00:58:29,322 --> 00:58:31,024
solved her own kidnapping.
988
00:58:31,090 --> 00:58:33,093
She will be reunited
with her biological parents--
989
00:58:35,260 --> 00:58:38,499
--today in what is sure to
be an emotional reunion.
990
00:58:38,764 --> 00:58:41,235
In local news,
police say a propane explosion
991
00:58:41,299 --> 00:58:43,771
destroyed
a suburban Charlotte house
992
00:58:43,835 --> 00:58:46,840
that killed a toddler
and injured 17 other people.
993
00:58:46,905 --> 00:58:49,109
Investigators
are on the scene now.
994
00:58:49,173 --> 00:58:51,310
In other news, Michelle Obama...
995
00:59:24,573 --> 00:59:26,242
I'm Special Agent Thompson.
996
00:59:26,307 --> 00:59:28,811
Thank you for coming in.
- Happy to help out.
997
00:59:28,876 --> 00:59:31,114
It's the kind of case that
haunts you even into retirement.
998
00:59:31,179 --> 00:59:33,349
Is there anything that didn't
make it into this file?
999
00:59:33,414 --> 00:59:35,283
We interviewed just about
anyone breathing
1000
00:59:35,348 --> 00:59:37,286
at Harlem Hospital that night--
a number of people
1001
00:59:37,350 --> 00:59:39,388
I.D another woman
besides Pettway as the perp.
1002
00:59:39,453 --> 00:59:41,256
We tracked her
down to Baltimore,
1003
00:59:41,321 --> 00:59:43,358
but couldn't pin it on her.
- Your gut?
1004
00:59:43,423 --> 00:59:45,058
It's the woman who raised her.
1005
00:59:45,124 --> 00:59:47,294
I'm about to run into another
conference--what's up?
1006
00:59:47,359 --> 00:59:48,930
Have you heard from Ann?
1007
00:59:48,995 --> 00:59:50,297
- No, why?
- The police
1008
00:59:50,362 --> 00:59:52,133
came looking for here--
they say she disappeared.
1009
00:59:52,198 --> 00:59:55,036
She's not answering
her phone--I'm worried.
1010
00:59:55,101 --> 00:59:57,505
Look the conference
is about to start--I gotta go.
1011
01:00:25,195 --> 01:00:27,934
- Fill it up, please.
- Yeah, sure.
1012
01:00:34,937 --> 01:00:36,874
Nope.
1013
01:00:36,939 --> 01:00:38,608
This one's declined.
1014
01:00:38,874 --> 01:00:40,877
Oh.
1015
01:00:44,579 --> 01:00:47,016
Try that one.
- Okay.
1016
01:00:54,321 --> 01:00:56,024
Hunh-unh.
1017
01:00:56,089 --> 01:00:59,629
Sorry.
1018
01:00:59,893 --> 01:01:03,266
Can I pay another way?
1019
01:01:03,329 --> 01:01:04,900
Cash.
1020
01:01:07,534 --> 01:01:09,604
I got a computer in the--
1021
01:01:09,669 --> 01:01:13,442
--car.
1022
01:01:13,505 --> 01:01:15,575
Lady...
1023
01:01:15,641 --> 01:01:18,213
we don't take computers.
1024
01:01:18,277 --> 01:01:20,079
Mm-hmm?
1025
01:01:20,146 --> 01:01:22,450
Yeah.
1026
01:01:22,514 --> 01:01:25,252
All right.
1027
01:01:30,655 --> 01:01:32,625
...23 years ago,
1028
01:01:32,690 --> 01:01:35,327
White has reunited
with her biological parents.
1029
01:01:35,393 --> 01:01:38,331
Pettway is believed to be
in the tri state area.
1030
01:01:48,938 --> 01:01:51,242
How do I feel?
1031
01:01:51,307 --> 01:01:54,446
I feel complete.
1032
01:01:54,510 --> 01:01:56,714
I've always dreamed
about this.
1033
01:01:56,978 --> 01:01:59,316
Now after 23 years...
1034
01:01:59,380 --> 01:02:01,151
I can sleep.
1035
01:02:01,216 --> 01:02:03,955
Do you have anything to
say to Ann Pettway?
1036
01:02:04,019 --> 01:02:05,621
I want her to suffer.
1037
01:02:05,687 --> 01:02:08,024
I want her to do time
like I suffered
1038
01:02:08,089 --> 01:02:10,494
for 23 years.
1039
01:02:10,558 --> 01:02:13,129
Carl, you said before you
didn't want to press charges.
1040
01:02:13,194 --> 01:02:14,563
Do you still feel that way,
1041
01:02:14,628 --> 01:02:16,431
or have your feelings
changed over the years?
1042
01:02:16,496 --> 01:02:18,467
Well they have changed
over the years,
1043
01:02:18,532 --> 01:02:21,036
but right about now,
whatever the court decides,
1044
01:02:21,101 --> 01:02:23,171
that's all right with me.
1045
01:02:23,236 --> 01:02:25,306
I don't want to say
too much about it,
1046
01:02:25,371 --> 01:02:28,343
because I got
other things in my heart.
1047
01:02:28,407 --> 01:02:30,979
Can I get a shot of the
three of you, please?
1048
01:02:31,044 --> 01:02:32,179
Sure.
1049
01:02:32,245 --> 01:02:34,147
Great.
1050
01:02:34,213 --> 01:02:36,551
How about a kiss on the cheek
by both parents?
1051
01:02:38,583 --> 01:02:41,055
Nice, thank you.
1052
01:02:41,120 --> 01:02:42,689
- All right, thanks.
- Carlina,
1053
01:02:42,754 --> 01:02:45,024
do you have anything to say
about Ann Pettway?
1054
01:02:45,089 --> 01:02:47,694
Is it true she was
drug-addicted and abusive?
1055
01:02:51,195 --> 01:02:53,098
When I look at Joy White,
1056
01:02:53,164 --> 01:02:55,201
I see me.
1057
01:02:55,266 --> 01:02:57,403
With Ann, my mother,
1058
01:02:57,468 --> 01:03:00,005
the other lady--
I don't know what to call her--
1059
01:03:00,070 --> 01:03:02,642
I would always be searching
for things we had in common,
1060
01:03:02,706 --> 01:03:05,343
but we had nothing in common.
1061
01:03:05,408 --> 01:03:07,378
All right, no more questions--
we gotta go.
1062
01:03:07,443 --> 01:03:09,514
Thanks--thank you--
excuse me.
1063
01:03:09,579 --> 01:03:11,683
Hey.
1064
01:03:14,150 --> 01:03:18,291
Can you believe this?
1065
01:03:18,354 --> 01:03:21,693
Oh, God is so good.
1066
01:03:21,757 --> 01:03:24,462
Hello?
1067
01:03:24,526 --> 01:03:26,630
Hello?
1068
01:03:28,529 --> 01:03:30,332
So what do you think, Carlina?
1069
01:03:30,398 --> 01:03:32,702
She wants to fly us to Chicago
and everything.
1070
01:03:32,767 --> 01:03:35,372
I don't feel like sittin'
on Oprah's couch for an hour
1071
01:03:35,436 --> 01:03:37,071
talkin' about Ann.
1072
01:03:39,106 --> 01:03:40,541
What's wrong?
1073
01:03:40,607 --> 01:03:43,612
Cassandra's flippin' out,
and Ann's missing.
1074
01:03:43,677 --> 01:03:46,214
You don't have to worry
about them anymore.
1075
01:03:46,280 --> 01:03:48,049
They're not your family, Carlina.
1076
01:03:51,550 --> 01:03:54,622
I know it's you--
say something!
1077
01:03:57,256 --> 01:04:00,294
- I know this looks bad.
- You stole my life!
1078
01:04:00,358 --> 01:04:01,694
Is that her--is that Ann?
1079
01:04:01,760 --> 01:04:04,598
Just give her a minute--
it's okay.
1080
01:04:04,662 --> 01:04:07,300
Look, just give me a minute,
and I'm-a straighten this out.
1081
01:04:07,365 --> 01:04:09,235
I'm-a straighten it out, okay?
1082
01:04:09,301 --> 01:04:11,070
Either you did it
or you didn't.
1083
01:04:11,135 --> 01:04:13,573
You never take responsibility
for anything!
1084
01:04:13,638 --> 01:04:17,711
Netty!
1085
01:04:28,318 --> 01:04:30,188
Federal Bureau
of Investigation,
1086
01:04:30,253 --> 01:04:32,423
How can I help you?
1087
01:04:40,429 --> 01:04:42,733
My name is Ann Pettway.
1088
01:04:42,797 --> 01:04:44,400
I'm here to straighten out
this mess.
1089
01:04:44,466 --> 01:04:46,403
Where's your boss?
1090
01:04:51,405 --> 01:04:53,509
Tell me what happened.
1091
01:04:59,513 --> 01:05:03,219
There was this girl,
1092
01:05:03,283 --> 01:05:05,620
and she loved dolls--
1093
01:05:08,255 --> 01:05:12,596
- --all kind of dolls,
1094
01:05:12,658 --> 01:05:16,767
but she got tired
of these dolls because...
1095
01:05:16,829 --> 01:05:18,865
they couldn't walk.
1096
01:05:19,131 --> 01:05:21,468
They couldn't talk.
1097
01:05:21,533 --> 01:05:23,770
They couldn't love her back.
1098
01:05:23,835 --> 01:05:27,441
So she got pregnant...
1099
01:05:27,505 --> 01:05:29,275
three times.
1100
01:05:31,675 --> 01:05:34,815
And every time the baby died.
1101
01:05:38,181 --> 01:05:40,419
And that wasn't fair, was it?
1102
01:05:45,555 --> 01:05:47,626
Was it?
1103
01:05:47,691 --> 01:05:50,463
No.
1104
01:05:50,527 --> 01:05:52,497
It wasn't fair.
1105
01:05:57,167 --> 01:06:00,205
She just wanted somebody
to love her back.
1106
01:06:02,338 --> 01:06:04,375
Ann Pettway,
you're under arrest
1107
01:06:04,440 --> 01:06:07,512
for the kidnapping
of Carlina Renae White.
1108
01:06:14,349 --> 01:06:16,252
Will you tell my daughter now?
1109
01:06:22,890 --> 01:06:25,895
Why don't we get
a mani-pedi?
1110
01:06:25,960 --> 01:06:28,531
I think it's time to go home.
1111
01:06:28,595 --> 01:06:30,967
Ok, let's go home.
1112
01:06:31,231 --> 01:06:33,536
No, I mean back home
to Atlanta.
1113
01:06:33,600 --> 01:06:36,505
No, don't--you--
1114
01:06:36,570 --> 01:06:38,406
Am I being too pushy?
1115
01:06:38,471 --> 01:06:40,241
No! No, it's not that.
1116
01:06:40,306 --> 01:06:42,343
I appreciate all of this,
really I do.
1117
01:06:43,843 --> 01:06:46,448
A reporter told me
about the trust fund,
1118
01:06:46,512 --> 01:06:48,248
and I was hoping to take
that money,
1119
01:06:48,313 --> 01:06:49,849
close out my life in Atlanta,
1120
01:06:49,915 --> 01:06:51,885
and--I don't know--
1121
01:06:51,951 --> 01:06:53,787
maybe get a place up here.
1122
01:06:53,853 --> 01:06:56,691
That way I'd be closer.
1123
01:06:56,754 --> 01:06:58,425
Carlina...
1124
01:06:58,490 --> 01:07:00,360
What?
1125
01:07:04,762 --> 01:07:07,734
The trust fund dissolved
when you were 21.
1126
01:07:07,798 --> 01:07:09,301
What happened to it?
1127
01:07:09,367 --> 01:07:11,971
We needed that money.
1128
01:07:12,235 --> 01:07:15,407
Were you ever gonna tell me?
1129
01:07:15,472 --> 01:07:17,409
I'm sorry, Carlina.
1130
01:07:17,474 --> 01:07:19,010
I--
1131
01:07:20,843 --> 01:07:22,880
Hey, Carlina,
do you have a quote?
1132
01:07:22,945 --> 01:07:24,982
Carlina White! Carlina!
1133
01:07:25,247 --> 01:07:27,250
Ann Pettway turned
herself in--any thoughts?
1134
01:07:27,316 --> 01:07:29,653
Do you have anything
to say to Ann Pettway?
1135
01:07:29,718 --> 01:07:32,290
- No comment.
- How was the reunion?
1136
01:07:32,354 --> 01:07:34,558
We want to hear
your side of the story!
1137
01:07:36,024 --> 01:07:39,664
Auntie!
1138
01:07:39,728 --> 01:07:42,833
Hey, pretty girl!
1139
01:07:42,898 --> 01:07:44,900
Did you miss me?
- Mm-hmm.
1140
01:07:44,965 --> 01:07:47,303
Could you come to New York
with us next time?
1141
01:07:47,368 --> 01:07:48,870
- W--
- Maya,
1142
01:07:48,936 --> 01:07:51,908
go put your stuff in your room--
I'll be there in a minute.
1143
01:07:51,972 --> 01:07:53,774
- 'kay.
- Netty: 'kay.
1144
01:07:56,510 --> 01:07:58,780
- So you heard the news?
1145
01:07:58,845 --> 01:08:00,548
- I saw it on TV.
1146
01:08:00,614 --> 01:08:02,350
Her lawyers want
to meet with you
1147
01:08:02,415 --> 01:08:04,051
so they can discuss strategy.
1148
01:08:04,316 --> 01:08:06,721
I can't.
1149
01:08:06,785 --> 01:08:08,788
You can and you will.
1150
01:08:08,854 --> 01:08:11,659
She's family.
1151
01:08:11,723 --> 01:08:13,026
Netty, you hear me?
1152
01:08:13,291 --> 01:08:15,495
You can't leave her hangin'.
- Look,
1153
01:08:15,560 --> 01:08:18,732
I'm goin' by Carlina now.
- You're Netty to me.
1154
01:08:18,796 --> 01:08:21,735
- But my name is Carlina.
- Your name is Nejdra.
1155
01:08:21,799 --> 01:08:23,936
Not according
to my birth certificate.
1156
01:08:33,944 --> 01:08:36,449
- Rise and shine!
- Stop bangin'!
1157
01:08:36,513 --> 01:08:39,585
Rise and shine!
1158
01:08:46,054 --> 01:08:48,058
Pettway.
1159
01:09:37,035 --> 01:09:38,905
You gotta make her.
1160
01:09:38,970 --> 01:09:41,040
If they convict me,
it's 25 to life.
