ET on Showtime. Velma Aiken, Kamiyahs paternal grandmother, would blame herself for the next 18 years, constantly regretting not acting on the strange feeling she got when she saw that the nurse carrying baby Kamiyah was also carrying a purse. Law enforcement enlisted help from the media, and Kamiyahs kidnapping gripped the city. According to the Post and Courier, she screamed at Williams to leave her family alone at one point and told the judge she wanted the death penalty for her daughters kidnapper. Though her baby was found and the abductor imprisoned, Shanara Mobley says, 'I dont have a relationship with my child', By Eileen Kelley | The Florida Times-Union. In 1998, a newborn was stolen from a maternity ward at a Downtown hospital just hours after her birth. All Rights Reserved. There is no hearing date set in the case. Gloria Williams posed as a nurse and stole Kamiyah Mobley from a Jacksonville hospital in July 1998 before giving the child a different name, Alexis Manigo, and raising her as her own in South Carolina. So many days so many days so many days I just wanted to pick that child up and say, Come on, lets get in this car and go. I just couldnt. Copyright 2023 News4JAX.com is managed by Graham Digital and published by Graham Media Group, a division of Graham Holdings. And she expected she would want to gather at times of celebration. Another cake. Williams had abducted her as a baby and her real name was Kamiyah Mobley. Its a feeling that you cant explain; its hard to put it in words right now. The Kamiyah Mobley Tale is based on a true tale in which a tiny girl named Kamiyah Mobley was taken from a Florida hospital when she was only eight hours old on July 10, 1998. The exact details of the heinous crime were found out in January 2017, just after the 19-year-old Kamiyah graduated from high school. Now, to Mobley, it feels as if Williams and her own daughter are conspiring against her and making a mockery of her life. Aerial patrols were already hovering around the sprawling medical center on 8th Street, now UF Health Jacksonville. Then maybe, just maybe, she and her daughter will have a relationship. Police had to rely on composite drawings of the baby. This is not our life., Woman who kidnapped Jacksonville newborn Kamiyah Mobley in 1998 wont have sentence reduced, Gloria Williams sentencing hearing: Kamiyah Mobleys mom testifies, says I am your mother Kamiyah, Teen abducted from Jacksonville hospital at birth reunited with parents in South Carolina Teen abducted from Jacksonville hospital at birth reunited with parents. I still do call her Mom, Kamiyah told ABC News. 1998 missing Jacksonville newborn found in South Carolina; 51-year-old woman arrested, READ: Kamiyah Mobleys fake birth certificate, Teen abducted from Jacksonville hospital at birth reunited with parents, Kamiyah Mobleys dad on Lifetime movie about daughters kidnapping: This is not us. But it wasnt exactly the happy reunion shed always imagined. "I need her away, far away, where she cannot contact my baby, where my baby cannot get to her, she said. Im serious. By 13, she was pretty much on her own. Also read about Matt Zaffino. Kamiyah was abducted eight hours after birth by a woman dressed in hospital garb who entered the room, assisted and conversed with the mother, and then walked out of the room with Kamiyah in her arms. I was. During the show was hosted by an inspirational speaker, lawyer, New Thought spiritual teacher, author, life coach, Iyanla Vanzant. Another birthday. The dispatcher said a baby had been taken, a newborn, and patrol had the hospital in lockdown, Shoenfeld recalls. Kamiyah openly acknowledges that she still loves her imposter mom, and speaks to the woman regularly, sending her biological mother into a despair that has created a gaping chasm between them. She exercised. This time round, now youve got the legal system helping her to steal her all over again. I just didnt want to be here, she said. Mobleys relationship with her biological mother, Shanara Mobley had been strained in part due to Kamiyahs continued relationship with her kidnapper, Gloria Williams.Williams is now serving an 18-year prison sentence for stealing baby Kamiyah. It fits with the behaviors weve seen with these abductors They present themselves as a healthcare worker or a nurse. An eight-hour-old baby is going to fit in just about any small bag, he continues. In February 2018, Williams pleaded guilty to kidnapping and interfering with state custody. Alexis would soon learn that both her birth certificate and Social Security card, used to enroll her in school, were fakes. She has since had three more children. Robert Lowery is Vice President for Missing Children at NCMEC. I mean, I feel nothing. Gloria Williams posed as a nurse and stole Kamiyah Mobley from a Jacksonville hospital in July 1998 before giving the child a different name, Alexis Manigo, and raising her as her own in South Carolina. Aiken says hes never had a conversation with his daughters kidnapper. Kamiyah Mobley/Alexis Manigo. But Shanara, who has four other children besides Kamiyah, hasnt given up on making a connection with her firstborn. Kamiyah went missing at 3 PM, court documents say. She said she hopes Williams dies in jail. Come on now, if I thought it was going to be this hard, I could have got an abortion. She volunteered for veterans groups, and for Habitat for Humanity, which built her Walterboro home. Those facilities are much more difficult to get into, because of what Gloria did. Kamiyah was reunited with her mother and father, Shanara Mobley and Craig Aiken, just a day after being found. