The case against Ann Pettway was delayed for two months on Monday, after both the prosecution and defense requested more time to process new documents, the Connecticut Post reports.
Pettway is facing 20 years to life in prison if convicted of kidnapping 3-week-old Carlina White from Harlem Hospital in August 1987. Pettway raised White in Bridgeport under the name of Nejdra Nance and told authorities she received the infant from a drug addict.
White, now 23, discovered her real past last December. With the help of the Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the NYPD, she was able to reunite with her real family from the Bronx.
When news that a DNA test confirmed White's relation to the New York family in mid-January, Pettway fled her North Carolina home. After leading federal and local agents on a pursuit up the Eastern Seaboard, she turned herself in to authorities in Bridgeport several days later.
That day, she allegedly admitted to an FBI agent that she had kidnapped the infant after having suffered several miscarriages because she feared she would never bear a child of her own.
Her attorney, Robert Baum, said on Monday he's trying to track down several witnesses whose names have emerged in the hundreds of pages of documents he's analyzed, the Post reports.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrea Surratt told U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel that she had just received two more boxes of material last week from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