1161
01:09:41,105 --> 01:09:43,577
She don't wanna testify,
and she don't wanna see you.
1162
01:09:43,641 --> 01:09:45,378
You gotta make her!
1163
01:09:45,443 --> 01:09:47,613
I can't keep cleanin' up after
you where Netty's concerned.
1164
01:09:47,678 --> 01:09:50,015
She's her own person.
- Cassie...
1165
01:09:50,080 --> 01:09:53,052
Ann, you took that
child's life from her,
1166
01:09:53,116 --> 01:09:56,656
then you kept her in the dark
about her family for years.
1167
01:09:56,720 --> 01:09:59,425
You had plenty of opportunity
to make this right,
1168
01:09:59,489 --> 01:10:02,494
but you didn't.
1169
01:10:02,559 --> 01:10:04,896
What am I supposed to do now?
1170
01:10:34,488 --> 01:10:37,594
That woman took
everything from us.
1171
01:10:37,657 --> 01:10:39,762
All rise.
1172
01:10:46,866 --> 01:10:49,905
How does the defendant plead?
1173
01:10:49,968 --> 01:10:52,874
My client pleads
"not guilty," Your Honor.
1174
01:10:52,938 --> 01:10:55,709
- Not guilty?!
What?
1175
01:11:10,454 --> 01:11:12,624
"Dear Nejdra,
1176
01:11:12,689 --> 01:11:15,595
"I think of you every day.
1177
01:11:15,659 --> 01:11:19,699
"I miss you and Maya so much
it makes me want to cry.
1178
01:11:19,762 --> 01:11:22,634
"I hope I see you soon.
1179
01:11:22,698 --> 01:11:25,136
Love, your mother."
1180
01:11:28,137 --> 01:11:30,508
Has she returned
any of your calls?
1181
01:11:30,572 --> 01:11:32,075
I've left five messages.
1182
01:11:32,141 --> 01:11:34,010
Carl, we can't lose her
this time--we can't.
1183
01:11:34,076 --> 01:11:36,045
Now that's enough,
all right, excuse me.
1184
01:11:36,111 --> 01:11:38,081
What will you do
in the future?
1185
01:11:38,146 --> 01:11:40,618
Joy? Joy!
Give us a statement, please.
1186
01:11:40,682 --> 01:11:43,086
Hi, Carlina,
it's your mom.
1187
01:11:43,151 --> 01:11:46,724
I can't believe I can
actually say that to you now.
1188
01:11:46,787 --> 01:11:49,626
Listen, I tried to call you
the other day
1189
01:11:49,690 --> 01:11:51,092
and never heard back.
1190
01:11:51,158 --> 01:11:53,997
I tried texting you,
never heard back.
1191
01:11:54,061 --> 01:11:55,898
Carlina, please call
me and your father.
1192
01:11:55,963 --> 01:11:58,100
We need to hear from you.
1193
01:12:24,255 --> 01:12:26,994
Now I am happy
1194
01:12:27,057 --> 01:12:29,629
my daughter came back to me,
1195
01:12:29,694 --> 01:12:32,165
The problem we're having
right now is just...
1196
01:12:32,229 --> 01:12:34,967
it's hard for her
to cope with us.
1197
01:12:35,031 --> 01:12:37,569
She hasn't been with us
for 23 years.
1198
01:12:37,634 --> 01:12:40,138
Is there anything you'd
like to say to Carlina?
1199
01:12:43,239 --> 01:12:45,776
I love you.
1200
01:12:45,841 --> 01:12:48,213
I want you to come back.
1201
01:12:48,277 --> 01:12:51,182
Give us a chance.
1202
01:12:51,246 --> 01:12:54,251
Let's make--
make up for lost time.
1203
01:12:54,316 --> 01:12:57,121
I was on such a high
when I was first reunited
1204
01:12:57,186 --> 01:12:59,088
with my daughter.
1205
01:12:59,154 --> 01:13:01,925
You couldn't tell me nothin'
you know?
1206
01:13:01,990 --> 01:13:04,595
I was floatin' on air.
1207
01:13:04,659 --> 01:13:07,196
That was a great moment.
1208
01:13:07,261 --> 01:13:09,698
And then one day
after telling her story
1209
01:13:09,763 --> 01:13:11,800
to "The New York Post,"
1210
01:13:11,865 --> 01:13:14,302
she changed.
1211
01:13:14,568 --> 01:13:16,605
In just that day.
1212
01:13:16,670 --> 01:13:19,041
I think it had a lot to do
with the Pettway family.
1213
01:13:19,105 --> 01:13:22,745
She asked a lot of questions
about the money--
1214
01:13:22,808 --> 01:13:24,679
the trust fund
1215
01:13:24,744 --> 01:13:27,048
and the 10,000 reward.
1216
01:13:27,112 --> 01:13:28,916
That money's gone.
1217
01:13:28,981 --> 01:13:31,853
It really hurts
because it's about money.
1218
01:13:31,918 --> 01:13:35,591
She won't return my calls.
1219
01:13:48,165 --> 01:13:50,370
I'd like to change
my phone number.
1220
01:13:54,939 --> 01:13:57,310
Where's Grandpa Carl?
1221
01:13:57,374 --> 01:13:59,277
He's in New York.
1222
01:13:59,342 --> 01:14:01,613
Where's Grandma Joy?
1223
01:14:01,678 --> 01:14:03,180
She's in New York, too.
1224
01:14:03,246 --> 01:14:05,283
Can we visit her soon?
1225
01:14:05,347 --> 01:14:08,053
I don't know.
1226
01:14:08,117 --> 01:14:10,054
Where's Grandma Ann?
1227
01:14:10,119 --> 01:14:11,955
What's with all the questions?
1228
01:14:12,020 --> 01:14:14,224
Where's Grandma Ann?
1229
01:14:14,289 --> 01:14:16,059
She went away.
1230
01:14:16,124 --> 01:14:17,894
Is she mad at me?
1231
01:14:20,361 --> 01:14:22,999
No, baby, she's not
mad at you.
1232
01:14:23,064 --> 01:14:25,969
Sometimes people do bad things.
1233
01:14:26,033 --> 01:14:28,838
When they get caught,
they have to go away.
1234
01:14:28,903 --> 01:14:31,942
Did she say she was sorry?
1235
01:14:32,006 --> 01:14:33,808
When I do something bad,
1236
01:14:33,873 --> 01:14:36,879
I say sorry,
and you give me a hug.
1237
01:14:42,082 --> 01:14:45,421
Ms. Johnson,
1238
01:14:45,684 --> 01:14:47,789
What is your relationship
to the defendant?
1239
01:14:47,853 --> 01:14:50,057
Ann Pettway is my sister.
1240
01:14:50,122 --> 01:14:54,029
What you're saying she did
was despicable,
1241
01:14:54,093 --> 01:14:57,332
but I love my sister.
1242
01:14:57,395 --> 01:14:59,767
She's not perfect.
1243
01:14:59,831 --> 01:15:02,803
She's deeply flawed.
1244
01:15:02,867 --> 01:15:05,438
But she loves Netty
1245
01:15:05,703 --> 01:15:07,974
Ann is a good mother.
1246
01:15:10,074 --> 01:15:13,780
Ann Pettway knows
she caused a lot of pain.
1247
01:15:13,844 --> 01:15:16,348
She'd had several miscarriages,
1248
01:15:16,412 --> 01:15:19,987
and she never believed
she'd be able to be a parent.
1249
01:15:20,050 --> 01:15:23,856
So in my opinion,
she did kidnap Carlina White,
1250
01:15:23,919 --> 01:15:27,861
and she as much as confessed
to it in my office.
1251
01:15:46,707 --> 01:15:48,744
Get up.
1252
01:15:51,145 --> 01:15:52,915
Get up now.
1253
01:15:55,349 --> 01:15:58,888
What happened to your phone?
1254
01:15:58,951 --> 01:16:01,324
I disconnected it.
1255
01:16:01,388 --> 01:16:03,925
Needed to just drop out.
1256
01:16:03,990 --> 01:16:06,260
Well, you need
to drop back in.
1257
01:16:06,325 --> 01:16:08,930
Why--so I can help Ann?
1258
01:16:08,995 --> 01:16:11,099
Because you have
a life to live.
1259
01:16:11,164 --> 01:16:12,833
Whose life am I livin'?
1260
01:16:12,898 --> 01:16:14,468
Joy's?
1261
01:16:14,733 --> 01:16:16,168
Ann's? Yours?
1262
01:16:16,234 --> 01:16:18,438
If I spend time with Joy,
I'm betrayin' you.
1263
01:16:18,503 --> 01:16:21,008
If I spend time with you
and we talk about Ann,
1264
01:16:21,073 --> 01:16:23,444
I'm betrayin' Joy.
1265
01:16:30,247 --> 01:16:34,021
Look, I know this has
been hard on you.
1266
01:16:34,085 --> 01:16:36,956
I know I helped make it
hard on you.
1267
01:16:37,020 --> 01:16:40,761
Look, you can call yourself
Carlina or Nejdra.
1268
01:16:40,824 --> 01:16:42,259
I don't care.
1269
01:16:42,325 --> 01:16:44,830
It doesn't matter to me
what you call yourself.
1270
01:16:44,895 --> 01:16:46,797
Point is...
1271
01:16:46,862 --> 01:16:48,999
you gotta get up and get on
with your life.
1272
01:16:49,064 --> 01:16:51,836
I just keep wonderin'
what my life woulda been...
1273
01:16:54,336 --> 01:16:57,508
had I grown up
with my real parents.
1274
01:16:57,772 --> 01:16:59,142
Okay.
1275
01:17:01,509 --> 01:17:03,513
But where do you go
from here?
1276
01:17:22,495 --> 01:17:24,398
Mmm!
1277
01:17:27,434 --> 01:17:29,538
Thank you for comin'.
1278
01:17:36,841 --> 01:17:39,981
- About the money--
- Carlina...
1279
01:17:40,044 --> 01:17:44,052
Nobody told us to set
up that trust fund.
1280
01:17:44,115 --> 01:17:46,419
We had it for 21 years,
1281
01:17:46,484 --> 01:17:48,521
and if I had to do it
all over again,
1282
01:17:48,586 --> 01:17:50,389
I never would have spent it.
1283
01:17:50,455 --> 01:17:52,559
It's not about the money.
1284
01:17:52,823 --> 01:17:54,392
You could have told me.
1285
01:17:54,458 --> 01:17:56,195
But--
1286
01:17:56,260 --> 01:17:58,464
I'm just tired of people
keepin' things from me.
1287
01:18:01,431 --> 01:18:03,233
I'm sorry.
1288
01:18:05,835 --> 01:18:08,072
Why didn't you look harder?
1289
01:18:08,137 --> 01:18:09,940
Excuse me?
1290
01:18:10,006 --> 01:18:13,044
Anyone who knows me knows how
much I want to find my parents.
1291
01:18:13,108 --> 01:18:15,413
I searched and searched for you.
1292
01:18:15,478 --> 01:18:17,280
Why didn't you look harder?
1293
01:18:17,345 --> 01:18:20,284
Carlina, you have no idea
1294
01:18:20,348 --> 01:18:22,986
how hard we looked.
1295
01:18:23,051 --> 01:18:25,020
I knocked on more doors--
1296
01:18:25,085 --> 01:18:27,123
I passed out more flyers,
1297
01:18:27,188 --> 01:18:30,060
than you could have
ever imagined.
1298
01:18:30,124 --> 01:18:33,430
We couldn't find you!
1299
01:18:33,494 --> 01:18:37,168
But... we never stopped looking.
1300
01:18:37,231 --> 01:18:39,267
Sorry.
1301
01:18:44,603 --> 01:18:48,611
There's been so much pain.
1302
01:18:50,876 --> 01:18:54,082
I just want you to be happy,
Carlina.
1303
01:18:54,146 --> 01:18:56,517
But I'm just not ready.
1304
01:18:56,581 --> 01:18:58,651
I'm not ready
to leave my whole life
1305
01:18:58,916 --> 01:19:01,889
and start over as Carlina White.
1306
01:19:05,289 --> 01:19:09,263
You know, for the past 23 years,
1307
01:19:09,327 --> 01:19:13,568
I've talked to you in my head...
1308
01:19:13,630 --> 01:19:16,903
and in my dreams.
1309
01:19:16,967 --> 01:19:20,373
All this time,
you been a part of my life.
1310
01:19:22,372 --> 01:19:24,375
And you've only just found out
about me.
1311
01:19:29,111 --> 01:19:32,016
We'll take it slow.
1312
01:20:16,522 --> 01:20:18,993
My name is Joy White,
1313
01:20:19,057 --> 01:20:20,692
and I'm here to see Ann Pettway.
1314
01:20:20,959 --> 01:20:23,630
- Does she know you're coming?
- No.
1315
01:20:23,694 --> 01:20:26,132
Park over there--
we'll put you through security.
1316
01:20:54,056 --> 01:20:57,495
I could just slap that smile
off your face.
1317
01:20:57,559 --> 01:20:59,629
Is that why you're here?
1318
01:20:59,694 --> 01:21:02,065
I came here
1319
01:21:02,130 --> 01:21:04,435
because I have to find a way
to forgive you.
1320
01:21:11,372 --> 01:21:14,311
Why did you do it to me?
1321
01:21:14,375 --> 01:21:17,447
From over here, it don't look
like nothin' been done to you.
1322
01:21:19,279 --> 01:21:21,449
What you so upset for?
1323
01:21:21,514 --> 01:21:22,649
You got her now.
1324
01:21:22,715 --> 01:21:25,687
I may have Carlina now,
1325
01:21:25,751 --> 01:21:29,091
but you stole 23 years
of my life.
1326
01:21:29,155 --> 01:21:32,060
I wasn't there when Carlina
took her first step.
1327
01:21:32,124 --> 01:21:34,394
I didn't get to see her
go to the prom.
1328
01:21:34,460 --> 01:21:38,301
I wasn't there when she had
my grandbaby.
1329
01:21:38,364 --> 01:21:41,068
Those are moments
I'll never have.
1330
01:21:41,132 --> 01:21:43,503
- I lost three babies.
- I lost a child!
1331
01:21:43,567 --> 01:21:45,738
I didn't go around
stealin' nobody's babies!
1332
01:21:45,804 --> 01:21:47,740
See, that's what I'm sayin'--
you lost one.
1333
01:21:47,805 --> 01:21:50,544
I lost three--
I heard you got two more now.
