Baby kidnapped when 9 days old, returns to family after 23 years.

[Krynn72]

Carlina was taken to Bridgeport, Conn., and, later, Atlanta where she was given a new name, Nejdra Nance, and was raised by a new family, unaware for 23 years that her biological family was actually in New York City.

"Nejdra Nance was very suspicious of who she was and what family raised her," Lt. Christopher Zimmerman of the New York Police Department said. "There was no paperwork to follow her such as a birth certificate or social security card. In her late teens she became suspicious of who she was."

When Carlina White was unable to get a driver's license and saw no biological resemblance to the people she was living with, she grew suspicious.

"She said she just had a feeling, she felt different from the people raising her," Carlina White's maternal grandmother, Elizabeth White, told the Associated Press.

Carlina White decided to take matters into her own hands.

She began looking at web sites for missing children, including the National Center For Missing and Exploited Children. Searching for her birth year, she spotted a photo of a baby along with a composite of how the child would look at 19.

The photos looked eerily similar to the baby photos Carlina White had at the house where she was living in Georgia.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/kidnapped-carlina-white-solves-cold-case-reunites-parents/story?id=12712313

 

[Rossell]

Wow. Just.....wow.

 

[Ren.182]

Good for her.

Hope the woman that took her as a baby get's what she deserves.

 

[hool10]

Good for her.

Hope the woman that took her as a baby get's what she deserves.

If your mom, well the mom you have known for 23 years, turned out was not your mom, would you want her to "get what she deserves"?

 

[Ren.182]

Well, she had her doubts for quite a while. She'd been lied to for 23 years of her life and kept away from her real family. Maybe they did take good care of her, but I bet all trust she had for them has been broken since she's found out the truth. She may still love them or whatever but she'll never trust them again.

It's hard to say isn't it, I doubt any of us have been in a situation like this. But looking in from the outside the kidnapper should get some sort of punishment I feel.

 

[Vegeta897]

If your mom, well the mom you have known for 23 years, turned out was not your mom, would you want her to "get what she deserves"?

A very good question. I know that if I was told my mom stole me as an infant, I wouldn't want to go to my 'real' mom. I'd just want things to stay as they were.

But we must consider the fact that this child felt disconnected and unrelated to her parents. Perhaps she feels differently about the whole thing. I mean, the fact that she was trying to find proof that she had the wrong parents is an indication that she is comfortable with leaving them behind.

If you loved your parents, would you go looking for something that says they stole you as an infant? Ignorance is bliss, but this girl was not in bliss.

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

The "get what she deserves part" of his post is f*cking stupid, where the woman that actually raised her isn't even the bitch who kidnapped her in the first place. Read the article.

 

[Ren.182]

I said I hoped the woman that took her as a baby gets what she deserves.

Besides, the people that raised her must have known something about it too. People don't just give you a baby and then you go on and raise it like it's your own. Unless they were scammed by the kidnapper posing as some child welfare officer or something and the family thought they were adopting her.

 

[Raziaar]

She began looking at web sites for missing children, including the National Center For Missing and Exploited Children. Searching for her birth year, she spotted a photo of a baby along with a composite of how the child would look at 19.

The photos looked eerily similar to the baby photos Carlina White had at the house where she was living in Georgia.

But obviously the computer aging process looked nothing like her because THERE WAS NO MENTION ABOUT THAT THEY ONLY WENT TO MENTION THE BABY PHOTOS.

If your mom, well the mom you have known for 23 years, turned out was not your mom, would you want her to "get what she deserves"?

"Hey mom... I'm going to steal the car for a few days. No no it's okay, you understand completely right? I mean... yeah. Hey mind if I have some shopping money too? Wouldn't want to have to go out and steal some from somebody at an ATM or something hehehe."

 

[hool10]

The "get what she deserves part" of his post is f*cking stupid, where the woman that actually raised her isn't even the bitch who kidnapped her in the first place. Read the article.

The "get what she deserves part" of his post is f*cking stupid, where the woman that actually raised her isn't even the bitch who kidnapped her in the first place. Read the article.

