TV BUZZ: Sherri Shepherd, KeKe Palmer & Aunjanue Ellis Star In Lifetime’s ‘Abducted: The Carlina White Story’

If you are riveted by on-screen depictions of true stories, you just may be in for a treat this weekend. Abducted: The Carlina White Story, starring Aunjanue Ellis (The Help), Keke Palmer (True Jackson, VP), and Emmy® Award winner Sherri Shepherd (30 Rock, The View) airs on Lifetime.

Saturday, Oct. 6 at 8/7 central, the remarkable true story of Carlina White (Palmer), who after being abducted as an infant from a New York hospital, solved her own kidnapping and reunited with her biological parents 23 years later, comes to life with a superb cast.

The case is reported to be the first known infant abduction from a New York hospital.

In August of 1987, new parents Joy White (Shepherd) and Carl Tyson (Roger Cross, 24) took their 19-day old daughter Carlina to Harlem Hospital in New York with a high fever.

Ann Pettway (Ellis), who had suffered a series of miscarriages and was desperate for a child of her own, posed as a hospital nurse and befriended Carlina’s parents, even offering to watch over their daughter.

But shortly after Carlina was admitted, Pettway removed the child’s IV line, placed her in an oversized handbag, and walked out of the hospital with Carlina hidden from view.

Grief-stricken parents Carl Tyson and Joy White pictured in 1987 with an empty crib after their baby, Carlina was abducted by a fake nurse from Harlem Hospital. Photo : EEW Magazine via NY Post

While Joy and Carl desperately searched for their daughter over the years, Pettway was raising Carlina as Nejdra “Netty” Nance in Bridgeport, Connecticut – a mere 45 miles from New York City.

As Carlina grew older she began to suspect Pettway was not her birth mother and launched her own investigation.

A happy Carlina White is united with her birth parents, Carl Tyson and Joy White Photo: EEW Magazine via NY Post

After contacting the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Carlina was reunited with her biological parents in January 2011.

Watch the Abducted: The Carlina White Story trailer below.

For more information about this movie, visit Lifetime.

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Definitely planning to watch!