1334
01:21:50,608 --> 01:21:53,079
They told me
I couldn't have none.
1335
01:21:53,143 --> 01:21:56,048
- That's no excuse!
- I needed that child, okay?
1336
01:22:02,319 --> 01:22:05,157
I saw y'all on TV,
1337
01:22:05,221 --> 01:22:07,826
and I thought about
givin' her back.
1338
01:22:08,090 --> 01:22:10,462
But then Netty
would look up at me.
1339
01:22:13,496 --> 01:22:16,335
People started sayin'
we looked alike.
1340
01:22:16,399 --> 01:22:18,736
They even called her
"Little Ann."
1341
01:22:20,668 --> 01:22:23,173
Every day, she became
more and more mine.
1342
01:22:23,238 --> 01:22:24,740
She wasn't yours--
she was mine!
1343
01:22:24,805 --> 01:22:28,547
I fed her!
1344
01:22:28,609 --> 01:22:30,446
I clothed her!
1345
01:22:30,512 --> 01:22:32,214
I taught her right from wrong!
1346
01:22:32,279 --> 01:22:34,683
That little girl
who you paradin' around
1347
01:22:34,748 --> 01:22:37,086
on TV and everything--
1348
01:22:37,151 --> 01:22:39,522
I did that!
1349
01:22:42,321 --> 01:22:44,259
You should be thankin' me.
1350
01:22:44,323 --> 01:22:46,394
- I should be thankin' you?
- Thank me!
1351
01:22:46,459 --> 01:22:49,131
It's takin' all I got not to
jump across this table
1352
01:22:49,195 --> 01:22:52,266
and kill you.
1353
01:22:56,568 --> 01:22:59,440
I know you hate me.
1354
01:22:59,504 --> 01:23:01,708
And I know, somebody like you,
1355
01:23:01,773 --> 01:23:04,478
you'll never understand this.
1356
01:23:04,543 --> 01:23:06,279
Somebody like you, you know--
1357
01:23:06,343 --> 01:23:10,285
--you got a lot of love
in your life.
1358
01:23:10,347 --> 01:23:12,752
Me...
1359
01:23:12,816 --> 01:23:15,521
I been lovin' people
and lovin' people
1360
01:23:15,586 --> 01:23:17,723
and doin' for people...
1361
01:23:19,656 --> 01:23:21,659
It's one thing
to love somebody,
1362
01:23:21,724 --> 01:23:24,563
but it's another thing
for somebody to love you back.
1363
01:23:27,764 --> 01:23:31,504
Netty loved me back.
1364
01:23:33,535 --> 01:23:36,908
I ain't ever felt that before.
1365
01:23:46,214 --> 01:23:49,386
You could have taken any
other child in that nursery.
1366
01:23:51,352 --> 01:23:53,856
Why'd you take mine?
1367
01:23:53,921 --> 01:23:56,258
Was it 'cause I was young?
1368
01:23:56,323 --> 01:23:58,895
It didn't' have nothin' to do
with you, Ms. White.
1369
01:23:59,159 --> 01:24:01,229
It had everything
to do with me!
1370
01:24:01,295 --> 01:24:03,666
It had everything
to do with me!
1371
01:24:19,245 --> 01:24:22,284
On August 4, 1987...
1372
01:24:25,518 --> 01:24:27,388
I went to Harlem Hospital.
1373
01:24:30,288 --> 01:24:31,758
I took a child.
1374
01:24:34,225 --> 01:24:35,929
I got back on the train,
1375
01:24:36,194 --> 01:24:38,231
I went back home,
1376
01:24:38,296 --> 01:24:40,767
And I raised her as my own.
1377
01:24:44,201 --> 01:24:46,204
I knew it was wrong.
1378
01:24:58,681 --> 01:24:59,984
Ann Pettway.
1379
01:25:03,486 --> 01:25:06,992
You've pleaded guilty
to one count of kidnapping.
1380
01:25:08,824 --> 01:25:11,295
In light of your confession,
1381
01:25:11,360 --> 01:25:14,532
the court hereby sentences you
to 12 years in prison.
1382
01:25:30,977 --> 01:25:32,781
That's it?
1383
01:25:32,846 --> 01:25:34,715
That's what our suffering's
worth?
1384
01:25:34,780 --> 01:25:36,551
I thought it was
a mandatory life sentence.
1385
01:25:36,616 --> 01:25:38,353
She plea bargained.
1386
01:25:38,418 --> 01:25:40,688
I lost you, I lost my family--
1387
01:25:40,753 --> 01:25:42,355
I lost everything.
1388
01:25:42,422 --> 01:25:43,924
We gotta appeal this.
1389
01:25:43,989 --> 01:25:46,661
We just gotta live with it.
1390
01:25:46,725 --> 01:25:49,730
All of it.
1391
01:25:49,794 --> 01:25:51,932
I have a few questions
for you, Carlina.
1392
01:25:51,996 --> 01:25:54,736
Or would you prefer
I called you Nejdra?
1393
01:25:54,799 --> 01:25:57,805
Or Netty?
1394
01:25:57,869 --> 01:26:00,573
I'm not Nejdra.
1395
01:26:00,638 --> 01:26:02,408
That's the name
that was forced on me.
1396
01:26:05,543 --> 01:26:07,980
I'm not Carlina.
1397
01:26:08,045 --> 01:26:10,784
That's the name
that was taken from me.
1398
01:26:19,455 --> 01:26:20,925
My name is Netty
1399
01:26:25,027 --> 01:26:27,499
That's the name that feels
more like me...
1400
01:26:35,737 --> 01:26:38,609
...the name that feels
most like home.
1401
01:26:58,557 --> 01:27:00,930
Grandma!
1402
01:29:11,713 --> 01:29:13,716
It's a story of grief...
1403
01:29:13,782 --> 01:29:16,119
Will you please bring my
baby back, please?
1404
01:29:18,453 --> 01:29:21,692
...and longing...
1405
01:29:21,756 --> 01:29:24,427
Carlina would always be
on my mind every day.
1406
01:29:24,491 --> 01:29:26,429
...betrayal...
1407
01:29:26,493 --> 01:29:28,598
Where did you get me from?
1408
01:29:28,662 --> 01:29:32,101
She destroyed my life
and my family.
1409
01:29:32,165 --> 01:29:34,202
...and discovery.
1410
01:29:34,267 --> 01:29:36,537
Now to an unbelievable
reunion...
1411
01:29:36,603 --> 01:29:38,473
She made this happen herself.
1412
01:29:38,538 --> 01:29:40,842
She's the hero in this.
1413
01:29:40,907 --> 01:29:43,545
I got my answers now to things
that happened in my life.
1414
01:29:43,610 --> 01:29:46,314
But Carlina White's
newfound family
1415
01:29:46,378 --> 01:29:50,052
faced some hard realities.
1416
01:29:50,116 --> 01:29:52,587
Everything happened too fast,
1417
01:29:52,651 --> 01:29:55,355
and we're all strangers
to each other.
1418
01:29:55,421 --> 01:29:57,691
It's hard to build a relationship
1419
01:29:57,756 --> 01:30:00,026
with someone that you
don't even know.
1420
01:30:00,091 --> 01:30:03,263
These stories aren't
always happy-ever-after.
1421
01:30:03,328 --> 01:30:05,532
They take time.
1422
01:30:05,596 --> 01:30:08,233
Now, for the first
time on television,
1423
01:30:08,298 --> 01:30:10,502
Carlina, her birth parents,
1424
01:30:10,567 --> 01:30:14,041
and the family that raised
her tell the true story
1425
01:30:14,104 --> 01:30:17,610
behind a reunion
that captivated the world.
1426
01:30:28,550 --> 01:30:30,721
In January 2011,
1427
01:30:30,786 --> 01:30:33,157
an assistant in a hair
salon near Atlanta
1428
01:30:33,221 --> 01:30:36,493
discovered she was
really Carlina White,
1429
01:30:36,557 --> 01:30:39,163
abducted as an infant
from Harlem Hospital
1430
01:30:39,227 --> 01:30:43,200
23 years earlier.
1431
01:30:43,263 --> 01:30:45,636
But though she had
found her true family,
1432
01:30:45,700 --> 01:30:47,235
in the months afterward,
1433
01:30:47,301 --> 01:30:50,607
she still had not
made her way home.
1434
01:30:50,671 --> 01:30:52,574
I still have that family
1435
01:30:52,639 --> 01:30:54,709
that don't really know me.
1436
01:30:54,774 --> 01:30:56,879
I was brought up differently,
1437
01:30:56,943 --> 01:31:00,449
and I'm an adult as well
so it's like,
1438
01:31:00,513 --> 01:31:02,717
it's gonna take
a little bit more time.
1439
01:31:02,781 --> 01:31:05,487
She have the family
that she was brought up with,
1440
01:31:05,551 --> 01:31:06,920
and she don't know me,
1441
01:31:06,986 --> 01:31:09,423
she don't know, you know,
her real mom.
1442
01:31:09,488 --> 01:31:11,525
This is not easy.
1443
01:31:11,589 --> 01:31:16,065
You don't just wipe out 23
years of history and--
1444
01:31:16,128 --> 01:31:19,767
and have everything revert
to where it was, uh,
1445
01:31:19,831 --> 01:31:22,001
on that day in 1987.
1446
01:31:30,974 --> 01:31:32,644
She was a sweet baby
1447
01:31:32,710 --> 01:31:35,214
in the time
that I had with her.
1448
01:31:35,278 --> 01:31:39,352
Joy White was 16
years old in 1987,
1449
01:31:39,416 --> 01:31:41,286
when she found out she
was pregnant
1450
01:31:41,351 --> 01:31:45,992
by her then-boyfriend,
22-year-old Carl Tyson.
1451
01:31:46,055 --> 01:31:47,490
We started talking about it.
1452
01:31:47,556 --> 01:31:49,493
She said she wanted
to keep the baby,
1453
01:31:49,558 --> 01:31:51,428
then that's when we
really had to sit down
1454
01:31:51,493 --> 01:31:53,597
and talk to our parents.
1455
01:31:53,662 --> 01:31:55,732
I had to explain
to my mother,
1456
01:31:55,797 --> 01:31:58,067
you know, what
was going on, and...
1457
01:31:58,132 --> 01:32:01,205
she was upset at first,
but she was very supportive
1458
01:32:01,269 --> 01:32:03,806
throughout the whole thing.
1459
01:32:03,871 --> 01:32:05,474
It was a long pregnancy,
1460
01:32:05,540 --> 01:32:08,111
running two weeks
past the due date.
1461
01:32:08,175 --> 01:32:11,581
By July 15th,
Joy had had enough.
1462
01:32:11,644 --> 01:32:14,751
I got tired of being pregnant,
so, uh,
1463
01:32:14,814 --> 01:32:16,317
what I did was I walked
1464
01:32:16,383 --> 01:32:19,087
all the way from 125th Street
and Broadway,
1465
01:32:19,151 --> 01:32:21,489
and I walked down
to 34th Street,
1466
01:32:21,555 --> 01:32:23,491
and then after that,
I went into labor,
1467
01:32:23,556 --> 01:32:25,593
and I had her.
1468
01:32:27,226 --> 01:32:30,532
She named the baby
Carlina Renae White.
1469
01:32:30,596 --> 01:32:32,433
The first name
was for Carl,
1470
01:32:32,498 --> 01:32:34,902
the second was
Joy's middle name.
1471
01:32:34,967 --> 01:32:36,469
That was a wonderful feeling.
1472
01:32:36,534 --> 01:32:38,604
Here was a little girl
I was going to raise,
1473
01:32:38,669 --> 01:32:41,175
that I was gonna be able
to take to the park.
1474
01:32:41,239 --> 01:32:43,610
Joy brought the baby home
1475
01:32:43,674 --> 01:32:45,545
to her mother's apartment
in Harlem.
1476
01:32:45,610 --> 01:32:48,114
We all used to just stand
and look at her.
1477
01:32:48,178 --> 01:32:50,950
You know how I'm talkin' about--
What a beautiful little girl.
1478
01:32:51,015 --> 01:32:53,719
Very pretty, always smiling,
1479
01:32:53,784 --> 01:32:55,921
but she had some lungs on her.
1480
01:32:55,986 --> 01:32:58,323
She used to cry, cry, cry--
1481
01:32:58,387 --> 01:33:00,625
cry a whole lot.
1482
01:33:00,689 --> 01:33:02,427
Joy was just learning
1483
01:33:02,492 --> 01:33:03,961
to take care of her baby
1484
01:33:04,026 --> 01:33:08,334
when Carlina spiked
a high fever, 104 degrees.
1485
01:33:08,396 --> 01:33:10,434
On the evening
of August 4th,
1486
01:33:10,499 --> 01:33:13,504
Joy and Carl rushed their
19-day-old baby
1487
01:33:13,568 --> 01:33:16,340
to the emergency room
at Harlem Hospital,
1488
01:33:16,404 --> 01:33:18,375
where she had been born.
1489
01:33:18,440 --> 01:33:20,176
The doctors found that Carlina
1490
01:33:20,241 --> 01:33:22,679
had swallowed some fluid
during the delivery,
1491
01:33:22,744 --> 01:33:24,881
and now she had
an infection.
1492
01:33:26,713 --> 01:33:28,451
I was upset because,
you know,
1493
01:33:28,516 --> 01:33:30,453
that was my baby
and she was sick.
1494
01:33:30,518 --> 01:33:32,955
And then when they told me
that they have to keep her,
1495
01:33:33,020 --> 01:33:34,322
you know, I was really,
1496
01:33:34,387 --> 01:33:36,023
you know, upset.
1497
01:33:36,089 --> 01:33:37,992
As Joy cried in the hallway
1498
01:33:38,058 --> 01:33:39,960
outside the pediatric ward,
1499
01:33:40,026 --> 01:33:44,668
a woman dressed in white
comforted her.
1500
01:33:44,730 --> 01:33:47,001
She came up to me--
she seen me crying,
1501
01:33:47,066 --> 01:33:48,735
and she came up to me and said,
1502
01:33:48,801 --> 01:33:50,470
"Don't cry--
here's a piece of tissue.
1503
01:33:50,536 --> 01:33:52,573
Don't worry--everything
is gonna be okay."
1504
01:33:52,638 --> 01:33:55,343
And, um, she kinda made
me feel better, you know,
1505
01:33:55,407 --> 01:33:57,376
at that time, because
I was, like, so upset
1506
01:33:57,441 --> 01:33:59,847
I didn't know what to do.
