PETTWAY surrendered to authorities in Bridgeport, Connecticut. At that time, agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) interviewed PETTWAY who told them that she had difficulty having her own children and had several miscarriages. PETTWAY admitted going to Harlem Hospital, taking the Victim with her by train to Bridgeport, and raising her there as her own. PETTWAY also admitted to trying to create a fake birth certificate for the Victim.

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PETTWAY, 50, of Raleigh, North Carolina, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison. She is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Castel on May 14, 2012, at 11:00 a.m.

Mr. Bharara praised the work of the FBI and the NYPD in this case. He also extended his thanks to law enforcement authorities in North Carolina and Connecticut foronly as “the victim.”

The crime as described in the complaint was chilling in its ease. Little Carlina, 19 days old, had a fever, and her distraught parents took her in a sleeveless shirt to Harlem Hospital.

Doctors delivered antibiotics through an intravenous solution injected into her foot and waited. At some points, Carlina’s parents may have gone home to rest.

Later, people would recall a heavy-set woman walking the halls in a smock and the white clothes of a nurse for weeks or even months. When questioned by staff members, the woman told different stories: that she was a nurse on the fourth floor, or that she was visiting a family on the 17th. She even gave a tissue to Carlina’s mother while consoling her over her sick child.

That woman