Nedjra Nance always had doubts about the abusive, drug-addicted woman she knew as her mother, and she was right. It turns out the woman, dressed as a nurse in a hospital, had kidnapped her from her parents as an infant.
The kidnapper, who lived in Connecticut, had evidently lost her own pregnancy when she showed up at a Harlem hospital in 1987 and hung around an emergency room until distraught parents handed her a baby they thought would receive care. (The parents, Carl Tyson and Joy White, eventually got a $750,000 settlement from the hospital for its negligence.)
Nance found out she was really Carlina White when she became pregnant at 16 and asked her “mother” for a birth certificate so she could apply for benefits. The story just didn’t add up, so White confronted the woman, who lied and said she had been abandoned by a drug addict mother.
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