1507
01:33:59,911 --> 01:34:02,248
Joy decided to head
home to clean up
1508
01:34:02,313 --> 01:34:03,948
and get a little rest.
1509
01:34:04,014 --> 01:34:06,219
I'm 16 years old--
I'm a young girl.
1510
01:34:06,284 --> 01:34:08,220
I didn't know any better
at the time.
1511
01:34:08,285 --> 01:34:11,391
I think the hospital is safe.
1512
01:34:11,454 --> 01:34:15,129
She fell asleep,
but not for long.
1513
01:34:15,192 --> 01:34:17,129
Someone knocked on the door,
1514
01:34:17,194 --> 01:34:19,765
and there was two detectives
standing at the door.
1515
01:34:19,829 --> 01:34:21,431
I said, "Carlina died?"
1516
01:34:21,498 --> 01:34:22,800
He said, "No."
1517
01:34:22,866 --> 01:34:25,103
He says, "Somebody took her
from the hospital."
1518
01:34:27,836 --> 01:34:30,775
So I called Joy,
and I said, "Joy!"
1519
01:34:30,839 --> 01:34:32,676
and she came running
up here and I said,
1520
01:34:32,741 --> 01:34:35,145
"Somebody done took Carlina,"
and she couldn't believe me.
1521
01:34:35,210 --> 01:34:38,249
She was hollerin' out,
"Oh no, not my baby!"
1522
01:34:38,313 --> 01:34:40,116
I get this phone call.
1523
01:34:40,182 --> 01:34:42,486
Get on the phone, Joy
in the background crying,
1524
01:34:42,550 --> 01:34:44,420
"Carl, someone
stole our baby!"
1525
01:34:44,485 --> 01:34:46,021
I said, "What are you
talking about?"
1526
01:34:46,087 --> 01:34:48,959
I ran to the hospital.
1527
01:34:49,023 --> 01:34:51,494
They had detectives
all over the place.
1528
01:34:51,558 --> 01:34:52,793
They had helicopters.
1529
01:34:52,859 --> 01:34:54,729
They had sniffing dogs.
1530
01:34:54,794 --> 01:34:58,368
They had, uh, I mean, it
was everybody out there.
1531
01:34:58,431 --> 01:35:00,903
Nobody couldn't tell me
anything at the time.
1532
01:35:00,967 --> 01:35:03,004
We had a big conference in--
with the hospital
1533
01:35:03,069 --> 01:35:05,673
and everybody that's worked
on that ward that night
1534
01:35:05,738 --> 01:35:07,808
sit at the table,
and nobody knew anything.
1535
01:35:10,943 --> 01:35:12,578
As they talked about the night,
1536
01:35:12,644 --> 01:35:16,952
Joy remembered the woman
in white who had comforted her.
1537
01:35:17,014 --> 01:35:18,952
And I was like
"Oh my God!"
1538
01:35:19,016 --> 01:35:20,487
You know, "It was that lady!"
1539
01:35:22,386 --> 01:35:24,656
She saw me crying.
1540
01:35:24,723 --> 01:35:26,625
She knew my baby was
in that treatment room
1541
01:35:26,690 --> 01:35:29,262
and she said, "Stop crying."
1542
01:35:29,326 --> 01:35:31,431
It turned out many
people in the hospital
1543
01:35:31,495 --> 01:35:33,498
had seen the woman
hanging around,
1544
01:35:33,564 --> 01:35:36,201
especially in the
pediatric ward.
1545
01:35:36,266 --> 01:35:38,169
Parents thought
she worked there.
1546
01:35:38,235 --> 01:35:40,539
Staff members thought
she was a parent,
1547
01:35:40,603 --> 01:35:42,273
or a volunteer.
1548
01:35:42,338 --> 01:35:44,008
I really thought
she was a nurse.
1549
01:35:44,073 --> 01:35:46,444
So--I mean, she dressed
just like a nurse.
1550
01:35:46,508 --> 01:35:49,313
But she had no name tag.
1551
01:35:49,378 --> 01:35:51,014
Obviously the woman
1552
01:35:51,080 --> 01:35:53,284
is some type of a hanger-on
in the hospital.
1553
01:35:53,348 --> 01:35:54,951
That's typical behavior,
1554
01:35:55,016 --> 01:35:58,155
according to those who
study infant abductors.
1555
01:35:58,219 --> 01:35:59,789
They will go to hospitals
1556
01:35:59,854 --> 01:36:01,424
and birthing centers.
1557
01:36:01,489 --> 01:36:03,259
They will walk the halls.
1558
01:36:03,324 --> 01:36:05,026
They'll look at the nursery.
1559
01:36:05,093 --> 01:36:07,530
They will identify
particular children
1560
01:36:07,595 --> 01:36:09,699
that might be
of interest to them.
1561
01:36:11,198 --> 01:36:13,402
Police in Harlem launched
a frantic search,
1562
01:36:13,467 --> 01:36:16,472
combing the hospital
and surrounding buildings.
1563
01:36:16,536 --> 01:36:19,308
They released pictures
of baby Carlina,
1564
01:36:19,372 --> 01:36:22,044
hoping someone
would recognize her.
1565
01:36:22,108 --> 01:36:23,611
Time is the enemy
1566
01:36:23,677 --> 01:36:25,413
in the search
for a missing child,
1567
01:36:25,478 --> 01:36:28,517
and that's particularly true
with an infant or a newborn.
1568
01:36:28,580 --> 01:36:31,320
Because you want to respond,
1569
01:36:31,383 --> 01:36:33,386
generate visibility
1570
01:36:33,452 --> 01:36:35,054
before the abductor gets
1571
01:36:35,120 --> 01:36:37,657
to where the abductor's
trying to get.
1572
01:36:37,722 --> 01:36:40,527
When the woman in white
left Harlem Hospital,
1573
01:36:40,591 --> 01:36:42,996
there were security cameras
in place,
1574
01:36:43,060 --> 01:36:44,830
but they weren't working.
1575
01:36:44,895 --> 01:36:48,035
That left very little
information to go on.
1576
01:36:48,098 --> 01:36:50,904
No one can actually
document that woman
1577
01:36:50,968 --> 01:36:52,503
as the one leaving the hospital.
1578
01:36:52,569 --> 01:36:55,206
We have no one seeing a woman
fitting that description
1579
01:36:55,272 --> 01:36:58,143
leaving the hospital
with a child in tow.
1580
01:36:58,208 --> 01:36:59,978
Joy and Carl,
1581
01:37:00,043 --> 01:37:01,880
and other witnesses
from the hospital
1582
01:37:01,945 --> 01:37:05,618
helped police develop a sketch
of the woman in white.
1583
01:37:05,681 --> 01:37:07,885
Then they identified a mug shot
1584
01:37:07,950 --> 01:37:10,522
of a woman who looked
like the sketch.
1585
01:37:10,586 --> 01:37:13,290
Detectives questioned her
in the week after the abduction,
1586
01:37:13,355 --> 01:37:15,092
but she had an alibi
1587
01:37:15,157 --> 01:37:17,661
and there were
no other strong leads.
1588
01:37:17,726 --> 01:37:21,332
We've received over 50
calls from the public,
1589
01:37:21,396 --> 01:37:23,465
and, uh, we are thoroughly
investigating
1590
01:37:23,531 --> 01:37:25,368
all of the information
that we have received.
1591
01:37:25,432 --> 01:37:27,436
Sometimes they said,
"Oh, we have a lead,"
1592
01:37:27,501 --> 01:37:29,504
and then turn around
and it's no lead.
1593
01:37:29,570 --> 01:37:32,575
And you'd be like, "Oh, man,
did they forget about us?
1594
01:37:32,639 --> 01:37:34,342
"Come on, man,
this is our baby."
1595
01:37:34,407 --> 01:37:37,212
You know, sometimes I wonder
if I had a whole lot of money,
1596
01:37:37,277 --> 01:37:39,949
would they find my baby
in a couple of days?
1597
01:37:42,115 --> 01:37:45,821
My sense is that N.Y.P.D.
responded quickly,
1598
01:37:45,885 --> 01:37:49,491
took it seriously,
attempted to use the media.
1599
01:37:49,555 --> 01:37:53,896
I think this was a failure
on many levels,
1600
01:37:53,958 --> 01:37:58,635
not the least of which was
that America's hospitals
1601
01:37:58,697 --> 01:38:01,869
hadn't really thought about,
or paid attention
1602
01:38:01,933 --> 01:38:05,105
to these kinds of problems
in the 1980's.
1603
01:38:05,169 --> 01:38:06,839
The lack of attention allowed
1604
01:38:06,904 --> 01:38:09,509
several infant abductions
in the late '80's.
1605
01:38:09,574 --> 01:38:11,043
Though they were unrelated,
1606
01:38:11,108 --> 01:38:13,947
they all followed
a similar pattern.
1607
01:38:14,011 --> 01:38:16,081
Typically, the abductor
1608
01:38:16,146 --> 01:38:18,850
was someone
almost always a woman
1609
01:38:18,915 --> 01:38:20,585
who would walk
into the hospital,
1610
01:38:20,650 --> 01:38:23,388
find a smock
hanging up in a closet,
1611
01:38:23,452 --> 01:38:25,088
pick the baby up
1612
01:38:25,154 --> 01:38:27,157
out of a bassinet
in the mother's room
1613
01:38:27,223 --> 01:38:28,258
or in the nursery,
1614
01:38:28,324 --> 01:38:30,494
walk off the floor,
out of the hospital,
1615
01:38:30,559 --> 01:38:32,228
out of their lives.
1616
01:38:37,198 --> 01:38:38,902
In the days and weeks
1617
01:38:38,967 --> 01:38:40,869
that followed
Carlina's abduction,
1618
01:38:40,935 --> 01:38:44,742
Joy did everything she could
to keep attention on the case.
1619
01:38:44,806 --> 01:38:47,243
I did any interview
that I could possibly do,
1620
01:38:47,308 --> 01:38:49,512
you know,
to talk about her.
1621
01:38:49,576 --> 01:38:51,880
I want my baby back.
1622
01:38:51,946 --> 01:38:54,617
She didn't have to do that
to me.
1623
01:38:54,681 --> 01:38:56,216
I had her.
1624
01:38:56,283 --> 01:38:57,985
I was carrying her
for nine months.
1625
01:38:58,051 --> 01:38:59,754
She didn't have to take her
from me.
1626
01:38:59,820 --> 01:39:02,191
The loss was devastating.
1627
01:39:02,255 --> 01:39:05,461
It was hard for me,
because I couldn't sleep.
1628
01:39:05,524 --> 01:39:07,060
Every night I had
to take, like,
1629
01:39:07,126 --> 01:39:10,733
sleeping pills every night,
because I could not sleep.
1630
01:39:10,796 --> 01:39:13,534
Police run out of leads,
1631
01:39:13,598 --> 01:39:16,437
media spotlight dims,
1632
01:39:16,501 --> 01:39:19,072
but these parents
don't forget.
1633
01:39:24,643 --> 01:39:27,247
This is a picture
of me with, um,
1634
01:39:27,311 --> 01:39:29,782
Carlina's stroller.
1635
01:39:29,847 --> 01:39:31,317
Empty stroller.
1636
01:39:31,382 --> 01:39:33,352
I was always hoping
that, you know,
1637
01:39:33,417 --> 01:39:35,153
one day she
could come back,
1638
01:39:35,218 --> 01:39:37,155
and could sit back
in that stroller again.
1639
01:39:44,160 --> 01:39:45,997
In August 1987,
1640
01:39:46,061 --> 01:39:48,132
a young woman named
Ann Pettway
1641
01:39:48,197 --> 01:39:50,802
got off the train
in Bridgeport, Connecticut,
1642
01:39:50,867 --> 01:39:53,471
with a baby girl.
1643
01:39:53,535 --> 01:39:57,108
She was just 60 miles
northeast of New York City,
1644
01:39:57,172 --> 01:39:59,242
where Carlina White
had been abducted
1645
01:39:59,307 --> 01:40:01,912
from Harlem Hospital.
1646
01:40:01,977 --> 01:40:03,713
Bridgeport was home for Ann,
1647
01:40:03,777 --> 01:40:05,915
but she hadn't been
around in a few months.
1648
01:40:05,980 --> 01:40:09,219
When she left, her family
believed she was pregnant,
1649
01:40:09,282 --> 01:40:12,055
and now she was ready
to show off the baby.
1650
01:40:12,119 --> 01:40:14,189
It wasn't a issue,
1651
01:40:14,254 --> 01:40:17,159
because she was pregnant,
so it wasn't to say,
1652
01:40:17,224 --> 01:40:20,430
"Oh, where did you get a baby?"
1653
01:40:20,494 --> 01:40:21,929
You know, she was pregnant,
1654
01:40:21,995 --> 01:40:23,932
so you come home
with your child.
1655
01:40:25,264 --> 01:40:27,768
Infant abductions
are relatively rare.
1656
01:40:27,833 --> 01:40:32,776
There were fewer than 300
from 1983 to 2010.
1657
01:40:32,838 --> 01:40:34,908
But experts have been able
to develop
1658
01:40:34,973 --> 01:40:37,143
a profile of the perpetrators,
1659
01:40:37,209 --> 01:40:40,815
and it seems Ann Pettway
fit that profile to a tee.
1660
01:40:40,878 --> 01:40:43,115
Overwhelmingly, the abductor
1661
01:40:43,181 --> 01:40:45,183
is a woman--maybe a woman
1662
01:40:45,249 --> 01:40:48,990
who has miscarried,
who has lost a baby.
1663
01:40:49,053 --> 01:40:52,426
These cases are
more often driven
1664
01:40:52,489 --> 01:40:55,093
by a psychological need
1665
01:40:55,159 --> 01:40:57,028
to keep a particular man
in a life,
1666
01:40:57,093 --> 01:40:58,529
keep a relationship alive,
1667
01:40:58,595 --> 01:41:01,801
than it is for the baby,
per se.
1668
01:41:01,865 --> 01:41:05,438
So it is-- it's a very
manipulative tool
1669
01:41:05,501 --> 01:41:07,571
uh, that these women use.
1670
01:41:07,636 --> 01:41:09,507
The man Ann was trying
1671
01:41:09,572 --> 01:41:11,374
to keep in her life at the time
1672
01:41:11,440 --> 01:41:13,778
was Derek Nance,
a local drug dealer.
1673
01:41:13,842 --> 01:41:15,712
She would later tell the FBI
1674
01:41:15,777 --> 01:41:17,680
that she wanted to have
his baby,
1675
01:41:17,746 --> 01:41:20,318
but had suffered
several miscarriages.