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Craig Aiken, Kamiyah Mobleys father, says his daughter is doing well and living in Jacksonville with her mother. She ate well. So, shes not a threat to me Shes nothing to me.. And it was not her. Another year without her daughter. News accounts from 1998 report that the kidnapper escaped with the baby on the pretense of taking her to the hospital nursery for routine tests, to test for fever, or to administer baby vaccines. Did she always have this much fun? Aiken said. In that time the kidnapper, Gloria Williams, was tried and recently sentenced to 18 years in prison, and Kamiyah was reunited with her biological family. Since then had three other children. I dont feel that she should still be able to contact Kamiyah, and I dont feel that her family should be able to contact my child, she said. Kamiyah Mobley and her kidnapper, Gloria Williams, who raised her as her own child. Distractify is a registered trademark. As Shanara Mobley struggled to put her life back together following Mobleys kidnapping, everything in Gloria Williamss life seemed to fall into place. She had nightmares. She currently lives with her mother, Shanara Mobley, her father, Craig, and their extended family. Its hard to deal with this here right now.. 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I ask for the courts grace and mercy, as I need my mother home.. In March 2022, she even wrote a letter asking for Williams early release. Kamaiyah Mobley, now 22 years old, first learned about her abduction in 2017. first learned about her abduction in 2017. a judge sentenced Williams to 18 years in prison. Nobody acknowledges my pain. Please, please, bring me my baby, Shanara Mobley pleaded on WJXT-TV4 shortly after Kamiyah was taken. Kamiyah traveled to Florida to meet her biological mother, father and five younger siblings, and began to build relationships with them. It was one of the most promising leads in the case. Kamiyah had been raised under the name Alexis Manigo. The Tragic Story Of Kamiyah Mobley, The Girl Who Was Abducted As A Baby And Raised By Her Kidnapper. In the end, the judge found Williams guilty and sentenced her to 18 years in prison. Kamiyah, at age of 19, had an explosive confrontation with host Iyanla Vanzant. The abducted child was happy, she learned. Kamiyah disappeared from the public eye shortly afterward. The kidnapper, according to news reports, was dressed in a blue floral smock and green scrub pants. When interacting with the family, she impersonated a nurse. At 3 p.m., the woman said she had to take the baby to get checked for a fever. "She has been failed by so many," said Carl Harms, a victims' advocate with the Office of the State Attorney for the Fourth Judicial Circuit. Gloria Williams the well-educated, God-fearing woman who provided care to veterans, her elderly parents and the abducted girl admitted in a Duval County court to abducting Kamiyah after she had a miscarriage in 1998. However, as a new Instagram post by her biological father, Craig Aiken, reveals, she moved to Jacksonville on Dec. 7, 2019. They write letters. Im not saying theres not a time that we can get closer, but I really should not have to compete with that woman, she explained. Williams had miscarried a child a week before, which is thought to be Kamiyahs motivation for the kidnapping. Shes blocked now because I dont want to argue with her. And thats not all. She forever changed the way we view hospitals.. No card. Obviously we were let down. Alexis Manigo was really Kamiyah Mobley. Mobley was raised in South Carolina under the name Alexis Manigo. It was. Mobley was 15 when she learned she was pregnant, the result of carrying on with a man seven years older, a man whose mother lived across the street from an uncles house where she was staying. ", Falcon 9 launches Crew-6 from Cape Canaveral, Almost a dozen people hospitalized after fire onboard Spirit flight that diverted to Jacksonville, Local Weather: The heat holds as windy becomes the weather word Friday, 'I need my mother home': Kamiyah Mobley tells judge she supports early release for her mother, kidnapper, Kamiyah Mobley's