No he read it right. The family had brought the girl to the hospital when she was 9 days old and this woman had kidnapped her and raised her for 23 years. Everybody at one point looks themselves up online or wishes their parents aren't really theirs. Just turns out that this was the case. Yeah the woman will get something most likely though. This article reminds me of "Raising Arizona". She was very fortunate she wasn't raised by those people who raped that girl and kept her in the back yard and even brain washed her. *She posed as a nurse Ren.182 and took her.

 

[dfc05]

Nah, if you read it, they specifically say the police are still searching for the woman who stole the baby and that she might have lived with multiple families as a baby -- implying the one she was raised by weren't the ones to kidnap her.

Anyhow, I like how her real family seem to be good people. Not everyone would take the lawsuit money and actually put it aside in a trust fund for a kid they don't know is coming back.

 

[Krynn72]

What is all this "the fake mom shouldn't be punished because shes a kind-of mom" bullshit. The lady STOLE A 9 DAY OLD BABY. She needs to face justice. Just because she wasn't a terrible mother to her stolen baby doesn't mean she didn't steal A ****ING BABY.

That said, Willie isn't really wrong. They aren't sure that the family she recognizes is the one who took her. The second to last paragraph say this:

Police are now searching for the woman who kidnapped Carlina White. Since Carlina was so young when she was kidnapped, it's possible that she could have lived with more than one family as a child and doesn't remember.

Still, even if it was the woman she called mom, she should face justice for kidnapping.

 

[Raziaar]

What is all this "the fake mom shouldn't be punished because shes a kind-of mom" bullshit. The lady STOLE A 9 DAY OLD BABY. She needs to face justice. Just because she wasn't a terrible mother to her stolen baby doesn't mean she didn't steal A ****ING BABY.

I'm not quite sure that's what they're saying... or at least some might be saying but aren't intending. They seems to be applying more of an emotion thing to it... that the stolen baby shouldn't necessarily despise the thief mom.

 

[Krynn72]

Well thats a whole other thing, but I assume the lady being sentenced with kidnapping would be "what she deserves."

 

[Raziaar]

Pretty much.

What's the statute of limitation on kidnapping anyway?

 

[Krynn72]

According to this site, there is no amount of time that a person could be safe from prosecution for kiddnapping.

http://www.ehow.com/about_6607822_statute-limitations-kidnapping.html

Because of the serious nature of kidnapping, the laws in each of the 50 states as well as on the federal level impose no statute of limitations on kidnapping cases. In other words, there is no time frame during which kidnapping charges must be filed. No matter when charges end up being brought, no time limitation prevents prosecution.

Read more: The Statute of Limitations on Kidnapping | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/about_6607822_statute-limitations-kidnapping.html#ixzz1BeZAX5Ky

 

[Raziaar]

Makes sense. Would be too rewarding for Kidnappers since so many of them manage to get away with it for at least as long as it takes for the child to reach adulthood if not longer.

 

[Bad^Hat]

Couldn't find it in the article, but the video mentions that her mother wants to press charges against the woman she was raised by because she "mistreated" her. So, yeah, maybe she does deserve something.

Everybody at one point looks themselves up online or wishes their parents aren't really theirs.

Haha, we do?

 

[Raziaar]

Depends on the definition of mistreated? I had a miserable childhood mistreated or "I was mentally and physically abused" mistreated?

 

[Krynn72]

Yeah, I meant to say something about that as well. I've never looked up my birth records to see if I was kidnapped before. Nor do I recall ever wishing my parents weren't really my parents, except maybe that once when I was like 6 and they wouldn't buy me that bad ass motorized car from Toys R Us. But really, what kid wouldn't hate their parents when they denied them this:

 

[Raziaar]

God damn I always wanted one of those things. I wanted a go kart more, but those were always hot on my list.

Even do this day, non conventional automobiles like golf carts and ATV's and stuff seem fun as hell to me. Just the idea of being able to drive around without structured rules.

But anyway, that's not the point of this thread so I'll shut up and go to bed.

 

[Katamariguy]

Adopting children from kidnappers can't be good.