1676
01:41:20,382 --> 01:41:22,419
She named the new baby Nejdra,
1677
01:41:22,484 --> 01:41:26,758
but the family always
called her Netty.
1678
01:41:26,821 --> 01:41:29,425
The Pettway family was
a large clan,
1679
01:41:29,490 --> 01:41:32,061
spread across
Bridgeport's East Side.
1680
01:41:32,125 --> 01:41:34,028
There are so many of us.
1681
01:41:34,094 --> 01:41:36,933
You can walk down the street
and see 20 family members.
1682
01:41:36,997 --> 01:41:39,067
I remember just growin' up
1683
01:41:39,132 --> 01:41:40,567
with a lot of cousins,
1684
01:41:40,633 --> 01:41:43,638
havin' a lot of family
events together--
1685
01:41:43,703 --> 01:41:47,911
cookouts, parties--and
it was just family-orientated.
1686
01:41:47,974 --> 01:41:50,678
She didn't really need
friends because we were there.
1687
01:41:50,743 --> 01:41:53,647
We were her friends
and her family.
1688
01:41:53,712 --> 01:41:56,116
What's better to have
than family?
1689
01:41:56,180 --> 01:41:57,784
In the Pettway family,
1690
01:41:57,849 --> 01:42:00,186
Netty became known
as an entertainer.
1691
01:42:00,251 --> 01:42:01,787
Every September,
1692
01:42:01,853 --> 01:42:04,791
they'll have a family reunion
at the park,
1693
01:42:04,855 --> 01:42:07,894
and they'll have dance contests,
1694
01:42:07,958 --> 01:42:09,828
and she'll get involved in it.
1695
01:42:09,893 --> 01:42:12,398
I was just into the
entertainment--
1696
01:42:12,462 --> 01:42:14,834
just growin' up,
believing one day
1697
01:42:14,898 --> 01:42:16,768
that I would have been a star.
1698
01:42:16,833 --> 01:42:19,605
But there was another
side to her, as well.
1699
01:42:19,669 --> 01:42:23,810
She always liked
to be to herself sometimes.
1700
01:42:23,873 --> 01:42:28,881
To this day she's still
quiet and to herself.
1701
01:42:28,945 --> 01:42:31,816
That quiet girl found
her own outlet.
1702
01:42:31,880 --> 01:42:36,521
At the age of ten,
she began writing poems.
1703
01:42:36,585 --> 01:42:39,690
I just like to write--
it expresses me.
1704
01:42:39,754 --> 01:42:41,891
When Netty wasn't
with her cousins,
1705
01:42:41,956 --> 01:42:44,026
she was home
with Ann Pettway.
1706
01:42:44,091 --> 01:42:46,195
For years it was
just the two of them,
1707
01:42:46,260 --> 01:42:50,701
until Ann had a baby boy
when Netty was 11.
1708
01:42:50,765 --> 01:42:55,074
Ann is a very outspoken,
Ioving person.
1709
01:42:55,137 --> 01:42:56,506
She made sure Nejdra
1710
01:42:56,571 --> 01:42:59,610
had everything she wanted
and everything she needed.
1711
01:42:59,674 --> 01:43:01,309
Ann was fairly strict
1712
01:43:01,375 --> 01:43:02,443
with her daughter though.
1713
01:43:02,509 --> 01:43:05,114
She disciplined her when
she needed disciplining.
1714
01:43:05,179 --> 01:43:07,683
It was, "You have to go home,
go to school
1715
01:43:07,747 --> 01:43:09,518
go to Brittany's house..."
1716
01:43:09,583 --> 01:43:12,120
But she still let us
have our fun as children,
1717
01:43:12,185 --> 01:43:15,491
but she did have
that strict side to her.
1718
01:43:15,555 --> 01:43:20,464
The young Netty didn't
dare talk back.
1719
01:43:20,526 --> 01:43:22,663
You didn't ask questions
why you should do it.
1720
01:43:22,728 --> 01:43:25,466
It was just, "You do it
because they told you."
1721
01:43:25,530 --> 01:43:26,766
And that's how I grew up.
1722
01:43:26,832 --> 01:43:29,203
I mean, from my uncles,
my aunts--everybody.
1723
01:43:29,267 --> 01:43:31,071
According to police reports,
1724
01:43:31,136 --> 01:43:33,607
Ann ran into some trouble
over the years.
1725
01:43:33,672 --> 01:43:37,679
She was arrested
in 1991,'93, and '97
1726
01:43:37,742 --> 01:43:40,914
on charges of drug
possession and larceny.
1727
01:43:40,978 --> 01:43:43,550
Netty had no idea at the time.
1728
01:43:43,614 --> 01:43:45,317
I really wasn't exposed
1729
01:43:45,383 --> 01:43:48,822
to everything that she
was going through...
1730
01:43:48,886 --> 01:43:51,523
until I got older.
1731
01:43:51,588 --> 01:43:55,095
As a child growin' up,
you're not into adult business,
1732
01:43:55,158 --> 01:43:57,729
so those things
we wouldn't know.
1733
01:44:00,663 --> 01:44:02,365
Netty did shuttle
back and forth
1734
01:44:02,431 --> 01:44:04,168
to Ann's mother's home,
1735
01:44:04,233 --> 01:44:06,170
although she was given
a different reason
1736
01:44:06,235 --> 01:44:07,737
for the moves.
1737
01:44:07,802 --> 01:44:10,475
I stayed with my grandmother
when I attended school,
1738
01:44:10,539 --> 01:44:12,943
'cause I was going based
on her address.
1739
01:44:13,007 --> 01:44:14,745
I went to school
in a better district,
1740
01:44:14,809 --> 01:44:16,512
so I stayed with her.
1741
01:44:16,577 --> 01:44:20,351
Other grandkids who needed
somewhere to stay
1742
01:44:20,415 --> 01:44:23,454
or have some type
of issues going on,
1743
01:44:23,517 --> 01:44:26,389
they'll come and stay
with my mom,
1744
01:44:26,453 --> 01:44:29,425
and Netty was one of 'em
that stayed.
1745
01:44:29,489 --> 01:44:33,296
And most of the time, the kids
choose to stay with my mom.
1746
01:44:33,360 --> 01:44:35,497
Through her childhood,
1747
01:44:35,562 --> 01:44:37,832
no one in the immediate family
1748
01:44:37,897 --> 01:44:41,036
seems to have questioned
Nejdra's parentage.
1749
01:44:41,100 --> 01:44:43,437
There was no suspicion that
Nejdra was not Ann's daughter.
1750
01:44:43,502 --> 01:44:45,739
I knew she looked
a little bit different,
1751
01:44:45,804 --> 01:44:47,841
but we all look a little bit
different
1752
01:44:47,906 --> 01:44:49,375
in the family.
1753
01:44:49,441 --> 01:44:51,979
And Netty had no reason
to question it either.
1754
01:44:52,043 --> 01:44:54,381
If anything, I probably
thought my dad wasn't my dad.
1755
01:44:54,446 --> 01:44:56,516
I just figured, okay,
maybe I look like my dad,
1756
01:44:56,581 --> 01:44:58,050
but I don't know who he is.
1757
01:44:58,115 --> 01:45:01,154
But, I thought
that she was my mom,
1758
01:45:01,218 --> 01:45:04,257
for me growing up.
1759
01:45:04,321 --> 01:45:05,890
In fact, of course,
1760
01:45:05,957 --> 01:45:09,530
her real mother was 60 miles
away in New York City,
1761
01:45:09,593 --> 01:45:15,270
still dreaming
of her missing baby, Carlina.
1762
01:45:15,331 --> 01:45:16,834
No other leads.
1763
01:45:16,900 --> 01:45:18,702
They just had crazy
people call, saying that,
1764
01:45:18,768 --> 01:45:20,738
you know, they
may have seen Carlina,
1765
01:45:20,803 --> 01:45:23,040
this or that, whatever,
but it was nothing...
1766
01:45:23,105 --> 01:45:25,810
Joy and Carl split up
1767
01:45:25,874 --> 01:45:27,410
after Carlina
was kidnapped,
1768
01:45:27,476 --> 01:45:30,949
but together, they sued
Harlem Hospital for negligence
1769
01:45:31,013 --> 01:45:35,019
in allowing their baby
to be taken.
1770
01:45:35,082 --> 01:45:36,553
Anybody could come
to a hospital,
1771
01:45:36,618 --> 01:45:38,253
you're supposed to have
security around them.
1772
01:45:38,319 --> 01:45:39,822
And you're supposed
to watch them.
1773
01:45:39,887 --> 01:45:42,259
That--that's your job.
1774
01:45:42,323 --> 01:45:45,796
I think if they had
more security at the time,
1775
01:45:45,859 --> 01:45:48,631
this probably would
have never happened.
1776
01:45:48,696 --> 01:45:51,100
Eventually, in 1992,
1777
01:45:51,164 --> 01:45:55,038
they won a settlement
of 750,000.
1778
01:45:55,101 --> 01:45:58,741
They put some of it aside
for Carlina.
1779
01:45:58,805 --> 01:46:00,842
We had that hope, our
daughter was coming back.
1780
01:46:00,906 --> 01:46:03,478
So that's why me and Joy decided
to start this trust fund.
1781
01:46:03,542 --> 01:46:06,147
So, if she was to be found
by 21 years old,
1782
01:46:06,212 --> 01:46:07,614
she would have it.
1783
01:46:07,679 --> 01:46:09,616
Meanwhile, all Carlina's parents
1784
01:46:09,681 --> 01:46:11,951
could do was wait.
1785
01:46:12,017 --> 01:46:14,388
This is somethin'
that you can't explain
1786
01:46:14,452 --> 01:46:16,857
when you
have a missing child,
1787
01:46:16,921 --> 01:46:18,791
but it always stayed with me.
1788
01:46:18,856 --> 01:46:20,326
She was always on my mind.
1789
01:46:20,391 --> 01:46:22,595
I always wondered
where she was at.
1790
01:46:22,660 --> 01:46:24,964
I would get on trains,
and I would look at girls,
1791
01:46:25,029 --> 01:46:27,333
and I would just think
that maybe that's her.
1792
01:46:35,638 --> 01:46:37,341
As decades passed,
1793
01:46:37,406 --> 01:46:39,343
the kidnapping
of Carlina White,
1794
01:46:39,408 --> 01:46:42,046
stolen as an infant
from Harlem Hospital,
1795
01:46:42,111 --> 01:46:44,548
became a cold case.
1796
01:46:44,613 --> 01:46:47,418
After all, how do you find
a missing baby
1797
01:46:47,483 --> 01:46:51,223
after so many years?
1798
01:46:51,286 --> 01:46:53,991
Later on in the years,
things kind of,
1799
01:46:54,056 --> 01:46:55,658
you know, died down.
1800
01:46:55,723 --> 01:46:57,726
They just--think
they lost hope.
1801
01:46:57,792 --> 01:47:00,697
I didn't, but I--
I think they lost hope.
1802
01:47:00,762 --> 01:47:02,999
As often happens with
these cases,
1803
01:47:03,064 --> 01:47:04,867
it became the purview
1804
01:47:04,932 --> 01:47:08,905
of the National Center for
Missing and Exploited Children.
1805
01:47:08,968 --> 01:47:11,774
The experts there know
that infant abductors
1806
01:47:11,838 --> 01:47:14,777
usually take good care
of their captives.
1807
01:47:14,841 --> 01:47:17,245
We were convinced from day one
1808
01:47:17,310 --> 01:47:20,516
that Carlina White was
out there somewhere,
1809
01:47:20,580 --> 01:47:23,619
no doubt with a different name,
1810
01:47:23,682 --> 01:47:27,489
no doubt with no recollection
or any inkling
1811
01:47:27,552 --> 01:47:30,391
that she, in fact,
was a missing child.
1812
01:47:32,557 --> 01:47:34,761
The way the center
1813
01:47:34,826 --> 01:47:36,228
keeps these cases
in the public eye
1814
01:47:36,294 --> 01:47:38,231
is with age progressions,
1815
01:47:38,296 --> 01:47:40,466
using the last-known
picture of the child,
1816
01:47:40,531 --> 01:47:42,768
and information
about her family,
1817
01:47:42,833 --> 01:47:46,674
to guess what she might
look like as she grows up.
1818
01:47:46,737 --> 01:47:49,108
It doesn't do much good
to circulate the photograph
1819
01:47:49,172 --> 01:47:52,511
of a 19-day-old child
1820
01:47:52,575 --> 01:47:54,378
if she's now 5 years old,
1821
01:47:54,444 --> 01:47:57,149
or 10 years old,
or 23 years old.
1822
01:47:57,213 --> 01:48:01,454
That was based on her sister,
and I used that photograph
1823
01:48:01,517 --> 01:48:04,256
to create Carlina's
age progression,
1824
01:48:04,320 --> 01:48:06,691
based on Mom's statement
that her half-sister
1825
01:48:06,755 --> 01:48:09,660
looked just like Carlina
when they were born.
1826
01:48:09,724 --> 01:48:12,797
So... can't
argue with Mom on that.
1827
01:48:12,861 --> 01:48:15,465
Carlina's mother Joy made
her own effort
1828
01:48:15,529 --> 01:48:18,937
to keep the story
alive and public.
1829
01:48:19,000 --> 01:48:21,137
What I remember the
most about Joy White
1830
01:48:21,202 --> 01:48:25,008
was the fact that
she never gave up.
1831
01:48:25,072 --> 01:48:28,044
And periodically,
Joy would be in the media,
1832
01:48:28,108 --> 01:48:30,412
in New York, or elsewhere.
1833
01:48:30,477 --> 01:48:33,081
Sometimes I--I go to sleep,
I think about her.
1834
01:48:33,147 --> 01:48:38,289
Sometimes I wake up
thinkin' about her.
1835
01:48:38,351 --> 01:48:40,989
I did a lot of interviews
over the years
1836
01:48:41,053 --> 01:48:43,057
because I wanted to find
my daughter.
1837
01:48:43,122 --> 01:48:46,126
I wanted her back, you know,
with me, and um,
1838
01:48:46,192 --> 01:48:48,930
I really believed that she
was out there somewhere,
1839
01:48:48,994 --> 01:48:50,864
and I wanted to get
that message out
1840
01:48:50,929 --> 01:48:53,733
that her mother wanted her
to come back home.
