Girl Snatched From The Hospital With The Mother To Return 23 Years Later
"I hope it goes well," the grieving mother told reporters before collapsing in tears.
Now 23 years later, white weeping tears of joy that for decades the mystery of her missing daughter reaches a happy ending.
The saga began August 4, 1987, when White took her sick child, Carlina at Harlem Hospital because of high fever, a police officer in New York said.
Carlin was admitted to the hospital and resting at the White House. When the mother returned, Carlina has disappeared.
The years went by White was looking for his daughter, always paste a picture of a little girl, she only lasted three weeks.
The woman at the other end of the line said she was Carlina, and sent a white photo taken in 1987.
The face in the photo bears a strong resemblance to the child's image in tatters White wanted.
Police also agreed that the photos so similar, and performed a DNA test.
Tuesday, the results were back - and they had a fight.
"Carlin was the missing link" Pat Conway, Aunt Carlina White told CNN affiliate WABC when he raised his hands in the air. "We took it back. When the name of Jesus, Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia."
For its part, Carlina Renae White, had nursed a nagging sense that she was raised by a family, it does not belong to, "said Ernie Allen of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Educated under a different name, Carlina began to suspect that the woman who raised him could not provide a birth certificate.
Then, drag the Internet for answers, stumbling on the site of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. There, he stumbled upon an article about a girl who was taken to a hospital in New York.
He called the plant, which in turn reported to the authorities.
Authorities say little about the woman who raised Carlina White, who are continuing their investigation.
"I never lost hope," grandmother Carlina White, Elizabeth, told WABC. "It's as if she was around us all his life. It was not unknown. She moved in "