In the Los Angeles Times newspaper, there is an article about a woman who kidnapped a baby and raised it as her own for twenty-four years titled, "Woman who stole baby 24 years ago (and raised it) pleads guilty" written by Michael Muskal. Carlina White, born in 1987, was kidnapped by Ann Pettway, a woman who pretended to be a nurse to kidnap the baby. Pettway was tempted to do so after many several miscarriages. “I took a child... It was wrong”, said Pettway at her latest hearing. Her sentence will be held in May. For now, it is sure that her sentence will be somewhere between ten to twelve and a half years. Ann Pettway is now fifty-one years old.
Ann Pettway did not have a birth certificate to give to Carlina White. This was the reason she turned to a website which specialized in missing children. She was able to make a relation between pictures from a result on the website, with her own baby pictures. She then found her biological mother, Joy White. Joy White went twenty-four years in wonder and without her missed child, and says that Ann Pettway should serve the same amount of time in prison.
Wow! This article's topic is extremely disturbing and mind boggling. Ann Pettway is one very disgusting and sick person. I could not even imagine how she could have stolen a newborn baby! I feel better that she admitted to her crime but I think that she should serve a long prison sentence. Armen, I liked the way that you presented the information. Everything was very clear and interesting. You picked an extremely good article. Keep up the good work.
ReplyDeleteHey Armen! Your article is unbelievable! You can not just go around stealing babies, and raising them for 24 years, this woman is crazy! I feel really bad for Joy and Carlina White. It is sad that they had been separated for such a long time because if that crazy woman. If you really want a kid you can just adopt one, not casually steal someone elses. Anyway, good job Armen, I realy enjoyed reading this!
ReplyDeleteOh wow this is a very interesting article! It is amazing how many stupid and disrespectful people there are out there! How can one steal someone else's child and keep them for twenty four years? That is just crazy. Good job the choice of article. Very interesting!
ReplyDeleteHey Armen, wow that is the craziest story I have ever heard, how would you feel human to do such a thing, to take a baby and raise it as yours, atleast she could have adopted one, not steal one! Very interesting blog Armen, keep it up.
ReplyDeleteHello Armen. Wow, this article was shocking! I cannot believe someone would actually take someone else's baby just like that. I could not imagine how the mother felt having her baby kidnapped the day she had her. I am pretty surprised Carlina did not realize all of this sooner,though. Great job, keep it up buddy. :)
ReplyDeleteThis is crazy! I should have commented last night because now I have waken up.to a terrible story like this! Good job picking out this article though... A lot of people pick a very boring or lame article, and therefore, have to make the rest of is suffer! Though I was ecstatic about the content of this article, it was a lot better than an article about trees or something...
ReplyDeleteHi Armen! This is a crazy article! How could you just go around stealing babies! I have never heard of anything like this before! This is a very interesting article and you did a great job at presenting it! Keep it up Armen! I am also wondering on what the real mother is thinking of this right now! So sad!
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