1841
01:48:53,798 --> 01:48:55,601
Joy never stopped believing
1842
01:48:55,667 --> 01:48:57,537
that Carlina was alive.
1843
01:48:57,602 --> 01:48:59,439
I always knew that Carlina
would probably
1844
01:48:59,504 --> 01:49:02,308
look for her birth certificate
or something, or--
1845
01:49:02,373 --> 01:49:05,679
or try to find out
who her real mom was.
1846
01:49:05,742 --> 01:49:10,016
And in 2005,
that's exactly what happened.
1847
01:49:10,079 --> 01:49:11,516
The girl called Nejdra,
1848
01:49:11,581 --> 01:49:13,585
still living in
Bridgeport Connecticut,
1849
01:49:13,650 --> 01:49:15,687
found out she was pregnant.
1850
01:49:15,752 --> 01:49:18,189
She had a serious
boyfriend at the time
1851
01:49:18,254 --> 01:49:20,891
and was excited
about having a baby.
1852
01:49:20,956 --> 01:49:22,592
The only problem was...
1853
01:49:22,658 --> 01:49:25,095
she didn't have
health insurance.
1854
01:49:25,160 --> 01:49:26,563
She asked for help
1855
01:49:26,629 --> 01:49:31,371
from the woman she always
called "Mom"... Ann Pettway.
1856
01:49:31,433 --> 01:49:33,303
I questioned
her about, um,
1857
01:49:33,368 --> 01:49:35,805
my social security card,
my birth certificate.
1858
01:49:35,870 --> 01:49:37,673
She just said she'd
handle it, you know,
1859
01:49:37,739 --> 01:49:39,441
get everything
right for me.
1860
01:49:39,507 --> 01:49:41,077
I don't have to worry about it.
1861
01:49:41,142 --> 01:49:44,281
But, I started
gettin' impatient.
1862
01:49:44,345 --> 01:49:47,517
Nejdra snooped
among Ann's papers
1863
01:49:47,581 --> 01:49:51,354
until she found one that looked
like a birth certificate.
1864
01:49:51,418 --> 01:49:54,290
She brought it in
to apply for insurance.
1865
01:49:57,757 --> 01:49:59,827
They told me
to take the paper
1866
01:49:59,892 --> 01:50:02,062
and leave out they office
before I get arrested.
1867
01:50:02,127 --> 01:50:05,767
And, I just looked
at the lady like,
1868
01:50:05,831 --> 01:50:08,002
"I'm just tryin' to get,
you know, prenatal care.
1869
01:50:08,067 --> 01:50:10,103
"I need to go to the doctor
'cause I'm pregnant."
1870
01:50:10,169 --> 01:50:12,373
And she was like,
"Well, this is fraud."
1871
01:50:12,438 --> 01:50:15,276
The birth certificate was a fake.
1872
01:50:15,339 --> 01:50:18,746
The clerk called the woman
who had made it, Ann Pettway.
1873
01:50:18,809 --> 01:50:22,115
Now Ann had to give
Nejdra an explanation.
1874
01:50:22,180 --> 01:50:24,551
When she got back home
from work that night,
1875
01:50:24,615 --> 01:50:25,984
she came into my room.
1876
01:50:26,050 --> 01:50:28,053
I was hangin' up
my clothes in my closet
1877
01:50:28,118 --> 01:50:33,628
and she sat on my bed
and said, um, "I'm sorry."
1878
01:50:33,690 --> 01:50:35,225
And tears started fallin'
outta her eyes,
1879
01:50:35,292 --> 01:50:37,562
and I was like,
"What are you sorry about?"
1880
01:50:37,627 --> 01:50:39,529
and she was like,
"I'm just--I'm sorry.
1881
01:50:39,596 --> 01:50:43,971
"Um, I wish I coulda
told you," you know.
1882
01:50:44,033 --> 01:50:46,170
She was just like,
"Your mom just left you there.
1883
01:50:46,235 --> 01:50:48,339
She just left you there
and she never came back."
1884
01:50:48,404 --> 01:50:50,140
I'm like, "What?"
1885
01:50:50,205 --> 01:50:54,346
She just basically told me
that she wasn't my mom--
1886
01:50:54,409 --> 01:50:57,515
that someone left me
and she took me in
1887
01:50:57,579 --> 01:50:59,449
and basically took care of me.
1888
01:50:59,514 --> 01:51:01,951
The news that Nejdra
was not Ann's child
1889
01:51:02,016 --> 01:51:03,919
surprised the whole family,
1890
01:51:03,985 --> 01:51:07,291
but the close-knit Pettway
clan closed ranks.
1891
01:51:07,354 --> 01:51:09,458
No one cared about it,
truthfully.
1892
01:51:09,523 --> 01:51:12,060
To me, she-she-she was
always my family,
1893
01:51:12,125 --> 01:51:14,262
and she will always be
my family.
1894
01:51:14,327 --> 01:51:15,596
Meanwhile,
1895
01:51:15,662 --> 01:51:18,166
the Connecticut Department
of Child and Families,
1896
01:51:18,231 --> 01:51:21,870
or D.C.F., opened a file
on Nejdra's case,
1897
01:51:21,934 --> 01:51:24,606
But there wasn't a lot
of information to go on,
1898
01:51:24,670 --> 01:51:26,607
and Ann wasn't much help.
1899
01:51:26,672 --> 01:51:28,508
It's like, she don't
remember anything.
1900
01:51:28,573 --> 01:51:31,412
She don't talk about it.
1901
01:51:31,476 --> 01:51:35,350
I asked her several times.
1902
01:51:35,413 --> 01:51:38,085
Ann claimed Nejdra had
been born in New Haven,
1903
01:51:38,149 --> 01:51:40,453
but there was
no record of the birth.
1904
01:51:40,518 --> 01:51:42,555
D.C.F. took DNA samples
1905
01:51:42,620 --> 01:51:45,092
and confirmed that
Ann wasn't the mother,
1906
01:51:45,156 --> 01:51:47,627
but they said they couldn't
help Nejdra find out who was.
1907
01:51:47,691 --> 01:51:50,195
I was like, "Can you
take my blood at least
1908
01:51:50,260 --> 01:51:52,330
to match it up
with someone that's out there?"
1909
01:51:52,395 --> 01:51:54,098
They was like,
"That's TV stuff."
1910
01:51:54,164 --> 01:51:56,568
D.C.F. found out--
they didn't do nothin'.
1911
01:51:56,633 --> 01:51:58,970
What would you do if they say
that's not your mother
1912
01:51:59,035 --> 01:52:00,805
but they not finding
your mother?
1913
01:52:00,870 --> 01:52:02,840
It was like I'm startin'
from scratch.
1914
01:52:02,905 --> 01:52:05,075
I don't know anything--I don't--
I don't have any names,
1915
01:52:05,141 --> 01:52:07,645
no area where they from,
no background, no nothin'.
1916
01:52:07,709 --> 01:52:10,214
Nejdra, who had always
kept to herself
1917
01:52:10,279 --> 01:52:13,083
--writing poems rather
than sharing her feelings--
1918
01:52:13,148 --> 01:52:15,853
kept this news
to herself as well.
1919
01:52:15,917 --> 01:52:19,123
She dealt with it
on her own, basically.
1920
01:52:19,187 --> 01:52:21,624
You would've never known
that there was speculation
1921
01:52:21,689 --> 01:52:23,859
that she was her mother,
that she wasn't her mother--
1922
01:52:23,924 --> 01:52:25,560
you never would've
known any of that.
1923
01:52:25,626 --> 01:52:27,462
I'm still healthy,
I'm still alive,
1924
01:52:27,527 --> 01:52:30,299
and I just gotta move forward,
And that's how I looked at it.
1925
01:52:30,364 --> 01:52:34,672
Besides, she had her own
baby to look after now.
1926
01:52:34,734 --> 01:52:38,908
On May 6, 2005, Nejdra
gave birth to a daughter.
1927
01:52:38,971 --> 01:52:41,242
She named her Samani.
1928
01:52:41,307 --> 01:52:43,310
That was the best thing
that happened to her.
1929
01:52:43,376 --> 01:52:45,012
She loves her.
1930
01:52:45,078 --> 01:52:49,084
To have a daughter
that's just like you
1931
01:52:49,147 --> 01:52:52,453
is the one thing she could've
ever asked for.
1932
01:52:52,517 --> 01:52:54,822
And eventually
that daughter
1933
01:52:54,887 --> 01:52:57,758
and the revelations
around her birth
1934
01:52:57,822 --> 01:53:01,128
would lead Nejdra to uncover
the secrets of her own birth.
1935
01:53:03,994 --> 01:53:07,668
I thank God that
she had a daughter
1936
01:53:07,731 --> 01:53:08,933
so that she could find me.
1937
01:53:12,001 --> 01:53:13,472
In 2005,
1938
01:53:13,537 --> 01:53:16,441
the girl called Nejdra
was 17 years old,
1939
01:53:16,505 --> 01:53:18,243
living in Bridgeport,
Connecticut,
1940
01:53:18,307 --> 01:53:20,412
with her new daughter, Samani.
1941
01:53:20,476 --> 01:53:21,978
She'd found out
1942
01:53:22,044 --> 01:53:25,016
that the woman she had always
called Mom, Ann Pettway,
1943
01:53:25,080 --> 01:53:28,119
in fact was not her mother.
1944
01:53:28,183 --> 01:53:30,587
Still, as she graduated
from high school
1945
01:53:30,652 --> 01:53:32,489
and moved out on her own,
1946
01:53:32,554 --> 01:53:34,791
she kept up a relationship
with Ann
1947
01:53:34,856 --> 01:53:38,463
and with the entire
Pettway family.
1948
01:53:38,526 --> 01:53:41,131
In 2009, she moved
near Atlanta,
1949
01:53:41,195 --> 01:53:44,834
where more members
of the Pettway family lived.
1950
01:53:44,898 --> 01:53:48,872
I just wanted a new atmosphere
for me and my daughter.
1951
01:53:48,936 --> 01:53:52,777
Nejdra found a job as an
assistant in a hair salon,
1952
01:53:52,839 --> 01:53:56,880
and she worked to build a life
for herself and her daughter.
1953
01:53:56,943 --> 01:54:02,286
She's a very down-to-earth...
strict mom.
1954
01:54:02,347 --> 01:54:04,853
- P-e-n-r...So--
1955
01:54:04,917 --> 01:54:06,386
- P-e...
- Yeah.
1956
01:54:06,452 --> 01:54:08,189
It's cut off
so I read the rest.
1957
01:54:08,254 --> 01:54:10,992
She makes sure Samani
does her homework.
1958
01:54:11,055 --> 01:54:14,295
She makes sure she's on point
with everything she needs to do.
1959
01:54:14,358 --> 01:54:16,697
She's actually
a great mother.
1960
01:54:16,762 --> 01:54:18,664
But being a mother
1961
01:54:18,729 --> 01:54:20,899
made Nejdra wonder
about her own mother.
1962
01:54:20,966 --> 01:54:23,470
Wait, don't tell me... um--
1963
01:54:23,534 --> 01:54:25,771
Some days I wake up
and look at my daughter
1964
01:54:25,836 --> 01:54:28,073
and wonder,
"Who do I look like?"
1965
01:54:28,138 --> 01:54:29,607
Every so often,
1966
01:54:29,673 --> 01:54:32,612
she would trawl the Internet
looking for clues.
1967
01:54:35,679 --> 01:54:38,451
Mainly around July,
1968
01:54:38,515 --> 01:54:42,154
the summertime,
when my birthday come around--
1969
01:54:42,218 --> 01:54:44,522
'cause I already knew
that my birthday
1970
01:54:44,586 --> 01:54:46,557
wasn't the date
that I was born on.
1971
01:54:46,622 --> 01:54:48,459
Still intensely private,
1972
01:54:48,524 --> 01:54:51,328
she told no one
what she was doing.
1973
01:54:51,392 --> 01:54:53,663
That's something
I guess that she harbored,
1974
01:54:53,729 --> 01:54:55,798
which I know ate her up inside.
1975
01:54:55,864 --> 01:54:57,800
That was a journey that Nejdra
1976
01:54:57,865 --> 01:55:02,173
had to search and endure
on her own.
1977
01:55:02,236 --> 01:55:05,008
But in the fall of 2010,
1978
01:55:05,072 --> 01:55:08,946
Nejdra asked her aunt
Cassandra for help.
1979
01:55:09,010 --> 01:55:10,445
She was like,
"You know,
1980
01:55:10,511 --> 01:55:12,915
"I still want to find my mom
1981
01:55:12,979 --> 01:55:16,518
"and see who my family is."
1982
01:55:16,583 --> 01:55:19,621
And I said, "If you want me
to help you, I'll help you."
1983
01:55:19,685 --> 01:55:23,091
I think that was a chapter
in her life
1984
01:55:23,156 --> 01:55:25,927
that she needed to complete
1985
01:55:25,991 --> 01:55:28,763
in order to move forward
with her life.
1986
01:55:28,828 --> 01:55:30,497
Neither of them
thought about
1987
01:55:30,562 --> 01:55:32,565
what finding out the truth
would mean for Ann Pettway...
1988
01:55:33,965 --> 01:55:37,237
...the woman who
raised Nejdra.
1989
01:55:37,302 --> 01:55:39,539
The week before Christmas,
1990
01:55:39,604 --> 01:55:42,810
they began to search
for answers.
1991
01:55:42,874 --> 01:55:44,743
Nejdra had always looked
for stories
1992
01:55:44,808 --> 01:55:46,945
of missing children
from Connecticut,
1993
01:55:47,010 --> 01:55:50,049
since Ann had told her
she was born in New Haven.
1994
01:55:50,113 --> 01:55:54,120
This time, she decided
to cast a wider net.
1995
01:55:54,184 --> 01:55:57,156
I was just reading
through articles
1996
01:55:57,220 --> 01:55:58,922
about African-Americans,
Hispanics--
1997
01:55:58,988 --> 01:56:02,462
anything that was missing
around the New England area,
1998
01:56:02,525 --> 01:56:06,900
and I came across
that baby picture.
1999
01:56:06,962 --> 01:56:10,102
I thought it looked like
it could be me.
2000
01:56:10,165 --> 01:56:12,436
And just how the dates
were adding up--
2001
01:56:12,501 --> 01:56:14,872
it was a little
close to my birthday,
2002
01:56:14,936 --> 01:56:17,641
so I got kinda stuck
on the whole concept of it--
2003
01:56:17,706 --> 01:56:21,679
everything about the whole
article and the picture.
