#moraldilema

I wonder if I would do what she did, however, I have not been in her situation, thus this might not mean anything.

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In 1987, Joy White brought her 3-week-old daughter to the hospital when she had a fever. Then the unthinkable happened…

A woman dressed as a nurse snuck into the hospital and kidnapped her baby girl, Carlina.

The story captured national attention as Joy and her husband Carl appeared on television begging the kidnapper to return her baby.

Years went by, then decades; Joy never gave up hope that she would see her daughter again, but the situation did appear to be hopeless.

The “nurse” who took Carlina was Ann Netty. After having difficulty conceiving, Ann kidnapped Carlina and raised her as her own daughter, who she called “Netty.”

Ann took Carlina from New York City to Connecticut and then to Georgia — miles away from her real family.

But Carlina became suspicious of her birth origins on her 16th birthday when she realized she didn’t resemble anyone in her family.

That same year, when Carlina became pregnant, she needed her own birth certificate to receive prenatal care. She asked her “mom” for her birth certificate, but she refused.

Carlina, already suspicious, went through Ann’s things and retrieved what she believed to be her birth certificate. When she brought the document to a government official, they all but accused her of stealing someone’s identity.

The birth certificate was fake…

When Carlina confronted Ann about the birth certificate, Ann admitted she wasn’t her biological mother, but told her an even more heartbreaking lie.

“Your mom left you,” Ann Pettway said, “and she never came back.”

That’s when Carlina decided to do some investigating of her own without many leads. Seven years later, Carlina went on the website of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Then she saw this photograph. It was a photograph of the missing Carlina White and a sketch of what she might look like today.

Carlina — still then Netty — believed her baby pictures resembled the photo and that she looked just like the sketch.

So she made a phone call that would forever change her life.

Carlina called Joy White, who notified police officers. They conducted a DNA test that concluded that Joy was in fact her biological mother.

In 2010, after 23 years of waiting, Joy was reunited with her daughter, and it’s all because Carlina used her wits to crack her own case.