Kamiyah Mobley was abducted from a Jacksonville,
Fla., hospital nearly two decades ago from her birth parents and raised in
South Carolina under the name Alexis Manigo. Authorities closed the case after
reconnecting Mobley’s birth parents with the 18-year-old, but she was visibly
torn apart at the arrest of the woman she knew as “Momma.”
The bizarre case began when Gloria Williams, now
51, had a miscarriage in South Carolina and traveled to a Jacksonville
facility, pretending to be a nurse caring for Shanara Mobley’s baby girl, who
was just eight hours old.
The younger Mobley was informed on Friday, Jan.
13, by Jacksonville authorities that Williams was not her mother and spoke to
her birth parents via a FaceTime video chat. Craig Aiken and Ms. Mobley will
travel Saturday to see their daughter for the first time since her birth.
However, Kamiyah Mobley’s emotional ties to
Williams were on display at the Colleton County jail in Walterboro, S.C. In the
din of the media throng, Mobley can be heard crying out for Williams and
telling her that she loves her. Williams blew Mobley a kiss from behind bars
while the teen grabbed for her through the bars
Mobley took to Facebook to defend Williams,
saying she was provided with a good life and that “my mother [Williams] is no
felon.”
Williams bore two biological children after
kidnapping Mobley, and the children were all raised together as siblings.
Williams will be extradited from South Carolina to Florida in the coming weeks
to face charges for her crime.
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