father releases new movie trailer, crowdfunding to complete his documentary "Share the Truth"- Craig Aiken, Keystone Heights man sentenced to 55 years in prison for murder of Jordan Cooper. Authorities found Williams, and DNA tests proved the girl she called Alexis Manigo was, in fact, Kamiyah Mobley. Theres nothing she can stop me from doing with my daughter. Its good to know that the case is closed. She was molested at age 9, and it continued for two years. Coverage that informs. Her feelings toward Gloria arent something I would find surprising, says the NCMECs Lowery. I had everything I needed, wanted. Williams, for her part, expressed regret for what she had done. It stars Rayven Ferrell as Mobley, Niecy Nash as Gloria Williams, alongside TaRhonda Jones as Shanara Mobley. Doctors wanted to induce labor on June 30, 1998, and told the teenager to go to the hospital. We felt like the best opportunity we would have to see this person [the abductor] was the camera that was on the nursery window. I know 18 years might sound like a long time for some people but imagine me going through this for right here for 18 years. Mobleys mother lived in Central Florida. "I've spent a lot of time around her, and I always feel better after I've been around her. More than 2,500 tips were given to officials that led to the arrest of then-51-year-old Gloria Williams. Stolen by my Mother will premiere on Jan. 18, 2020 at 8 a.m. Alexis, whose interview appeared on Good Morning America, told an ABC News reporter that Gloria Williams would always be Mom. She also said that she owed her biological parents a meeting, and was very interested in getting to know them. But Manigo's relationship with Mobley is tenuous at best. What is a good parent kidnapper? This is a battle that nobody is going to win.". "However, she understands Gloria had to be held accountable for her actions. She tried to kill herself. She was raised by her abductor, Gloria Williams, who had two other children from her marriage with Wernoskie Williams. Mobley sold the rights to the monthly payouts in 2009 in exchange for a lump sum which, court documents say, would be used to help lower her mortgage. Then, she walked into Shanaras room and found her with her infant daughter. Investigations that lead to change. It made her happy. Mobley filled her room at her uncles house with new and used baby clothes and a stark white bassinet gifts from a church as a well as a counselor at the juvenile program. Its unclear how or whether that sum has been disbursed. Nobody is leaving me unattended, she said. His mother taught government and economics, and his father, as a football coach, taught world history and US history when he was younger. Just let my baby go. Indeed, Kamiyah Mobley has stuck by Williamss side. 'Abducted in Plain Sight' Seems Too Horrible to Be True But It Is, These Memes Perfectly Capture the Insanity of 'Abducted in Plain Sight', Where the Cleveland Abduction Survivors Are Today. She had been pregnant before, when she was 14, but miscarried. But always, there was a cake with candles and shed make a wish or two. Im about to start calling her Alexis so I wont be hurt. Her attorney told the Washington Post that Williams always kept Alexiss doctors appointments and provided her with the braces she wears today. Kamiyah Mobley, after all, saw Gloria Williams as her mother. The older Mobley still feels betrayed. She was in an abusive relationship, shed recently lost custody of her two sons, and, worst of all, shed suffered from a miscarriage that she kept from her loved ones. In January 2017, after the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received two tips, investigators with the Jacksonville Sheriffs Office found Kamiyah Mobley living in rural South Carolina. Each July 10, Shanara Mobley cut a slice of cake for herself and then cut a piece for her missing child, Kamiyah. She wanted her daughter to understand something: Im still hurting. This frustration has led the older Mobley to issue a heart-wrenching ultimatum to her 19-year-old daughter. Though these kinds of kidnappings are rare, he has seen a handful of similar long-term abduction cases. Their loved one, husband, or significant other is aware that a child is expected. There should be no safer place than a hospital maternity ward, Lowery says. I think she blames me that this woman is sitting in jail. