LIVING WITH A KIDNAPPER FOR 23 YEARS

Imagine living with your family for 23 years later to realize that person you call your mother is not your real mother but she is a kidnapper!!!.

This incidence happened to a lady in New york, Netty holds no long-term grudge against the woman who posed as her mother – and even says she would not want to change what happened in her life. Growing up in a strict but happy family with her younger brother, Netty Nance always looked to her mum for approval.

 She learned dance steps with her cousins, collapsing into fits of giggles when they missed a move, but proudly showing off the finished routines to their families and basking in the applause. A smile and a nod of appreciation from Ann, her strong and determined mother, meant the world to Netty, now 26.

This kind of memory – dancing, laughter, family get-togethers – that she likes to recall from her childhood. Even though it was all based on a lie and a terrible crime. Ann was not her mother but her kidnapper. Posing as a hospital nurse for several weeks, she snatched a 19-day-old baby from her cot then disappeared.

 She raised the child as her own for an incredible 23 years before detective work by Netty herself finally uncovered the truth.

Now she has been reunited with her birth parents and Ann is serving a 12-year prison term for the kidnap. But Netty holds no long-term grudge against the woman who posed as her mother for so long – and even says she would not want to change what happened in her life.

“I’m not mad at Ann any more,” she says. “I was, but only because she hid something from me for so long. "But I can appreciate what she did for me because, without her, I wouldn’t be as strong-minded and with the attitude to go out there and get what I want.”
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