Carlina White Update: Ann Pettway Turned Herself in to FBI, Due in Court

NEW YORK (CBS/WCBS/AP) After a days-long search, Ann Pettway, the woman suspected of snatching Carlina White from a New York City hospital, turned herself into authorities on Sunday.

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Investigators believe it was 44-year-old Ann Pettway who abducted three-week old Carlina White from Harlem Hospital 23-years ago.

Pettway allegedly gave the child a new name and raised the child as her own in Connecticut.

And that's exactly where Pettway popped up Sunday. After walking into a Bridgeport pawn shop, she turned herself in to FBI officials and was due to face federal kidnapping charges, CBS station WCBS.

Back in 1987, Carlina White's mother recalled a suspicious person posing as a nurse.

Reportedly, Pettway was pregnant around the time Carlina White was abducted, but had lost her baby. Authorities are trying to determine whether she replaced that baby with Carlina White.

While her biological family desperately searched for decades, Carlina White was renamed "Njedra Nance" and raised just 50 miles away in Bridgeport. That's where Pettway surrendered to police on Sunday, reportedly after she was recognized at a pawn shop. She was on probation, following a conviction for attempted embezzlement.

So what could be in store for Pettway?

She is slated to appear in federal court in Manhattan Monday morning to face federal kidnapping charges.

CBS News Legal Analyst Jack Ford said on "The Early Show" Monday the federal charges are serious.

"In the federal scheme of things, kidnapping is one of the top charges you can get," Ford the morning show. "It's a significant crime in the federal scheme of things - a range of 10 years to life in prison."