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Over the past two years, Craig Aiken says hes watched his daughter grow from a teenager into an adult. Robin's new movie will be the first to offer a thorough exploration of the kidnapping and the 18 years Kamiyah spent at the Williams' household. The profile developed by the NCMEC, based on an analysis of 292 cases occurring over a span of 31 years, says the typical baby stealer operates closer to home, in her own community. Jobs meant shelter and money. Robin Roberts performs duties as the executive producer. If you need help with WJXTs or WCWJ's FCC public inspection file, call (904) 393-9801. The baby was taken hours later by Gloria Williams, a woman posing as a nurse. She has not received any major honors yet but based on her work, she may receive nominations in the future. She pled not guilty on April 5. The teen also continues to live in Williams home in South Carolina, saying that she looks forward to the day Wiliams is released. In a case that made national headlines, Gloria Williams pleaded guilty in 2018 to the abduction of Kamiyah Mobley, now 23, and was sentenced to 18 years in prison. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Its been six years since Kamiyah Mobley was reunited with her parents. DNA tests confirmed that the girl was the missing newborn. Shes not any more apart of my life. But no one would know what happened to her for 18 years. According to the NCMEC, abductors often become familiar with doctors offices and hospital maternity wards, learning hospital layouts and using fire exit stairwells to escape with their victims. The 52-year-old was sentenced last month to 18 years in prison for kidnapping and interference of custody. According to a WTLV-TV 12 report from January, the younger Mobley and her attorneys were paid $1.2 million in 2000, with an additional $725,000 put into an annuity or structured settlement, so that she could receive monthly payments for life. At this writing, Williams is charged with kidnapping and custodial interference and is awaiting trial as an inmate in the Duval County jail. I have never met a good kidnapper. If we see a child leave a maternity ward in someones arms, we know theres a problem.. Yes, she does, the teen added. She expected her daughter would return. I didnt know what you went through.. What's more, Kamiyah has publicly criticized the unfair treatment Williams received, stating that the 18-year-long sentence was unnecessary. He was serving a sentence on an unrelated charge at the time of the sex crimes arrest, and was rearrested in the correctional facility. ), Arika Williams, the woman whom Alexis was raised to believe was her half-sister, confirmed these witness reports to People magazine. Accompanied by her attorney, Justin Bamberg, Alexis was gracious but guarded in responding to questions about how her life might have differed, if not for the, Jacksonville Magazines Signature Event Series, How Floridas agricultural heartland is fighting for survivors, A look backand forwardfrom Hurricane Irma, The State of Medical Marijuana in Florida. We were going to be this big, happy family, she said. For her part, Shanara described her elation at giving birth, and deep grief at having her baby stolen away from her. Back in Florida, Shanara was ecstatic. According to Schoenfeld, Connecticut authorities ended up handing a DNA sample from that baby to an airline pilot, and then I had a detective standing at the gate when he arrived to take that sample straight to the FDLE. Click here to take a moment and familiarize yourself with our Community Guidelines. It wasnt then what it is now. Mobley also learned that when police found her daughter and Williams in Walterboro, S.C., last year, her daughter demanded police return with a search warrant to obtain DNA for testing. Mobley sat hunched over much of the time and cried. Schoenfeld confirms those reports. Or, learn how Natascha Kampusch survived eight years in her kidnappers cellar. The child was left on her own to have a child, and 8-pound Kamiyah was born the next morning. Oh man, I was ready to go. However, as a new Instagram post by her biological father, Craig Aiken, reveals, she moved to Jacksonville on Dec. 7, 2019. God always gives me what my heart desires, Mobley said. On July 10, 1998, Kamiyah Teresiah Tasha Mobley was taken from a Florida hospital at the age of eight hours. Craig Aiken, Kamiyahs father, has been more vocal about it, however. However, at the end of the day, I love my mother and I wholeheartedly support her! Kamiyah was reunited with her mother and father, Shanara Mobley and Craig Aiken, just a day after being found. She shouldnt have never left outta my arms from the beginning, the distraught young mother cried. The children in her home shower her with love and attention on Mothers Day. She didn't send one to Mobley. Gloria Bolden Williams was arrested the next day in Walterboro, South Carolina. I will tell you what Gloria did changed hospital facilities forever. Its been fun for me and the learning process, trying to get to know my daughter. While Shoenfeld declined to talk about the JSOs investigation of the Mobley family, he did have words for baby Kamiyah, now 18-year-old Alexis. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Copyright 2023 Celebs Info | Powered by Astra WordPress Theme.
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