2004
01:56:21,742 --> 01:56:24,547
The picture she found
was of Carlina White,
2005
01:56:24,612 --> 01:56:27,049
stolen as a baby
from Harlem Hospital
2006
01:56:27,114 --> 01:56:31,388
in August 1987.
2007
01:56:31,451 --> 01:56:33,254
And I'm like,
"Auntie,
2008
01:56:33,320 --> 01:56:34,922
Don't you think
this look like me?"
2009
01:56:34,987 --> 01:56:36,591
It look like her,
2010
01:56:36,656 --> 01:56:40,396
but the only thing that was
in question for me was the hair.
2011
01:56:40,459 --> 01:56:43,064
It seemed like too much hair.
2012
01:56:45,131 --> 01:56:47,401
The picture was on
the web site
2013
01:56:47,466 --> 01:56:50,772
of the National Center for
Missing and Exploited children,
2014
01:56:50,836 --> 01:56:54,142
which had followed
Carlina's case for years.
2015
01:56:54,205 --> 01:56:56,677
Nejdra called
the center's hotline
2016
01:56:56,741 --> 01:56:59,146
and spoke to Jordan Wood.
2017
01:56:59,210 --> 01:57:01,013
She had strong suspicions.
2018
01:57:01,078 --> 01:57:03,182
I'm explaining to her
my whole story.
2019
01:57:03,247 --> 01:57:05,117
There were problems
with her birth certificate
2020
01:57:05,182 --> 01:57:07,286
and her other documents,
so that was her main concern
2021
01:57:07,351 --> 01:57:08,887
and her main reason for feeling
2022
01:57:08,953 --> 01:57:11,791
that she was possibly abducted
as an infant.
2023
01:57:11,855 --> 01:57:13,892
She just said,
"I feel that my parents
2024
01:57:13,957 --> 01:57:15,560
"are still out there
Iooking for me,
2025
01:57:15,626 --> 01:57:18,063
"not knowing that I'm going
by another name
2026
01:57:18,128 --> 01:57:20,131
and another social
security number."
2027
01:57:20,196 --> 01:57:22,133
Nejdra did not tell Jordan
2028
01:57:22,198 --> 01:57:24,869
that she had seen the picture
of Carlina White.
2029
01:57:24,934 --> 01:57:27,673
I don't know exactly if that
was me in that picture.
2030
01:57:27,736 --> 01:57:29,439
I just called to see
2031
01:57:29,504 --> 01:57:32,009
if someone could match it up
and just let me know.
2032
01:57:32,074 --> 01:57:33,810
I could definitely hear
2033
01:57:33,875 --> 01:57:35,845
a lot of frustration
in her voice.
2034
01:57:35,910 --> 01:57:38,281
She had gone to other agencies
before she came to us,
2035
01:57:38,347 --> 01:57:40,884
and she hadn't gotten anywhere,
2036
01:57:40,949 --> 01:57:42,752
um, so, you know,
out of frustration,
2037
01:57:42,817 --> 01:57:46,089
she said, "I--I don't know
who I am."
2038
01:57:46,154 --> 01:57:48,123
Jordan took Nejdra's information
2039
01:57:48,189 --> 01:57:50,158
and a complete physical
description
2040
01:57:50,223 --> 01:57:53,228
and passed it to the
center's analysts.
2041
01:57:53,293 --> 01:57:56,599
We knew, based upon
Netty's age,
2042
01:57:56,663 --> 01:58:00,470
that we could rule out
cases prior to 1987.
2043
01:58:00,533 --> 01:58:03,705
But then we began to look
at a wide range of cases
2044
01:58:03,769 --> 01:58:05,940
subsequent to 1987.
2045
01:58:06,005 --> 01:58:07,640
The child could've been taken
when she was
2046
01:58:07,706 --> 01:58:10,745
1 or 2 or even 3 years old
2047
01:58:10,809 --> 01:58:13,581
and not have any memory of her--
of her birth parents.
2048
01:58:13,645 --> 01:58:15,749
Finally, the analysts came up
2049
01:58:15,814 --> 01:58:18,151
with what they believed
was the best match--
2050
01:58:18,216 --> 01:58:19,886
Carlina White.
2051
01:58:19,951 --> 01:58:22,588
On January 4, 2011,
2052
01:58:22,653 --> 01:58:26,026
a caseworker called Joy White,
Carlina's mother.
2053
01:58:26,089 --> 01:58:28,194
I was at work
when he called me,
2054
01:58:28,258 --> 01:58:32,199
and I was like,
"You found my daughter?"
2055
01:58:32,262 --> 01:58:34,499
So I left my desk,
and I went downstairs
2056
01:58:34,564 --> 01:58:36,501
and I just started crying,
2057
01:58:36,566 --> 01:58:38,569
and I started screaming.
2058
01:58:38,635 --> 01:58:40,270
The caseworker sent pictures
2059
01:58:40,336 --> 01:58:42,406
of the girl they'd identified
as Carlina
2060
01:58:42,471 --> 01:58:45,243
to Joy and Carlina's father, Carl.
2061
01:58:45,307 --> 01:58:47,245
And when he emailed
me those pictures,
2062
01:58:47,309 --> 01:58:49,313
I sat there and I cried.
2063
01:58:49,378 --> 01:58:52,316
She looked just like Joy
used to look like in the day.
2064
01:58:52,380 --> 01:58:54,852
Then I called Joy up--
I said, "Joy."
2065
01:58:54,917 --> 01:58:57,288
she said, "Yeah"--
I said, "Joy,
2066
01:58:57,352 --> 01:58:59,255
she look like
she could be our daughter."
2067
01:58:59,320 --> 01:59:01,591
And then Joy got another call.
2068
01:59:01,656 --> 01:59:05,029
And she said, "Hi, Mom,"
and that touched me.
2069
01:59:05,092 --> 01:59:06,929
She had me on
speaker--we talked.
2070
01:59:06,994 --> 01:59:08,629
My aunts was
in the background yellin',
2071
01:59:08,695 --> 01:59:10,698
saying "come home"--
they knew it was me.
2072
01:59:10,764 --> 01:59:12,134
Nobody couldn't
believe it.
2073
01:59:12,199 --> 01:59:15,572
We were all in here
going crazy--so happy.
2074
01:59:15,635 --> 01:59:17,038
Joy notified
2075
01:59:17,103 --> 01:59:19,207
the New York City
police department.
2076
01:59:19,272 --> 01:59:21,542
I said, "Hello,
my name is Joy White,
2077
01:59:21,607 --> 01:59:23,277
"and I'm the mother
of Carlina White
2078
01:59:23,342 --> 01:59:26,247
"that was
missin' in 1987,
2079
01:59:26,312 --> 01:59:28,783
and she have been found."
2080
01:59:33,151 --> 01:59:35,789
In January 2011,
2081
01:59:35,853 --> 01:59:39,227
more than 23 years after
a baby named Carlina White
2082
01:59:39,290 --> 01:59:41,527
was stolen from Harlem Hospital,
2083
01:59:41,593 --> 01:59:46,435
she was reunited with her
birth parents, Joy and Carl.
2084
01:59:46,497 --> 01:59:49,636
Okay, big smile.
2085
01:59:49,700 --> 01:59:52,605
I was nervous--
I was definitely nervous.
2086
01:59:52,669 --> 01:59:54,472
You want some bread
for that pasta?
2087
01:59:54,537 --> 01:59:56,440
She flew up here
from Atlanta,
2088
01:59:56,506 --> 01:59:59,245
her and my granddaughter,
and I made sure that, uh,
2089
01:59:59,309 --> 02:00:00,944
all the family was here.
2090
02:00:01,010 --> 02:00:02,947
They--all the--
all my family came over,
2091
02:00:03,012 --> 02:00:06,251
and we cooked,
and we just enjoyed each other.
2092
02:00:06,315 --> 02:00:09,320
Look, we go, um, forehead
and everything over here.
2093
02:00:09,384 --> 02:00:13,793
Carlina, she was a sweet,
adorable, beautiful girl,
2094
02:00:13,855 --> 02:00:17,027
And right away I seen Carl,
her father's, eyes.
2095
02:00:17,092 --> 02:00:19,529
"Oh God," I said, "you
got your father's eyes."
2096
02:00:19,594 --> 02:00:21,899
So I hugged her,
and I'm like, "Oh my God."
2097
02:00:21,963 --> 02:00:23,432
She saw tears
comin' from my eyes.
2098
02:00:23,498 --> 02:00:25,033
I said, "I can't
believe this."
2099
02:00:25,099 --> 02:00:28,104
Joy comin' downstairs,
and Joy said, "That's our baby."
2100
02:00:28,168 --> 02:00:29,838
And I say, "Yeah,
that's our baby."
2101
02:00:29,903 --> 02:00:31,841
At the time, the reunion
2102
02:00:31,905 --> 02:00:34,176
was everything
they had hoped for.
2103
02:00:34,241 --> 02:00:36,979
When she was here,
it was like, uh,
2104
02:00:37,043 --> 02:00:40,149
nothin' never happened,
like she was never lost.
2105
02:00:40,212 --> 02:00:41,916
I didn't feel anything
else but happiness.
2106
02:00:41,981 --> 02:00:43,383
She would say to me, like,
2107
02:00:43,449 --> 02:00:45,052
"Why're you staring
at me like that?"
2108
02:00:45,118 --> 02:00:47,455
I don't think that she
understood
2109
02:00:47,520 --> 02:00:49,122
how much I missed her,
2110
02:00:49,188 --> 02:00:52,293
and I couldn't believe
that she was in front of me,
2111
02:00:52,357 --> 02:00:54,094
and it was just, oh God--
2112
02:00:54,159 --> 02:00:56,029
it was just so unbelievable.
2113
02:00:56,094 --> 02:00:58,031
The whole thing
is unbelievable.
2114
02:00:58,096 --> 02:00:59,698
But after the reunion...
2115
02:01:01,098 --> 02:01:02,701
...problems quickly developed.
2116
02:01:02,767 --> 02:01:06,006
The story of the young woman
who discovered her true identity
2117
02:01:06,070 --> 02:01:07,873
became big news.
2118
02:01:07,938 --> 02:01:10,009
Now to an unbelievable
reunion...
2119
02:01:10,074 --> 02:01:12,445
23-year-old Carlina White
of Georgia
2120
02:01:12,509 --> 02:01:14,546
had long suspected she
wasn't related
2121
02:01:14,611 --> 02:01:16,548
to the people who raised her.
2122
02:01:16,613 --> 02:01:18,917
By the time she was
headed home to Atlanta,
2123
02:01:18,982 --> 02:01:22,188
where she lived,
the media had descended.
2124
02:01:22,251 --> 02:01:25,024
I think she was
a little overwhelmed,
2125
02:01:25,088 --> 02:01:29,095
and I think she was
a little spooked
2126
02:01:29,159 --> 02:01:32,866
by the attention.
2127
02:01:32,929 --> 02:01:35,633
The media attention
had another consequence.
2128
02:01:35,698 --> 02:01:38,503
The Pettway family, who
she'd grown up with as Nejdra,
2129
02:01:38,568 --> 02:01:41,840
now heard the whole story.
2130
02:01:41,904 --> 02:01:44,742
I found out about it on the news.
2131
02:01:44,807 --> 02:01:47,278
My emotions were so mixed up.
2132
02:01:47,342 --> 02:01:49,646
I was sad.
2133
02:01:49,711 --> 02:01:52,650
I was happy that she got
the answers that she wanted.
2134
02:01:52,714 --> 02:01:54,584
I was--it was just a bunch of--
2135
02:01:54,649 --> 02:01:56,786
a ball of emotions all in me.
2136
02:01:56,851 --> 02:01:58,955
Everybody was really happy
for her,
2137
02:01:59,020 --> 02:02:01,657
and they told her,
"You found your family,
2138
02:02:01,722 --> 02:02:04,727
but we'll still be
your family also."
2139
02:02:04,791 --> 02:02:06,327
Once I did reach out,
2140
02:02:06,393 --> 02:02:09,465
they said that nothing
really changed for them.
2141
02:02:09,529 --> 02:02:11,032
They still loved me
the same way.
2142
02:02:11,098 --> 02:02:12,800
I'm still their cousin.
2143
02:02:12,865 --> 02:02:15,269
But there was
still a big question:
2144
02:02:15,335 --> 02:02:17,572
What would happen
to Ann Pettway,
2145
02:02:17,637 --> 02:02:19,473
whom authorities believed
was the one
2146
02:02:19,538 --> 02:02:22,777
who took baby Carlina
from Harlem Hospital?
2147
02:02:22,841 --> 02:02:25,913
When police went looking
for her in North Carolina,
2148
02:02:25,977 --> 02:02:28,816
where she'd moved,
she was gone.
2149
02:02:28,880 --> 02:02:32,152
Her sister says she wanted
to bring her 13-year-old son
2150
02:02:32,217 --> 02:02:35,256
to be with her family
in Bridgeport Connecticut.
2151
02:02:35,319 --> 02:02:38,024
They make it out
to be like she was
2152
02:02:38,088 --> 02:02:40,827
some crazed animal
or something like that,
2153
02:02:40,891 --> 02:02:43,362
and--and it wasn't like that.
2154
02:02:43,427 --> 02:02:47,101
She knew she had to go and take
care of her responsibilities,
2155
02:02:47,164 --> 02:02:50,102
and that's what she went
to go do.
2156
02:02:51,635 --> 02:02:53,805
On January 23, 2011,
2157
02:02:53,870 --> 02:02:57,409
Ann turned herself in
to authorities in Bridgeport.
2158
02:02:57,473 --> 02:03:01,447
She gave a statement saying
she had caused a lot of pain,
2159
02:03:01,510 --> 02:03:03,513
but she pled "not guilty"
2160
02:03:03,579 --> 02:03:06,216
to the kidnapping charge
brought against her.
2161
02:03:06,281 --> 02:03:07,917
She's upset.
2162
02:03:07,983 --> 02:03:10,787
Um, she's concerned
about the impact this has
2163
02:03:10,851 --> 02:03:13,056
on all the members
of her family.
2164
02:03:13,121 --> 02:03:14,857
For every court hearing,
2165
02:03:14,922 --> 02:03:17,894
members of the Pettway family
and Carlina White's family
2166
02:03:17,959 --> 02:03:19,996
were on hand.
2167
02:03:20,060 --> 02:03:21,864
She act like nothin'
never happened,
2168
02:03:21,929 --> 02:03:24,166
like she didn't do
anything, and, um,
2169
02:03:24,231 --> 02:03:27,570
she have no remorse whatsoever.
