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Abducted: The Carlina White Story (2012)

Abducted: The Carlina White Story poster
Directed by
Vondie Curtis-Hall
Genre
drama film, mystery film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 26m
Rated
PG
Rating
7.8 of 10 from 33 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman who was taken from a hospital as a baby uncovers the truth about her past and finds her biological parents. The film follows her journey as she solves her own kidnapping case.

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What happens

Abducted: The Carlina White Story is a Lifetime television film about Carlina White, who was abducted as an infant by Ann Pettway from a New York hospital and solved her own kidnapping and reunited with her biological parents 23 years later. The case is reported to be the first known infant abduction from a New York hospital. On July 30, 2012, Pettway was sentenced in a New York court to 12 years in prison for kidnapping Carlina. The movie premiered on October 6, 2012. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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