The feel-good story of kidnap victim Carlina White lasted all of a couple of weeks before financial recriminations drove a wedge between the 23-year-old woman and her birth parents.
After last month’s family reunion, White–who was snatched from a Harlem hospital three weeks after her July 1987 birth–began pressing her parents, Joy White and Carl Tyson, for money the couple received to settle a lawsuit brought against New York City’s Health & Hospitals Corporation (HHC).