2170
02:03:27,634 --> 02:03:31,040
My stomach feels sick
when I see her.
2171
02:03:31,104 --> 02:03:33,608
But for Carlina,
who was raised by Ann,
2172
02:03:33,673 --> 02:03:36,245
the subject
was more complicated.
2173
02:03:36,309 --> 02:03:39,013
I would just like to know
what's the reason behind it.
2174
02:03:39,077 --> 02:03:40,915
I want to know her side
of the story,
2175
02:03:40,980 --> 02:03:42,349
because I don't know her side.
2176
02:03:42,414 --> 02:03:44,786
Watching the woman who
raised her face jail time
2177
02:03:44,850 --> 02:03:47,654
was difficult,
especially because she was
2178
02:03:47,719 --> 02:03:50,257
the one who set it in motion.
2179
02:03:50,322 --> 02:03:52,793
I didn't acknowledge that
she was gonna go to jail,
2180
02:03:52,857 --> 02:03:55,929
and get tooken away,
you know, from my brother,
2181
02:03:55,994 --> 02:03:57,196
and they're separated,
2182
02:03:57,261 --> 02:03:59,298
and now he has to come up
without his mom.
2183
02:03:59,363 --> 02:04:01,433
I'm-a speak from my heart.
2184
02:04:01,499 --> 02:04:03,936
If I was able to give her
another chance, I would.
2185
02:04:04,001 --> 02:04:06,338
Her serving time is...
2186
02:04:06,402 --> 02:04:08,240
not gonna do much.
2187
02:04:08,305 --> 02:04:09,507
The disagreement
2188
02:04:09,572 --> 02:04:11,475
over what should happen
to Ann Pettway
2189
02:04:11,541 --> 02:04:15,515
caused a serious rift.
2190
02:04:15,578 --> 02:04:17,815
I think that they
should lock her up,
2191
02:04:17,880 --> 02:04:19,415
and, um, throw
away the key.
2192
02:04:19,481 --> 02:04:21,551
I think that she
needs to do life, uh,
2193
02:04:21,616 --> 02:04:26,360
for what she did to me.
2194
02:04:26,421 --> 02:04:28,859
The anger that they givin' off
2195
02:04:28,923 --> 02:04:31,495
is only satisfyin' them.
2196
02:04:31,559 --> 02:04:34,331
It's like, you doin' that,
2197
02:04:34,395 --> 02:04:36,899
not carin'
about how I'm feelin'.
2198
02:04:36,964 --> 02:04:40,203
And other disagreements developed.
2199
02:04:40,267 --> 02:04:42,337
At the reunion,
a story came out
2200
02:04:42,402 --> 02:04:46,276
that Ann had mistreated Carlina
as she was growing up.
2201
02:04:46,340 --> 02:04:49,245
She told me that she
used to beat her with a shoe
2202
02:04:49,309 --> 02:04:51,880
and leave a shoe print
on her face.
2203
02:04:51,944 --> 02:04:55,451
And, um, when she
told me that, I cried.
2204
02:04:55,514 --> 02:04:57,618
For someone else to take
my daughter
2205
02:04:57,683 --> 02:04:59,920
and to treat her that way,
you know,
2206
02:04:59,986 --> 02:05:01,788
that was very hurtful.
2207
02:05:04,189 --> 02:05:08,330
The story caused a crisis
in the Pettway family.
2208
02:05:08,393 --> 02:05:12,501
Me and Nejdra sat and cried,
2209
02:05:12,564 --> 02:05:17,039
and it hurt us so bad,
because it wasn't that bad.
2210
02:05:17,101 --> 02:05:20,307
She was loved--
she was not mistreated.
2211
02:05:20,371 --> 02:05:22,074
There was no abuse.
2212
02:05:22,139 --> 02:05:24,176
I don't look at it
as me being abused.
2213
02:05:24,241 --> 02:05:28,382
It's just, I guess, the words
that they put out there,
2214
02:05:28,445 --> 02:05:31,617
They take, you know,
what you say, mix it up
2215
02:05:31,681 --> 02:05:34,286
and make it sound
as how they want it to be.
2216
02:05:36,185 --> 02:05:38,490
And then there was
the question of money.
2217
02:05:38,554 --> 02:05:40,624
In a family where
no one had much,
2218
02:05:40,689 --> 02:05:43,294
it became a contentious issue.
2219
02:05:43,358 --> 02:05:46,697
The settlement that Joy and Carl
received from Harlem Hospital
2220
02:05:46,761 --> 02:05:49,399
had long since been spent.
2221
02:05:49,464 --> 02:05:51,935
Things were, uh, rocky,
2222
02:05:51,999 --> 02:05:53,603
with, you know,
far as, uh,
2223
02:05:53,668 --> 02:05:55,938
the financial situation.
2224
02:05:56,003 --> 02:05:57,706
Um, I have kids.
2225
02:05:57,772 --> 02:05:59,841
Carl have kids, and, um,
2226
02:05:59,907 --> 02:06:01,944
we used the money to live.
2227
02:06:02,008 --> 02:06:06,350
That was a choice
that we had to make at the time.
2228
02:06:06,413 --> 02:06:09,285
Carlina insisted it
didn't matter.
2229
02:06:09,349 --> 02:06:12,455
I could care less
about that money,
2230
02:06:12,518 --> 02:06:15,458
'cause I didn't have it
from the beginning.
2231
02:06:15,521 --> 02:06:18,561
I was searchin'
just to find who I was.
2232
02:06:18,625 --> 02:06:22,498
The situation, so promising
in January 2011,
2233
02:06:22,561 --> 02:06:24,231
fell apart quickly.
2234
02:06:24,296 --> 02:06:26,533
She went back home,
2235
02:06:26,598 --> 02:06:29,637
so we haven't seen her since.
2236
02:06:29,701 --> 02:06:31,704
As winter turned to spring,
2237
02:06:31,770 --> 02:06:33,339
there was no second reunion.
2238
02:06:33,404 --> 02:06:36,643
In fact, there was very
little communication.
2239
02:06:36,707 --> 02:06:38,777
Wow, it's like
I found her and, um,
2240
02:06:38,843 --> 02:06:40,913
but she's still lost.
2241
02:06:40,978 --> 02:06:43,583
It's eatin' Joy up inside
2242
02:06:43,648 --> 02:06:46,887
to know that her
daughter is alive,
2243
02:06:46,951 --> 02:06:49,021
and her daughter's
not with her.
2244
02:06:49,086 --> 02:06:52,625
Her daughter's turnin' back to
the people that's kidnapped her.
2245
02:06:52,689 --> 02:06:55,728
When people all
of a sudden are found,
2246
02:06:55,792 --> 02:06:58,663
then there's this great,
uh, brouhaha,
2247
02:06:58,727 --> 02:07:00,697
and excitement
and celebration,
2248
02:07:00,762 --> 02:07:03,235
there's sort of like
a halo effect that takes place,
2249
02:07:03,299 --> 02:07:06,137
and you believe everything's
gonna be great from now on,
2250
02:07:06,201 --> 02:07:09,206
but these are very difficult,
complicated issues.
2251
02:07:09,270 --> 02:07:12,243
They're not easily resolved.
2252
02:07:12,307 --> 02:07:14,144
Dr. Geoffrey Greif
has interviewed
2253
02:07:14,209 --> 02:07:16,713
many people who were
abducted as children,
2254
02:07:16,777 --> 02:07:19,249
and followed them
as they became adults.
2255
02:07:19,313 --> 02:07:20,849
He says the division
2256
02:07:20,915 --> 02:07:23,352
between Carlina and her
birth parents is typical.
2257
02:07:23,417 --> 02:07:25,654
There were a lot of people
I've interviewed
2258
02:07:25,719 --> 02:07:28,524
who did not know that they'd
even been kidnapped.
2259
02:07:28,588 --> 02:07:30,759
That would cause you to question
2260
02:07:30,824 --> 02:07:33,829
the previous 15 or 20 years
of your life,
2261
02:07:33,894 --> 02:07:36,598
because you don't know
what to believe anymore
2262
02:07:36,662 --> 02:07:39,801
when something that significant
has been told to you
2263
02:07:39,865 --> 02:07:42,336
that's not true.
2264
02:07:42,401 --> 02:07:43,670
For the birth parents,
2265
02:07:43,736 --> 02:07:45,739
there is a different set
of issues to reconcile.
2266
02:07:45,804 --> 02:07:47,374
All of the sudden,
2267
02:07:47,439 --> 02:07:49,342
they've received the child
back in their life,
2268
02:07:49,408 --> 02:07:51,812
and they are apt to treat
the child
2269
02:07:51,876 --> 02:07:54,347
as if the child was still
very young.
2270
02:07:54,412 --> 02:07:57,384
They have to step back
a long ways
2271
02:07:57,448 --> 02:07:59,953
and try and realize
who this person is now
2272
02:08:00,018 --> 02:08:04,058
and try and construct
a meaningful relationship
2273
02:08:04,120 --> 02:08:06,358
based on who the person is now,
2274
02:08:06,424 --> 02:08:09,195
not who they wish
the person could've been
2275
02:08:09,259 --> 02:08:11,229
had they raised her.
2276
02:08:11,294 --> 02:08:12,696
Joy White said that was
2277
02:08:12,762 --> 02:08:14,832
just what she wanted to do.
2278
02:08:14,897 --> 02:08:17,167
I was havin' trouble
when it first happened,
2279
02:08:17,233 --> 02:08:19,805
but I had to sit down
and I had to analyze everything
2280
02:08:19,869 --> 02:08:21,739
and now I feel really bad.
2281
02:08:21,804 --> 02:08:24,175
I feel sorry for her.
2282
02:08:24,240 --> 02:08:26,009
I feel bad for her,
2283
02:08:26,075 --> 02:08:28,178
because I know that she's going
through something emotion,
2284
02:08:28,244 --> 02:08:29,579
because I am too.
2285
02:08:29,644 --> 02:08:32,349
I'm her mother, and I'm going
through somethin' right now.
2286
02:08:32,413 --> 02:08:34,250
But building a relationship
would mean
2287
02:08:34,315 --> 02:08:36,485
accepting that her daughter
was still loyal
2288
02:08:36,551 --> 02:08:39,657
to the Pettway family.
2289
02:08:39,720 --> 02:08:43,226
I'm-a have a relationship
with that family,
2290
02:08:43,290 --> 02:08:45,360
and if y'all want
a relationship with me
2291
02:08:45,425 --> 02:08:47,262
y'all have to be
able to accept
2292
02:08:47,327 --> 02:08:49,964
that I'm still going to be
affiliated with that family.
2293
02:08:50,029 --> 02:08:52,501
I look at it as I should
be free to be able--
2294
02:08:52,566 --> 02:08:54,436
to speak to who I want
to speak to,
2295
02:08:54,501 --> 02:08:56,605
to consider who I want
to be my aunt,
2296
02:08:56,669 --> 02:08:59,241
want to be my uncle,
my cousins and my friends.
2297
02:08:59,305 --> 02:09:01,676
Even her name was an issue.
2298
02:09:01,740 --> 02:09:04,412
Legally, she was
changing it to Carlina,
2299
02:09:04,477 --> 02:09:08,317
but she said she
would always be Netty.
2300
02:09:08,379 --> 02:09:12,054
Nejdra and Carlina is like
in between two families,
2301
02:09:12,117 --> 02:09:13,919
so one side know Nejdra,
2302
02:09:13,985 --> 02:09:15,154
the other side
know Carlina.
2303
02:09:15,220 --> 02:09:16,522
So Netty is just me.
2304
02:09:16,588 --> 02:09:18,057
Go ahead, girl.
2305
02:09:18,122 --> 02:09:20,259
She was receiving help
from psychologists
2306
02:09:20,324 --> 02:09:23,596
at the National Center for
Missing and Exploited Children.
2307
02:09:23,660 --> 02:09:25,397
Netty is really a good person--
2308
02:09:25,462 --> 02:09:28,968
really a caring person
who is in the middle,
2309
02:09:29,032 --> 02:09:31,403
uh, of a--of a storm.
2310
02:09:31,467 --> 02:09:34,372
I mean, she goes from being
the mom of a 5-year-old
2311
02:09:34,437 --> 02:09:37,242
with questions about her history
2312
02:09:37,307 --> 02:09:41,113
to being in the center
of a media frenzy,
2313
02:09:41,176 --> 02:09:43,915
with everybody wanting
a piece of her
2314
02:09:43,979 --> 02:09:46,450
and everybody wanting
to talk to her
2315
02:09:46,515 --> 02:09:49,220
and use her
and manipulate her.
2316
02:09:49,284 --> 02:09:53,492
And she needs some time,
and some space,
2317
02:09:53,555 --> 02:09:56,459
and the ability to sort
through all of this.
2318
02:09:56,524 --> 02:09:58,094
We're trying to help her
do that.
2319
02:09:58,159 --> 02:10:00,429
I think that, um, one
day, she'll come along,
2320
02:10:00,494 --> 02:10:02,698
and she'll understand
2321
02:10:02,763 --> 02:10:05,000
what her real mother
is goin' through.
2322
02:10:05,065 --> 02:10:07,235
Carlina, listen.
2323
02:10:07,300 --> 02:10:09,604
You know your mother
and father love you.
2324
02:10:09,670 --> 02:10:12,708
We had a happy beginnin',
2325
02:10:12,772 --> 02:10:14,542
and we can still
make this happy.
2326
02:10:14,607 --> 02:10:16,510
We all want to see you.
2327
02:10:16,576 --> 02:10:20,282
You don't know how much love
you have from all of us.
2328
02:10:20,346 --> 02:10:21,849
Through it all,
2329
02:10:21,914 --> 02:10:24,852
the young woman who found
out she was Carlina White
2330
02:10:24,917 --> 02:10:26,919
said she was glad she did.
2331
02:10:26,985 --> 02:10:29,022
I look at every day
as a better day
2332
02:10:29,087 --> 02:10:31,492
for me to just wake up
and acknowledge
2333
02:10:31,557 --> 02:10:33,092
that I do know who I am.
2334
02:10:33,158 --> 02:10:35,061
I know who my parents are.
2335
02:10:35,126 --> 02:10:37,029
I'm good at just knowin' that.
2336
02:10:37,095 --> 02:10:39,566
And she, too,
hoped that someday,
2337
02:10:39,630 --> 02:10:43,269
she would share her life
with that family as well.
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