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date (day) time network episode title
10/6/12 (Sa.)8:00 PMLIFETIMEN/A






ABDUCTED: THE CARLINA WHITE STORY (LIFETIME)
BROADCAST HISTORY:
10/6/12
STATUS:
telefilm/mini-series in the can
DESCRIPTION:
(from Lifetime's press release, August 2012) The original movie Abducted: The Carlina White Story, starring Aunjanue Ellis (The Help), Keke Palmer (True Jackson, VP), and Emmy(R) Award winner Sherri Shepherd (The View), will make its world premiere on Saturday, October 6, at 8 pm ET/PT on Lifetime. The film is based on a remarkable true story of the kidnapping of Carlina White (Palmer), who was abducted as an infant by Ann Pettway (Ellis) 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 30th of this year, Pettway was sentenced in a New York court to 12 years in prison for kidnapping Carlina. In August of 1987, new parents Joy White (Shepherd) and Carl Tyson (Roger Cross, 24) took their 19-day-old daughter Carlina to Harlem Hospital in New York with a high fever. Ann Pettway, who had suffered a series of miscarriages and was desperate for a child of her own, posed as a hospital nurse and walked out of the hospital with Carlina hidden from view. While Joy and Carl desperately searched for their daughter over the years, Pettway was raisingCarlina as Nejdra "Netty" Nance in Bridgeport, Connecticut - a mere 45 miles from New York City. As Carlina grew older she began to suspect Pettway was not her birth mother and launched her own investigation. After contacting the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Carlina was reunited with her biological parents in January 2011.
PRINCIPAL CAST INFORMATION:
· Aunjanue Ellis as Ann Pettway
· Keke Palmer as Carlina White
· Roger Cross as Carl Tyson
· Sherri Shepherd as Joy White
CREW INFORMATION:
· Alan Gasmer as EP
· Craig Piligian as EP
· Elizabeth Hunter as WRTR
· Mary Martin as EP
· Vondie Curtis Hall as DIR
GENRE(S):
· mow
STUDIO INFORMATION:
· Pilgrim Studios