{"id":12880,"date":"2012-02-16T15:16:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T20:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12880"},"modified":"2012-02-16T15:16:34","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T20:16:34","slug":"parents-of-newborn-stunned-by-kidnapper%e2%80%99s-10-year-plea-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12880","title":{"rendered":"Parents Of Newborn Stunned By Kidnapper\u2019s 10-Year Plea Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MANHATTAN &#8212; <strong>Joy White<\/strong> and <strong>Carl Tyson<\/strong>, parents of <strong>Carlina White,<\/strong> the infant stolen from Harlem Hospital when she was 19-days-old in 1987, sat in stunned disbelief as a Manhattan federal judge allowed kidnapper <strong>Ann Pettway (pictured)<\/strong>, 51, to escape the mandatory 20-year minimum sentence after copping a 10-year plea deal, reports the New York Post.<\/p>\n<p>After snatching <strong>Carlina<\/strong> from the hospital,<strong> Pettway<\/strong> convinced her family in Bridgeport, Connecticut that she gave birth to the baby before moving to Atlanta and raising the girl as her own for 23 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carlina\u2019s<\/strong> parents said that the sentence was a miscarriage of justice and that <strong>Pettway<\/strong> knew that she got off easy: \u201cShe can\u2019t even look me in the f\u2014king eye,\u201d a furious <strong>Tyson<\/strong> said as the baby-snatcher left the courtroom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>White<\/strong> said that <strong>Pettway<\/strong> should serve at least as much time as their daughter had been missing before she tracked them down last year:<br \/>\n\u201cI think she should serve at least 23 years, just like my daughter was missing 23 years,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The distraught mother said that she\u2019ll \u201cnever forget\u201d <strong>Pettway<\/strong> comforting her in the hospital when she bought baby <strong>Carlina<\/strong> in with a raging fever: \u201cShe came up to me and said, \u2018Don\u2019t cry. Your baby is going to be OK,\u2019 \u201d <strong>White<\/strong> said outside the Manhattan federal court. \u201cAnd she patted me on my shoulder . . . and she preyed on me. She is so mean. She is so cruel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tyson<\/strong> described himself as so \u201cpissed right about now\u201d as he angrily left the courtroom: \u201cIt wasn\u2019t what I expected,\u201d he said. \u201cGive her 23 years and you\u2019ll make me happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pettway<\/strong> will be sentenced May 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANHATTAN &#8212; Joy White and Carl Tyson, parents of Carlina White, the infant stolen from Harlem Hospital when she was 19-days-old in 1987, sat in stunned disbelief as a Manhattan federal judge allowed kidnapper Ann Pettway (pictured), 51, to escape the mandatory 20-year minimum sentence after copping a 10-year plea deal, reports the New York [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}