TEEN FACES FELONY KIDNAPPING CHARGES AFTER SHE TAKES HER SISTER'S BABY!

The troubled teen who abducted her infant niece in the Bronx was slapped with felony kidnapping charges yesterday - but her family said she has been forgiven.
Lisa Keitt, 13, was ordered held by a Bronx Family Court judge after a preliminary hearing that revealed a portrait of a distressed young girl trapped between a drug-addled mother and the social welfare system.

Keitt bolted from the Queens youth home where she had been living Tuesday, and showed up at her sister's Soundview home with two pals in tow.

While her sister and her sister's husband were elsewhere in the home, Keitt and her friends grabbed 21-month-old Giavonna Vizard and vanished for nearly 10 hours.

Little Giavonna was found in Brooklyn, where she was with one of Keitt's pals, Shawnice Reese, 16, NYPD Detective Steven Alejandro said yesterday. It was unclear how cops tracked down the curly-haired infant, who was unharmed.

Keitt, Reese and Jenny Dominique, 16, have been charged with second-degree kidnapping and other crimes. Keitt is being charged as a minor, but Judge George Silver said she's in hot water.

"The court is very concerned about the seriousness of the allegations," Silver remarked as he sent Keitt to an undisclosed juvenile detention facility. She is due back in court next Wednesday.

Keitt, a seventh-grader who last attended school in October, was transferred to the custody of her stepfather in 2002 due to her mother's substance-abuse problems, said Andrea Simmons, a court liaison officer with the Probation Department.

She was returned to her mother's custody in 2007, leading to several attempts at running away.

Keitt's mother told the Daily News her daughter's actions were "a cry for help."

"She's being rebellious," said Lisa Federico, 41. "We forgive her. We all forgive her - even her sister. We're all asking for leniency, but we want help for her."