WEEKLY GROSS-OUT: Baby snatching

Ann Pettway, a woman who snatched a newborn baby from a New York City hospital more than two decades ago and raised her as her own, will be sentenced today at 2:30pm (Eastern Daylight Time). Pettway, who pleaded guilty to a kidnapping charge in February, will learn her fate from a Manhattan federal court judge. During her February court appearance, she offered details of the 1987 kidnapping. She said she took a train from her Connecticut home to Harlem Hospital, where she scooped up 3-week-old Carlina White, who had been brought to the emergency room by her parents. Snatching babies is just wrong. Even if you can't get pregnant, even if you want revenge against the child's parents for something they did to you several years ago, even if you believe you will be a better parent than the child's birth parents, it is still kidnapping and no parent should ever have to suffer this misfortune. But at least Carlina eventually found, and got to spend time with, her real mother.