So she left and went back to her old ways. The sentences run concurrently and Williams received credit for 511 days of time served. Police were able to compile a few sketches of Williams. According to Lowery, NCMECs artist traveled to Jacksonville to create a composite drawing. Its been over a year since Kamiyah Mobley, who was kidnapped as a newborn, was found alive and well, living happily with the woman who kidnapped her. Until she was 16 years old, Alexis Manigo led a normal life. Your email address will not be published. I feel like Im being robbed all over again every time she reaches out to my daughter, she added. An FBI agent who had been monitoring police frequencies arrived on the scene. An eight-hour-old baby is going to fit in just about any small bag, he continues. The babys father, Craig Aiken, was in jail on a drug charge. The sentencing "closes a painful chapter for all involved," Mobley's attorney, Justin Bamberg, said in a statement. Every day people got to stay around me all day, every day to watch me. If [the police] would have spent more time looking for the baby and less time harassing us, something would have come of it, Aiken told reporters. Most of the information I know about Gloria is from Kamiyah, and its very little because we dont really talk about her, he said. Still, Mobley said, she feels like the community still faults her, believing she played a part in order to get money from the hospital. Mobley is around 5 feet 4 inches tall. It made her happy. And though Kamiyah Mobley and her birth mother havent made any recent news, they appear to have slowly reconciled over the years. When he and his lady friend were asked by a doctor to step out into the hallway while Mobley was given an epidural, they left the hospital. On January 12, 2017, DNA tests confirmed that Alexis Manigo is, in fact, Kamiyah Mobley, a baby who was taken from her mothers arms by a stranger posing as a nurse at what was then University Medical Center in Jacksonville. The warrant further attests that Williams admitted to a friend that she had abducted Alexis from a hospital three hours away in Jacksonville, Florida, when the baby was only eight hours old. In 2018, she asked the court for leniency, CNN notes. Lowery scoffs at the idea that Williams years spent caring for Alexis diminishes the severity of her crime. Kamiyah Mobley is an American woman who was abducted from a Florida hospital on July 10, 1998, when she was only eight hours old. There was no social mediano Twitter, Facebook or Amber Alerts to inform the publicjust TV, radio, print media and a fledgling Internet. Currently, mother and daughter are not on speaking terms. I'm almost like a big aunt: worried how she is going to handle all of this," the executive producer of Stolen by my Mother added shortly afterward. FacebookKamiyah Mobley with her biological parents. This past May she received slippers and lotion from her children living in her home. "Kamiyah is now processing what it means for the woman shes known as [her] mother to receive an 18-year prison sentence," he said. Shes not apart of my life. If we see a child leave a maternity ward in someones arms, we know theres a problem.. Another cake. 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. The teen continues to call Williams behind bars, saving the number of the Duval County Jail in Jacksonville, Fla., in her phone under Mommy, the Daily Mail notes. At the same time, she maintained relationships with the people shed known as her older brothers and grandparents in South Carolina, and also with Williams. There is no baby-footprint data base, Shoenfeld says. It was one of the happiest days of my life, Shanara told USA Today of learning about Mobleys recovery and Gloria Williams arrest. 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. She was born 10 July 1998, in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. Im not saying that at all, but it would have been a different life. On July 10, 1998, Schoenfeld had just reported for his 4 PM shift as supervisor for the JSOs homicide division, which investigates stranger abductions. I chose to do right: to have a beautiful baby.. That was about a six- to seven-hour job right there, Schoenfeld says. There are monitors placed on children now in many facilities. When Williams abducted Kamiyah, she acted alone. Mobley went back to her uncles house, but the bassinet, bottles and clothing she had in her room for her daughter haunted her. I have to start doing things where I dont hurt no more.. Ever year, on Mobleys birthday, Shanara had started a tradition of buying a cake and putting it in the freezer just in case Kamiyah showed up. Another wish. Published on January 18, 2017 12:47 PM. Shop sales in every category.Uh-oh, overstock: Wayfair put their surplus on sale for up to 50% off. Harms was assigned the case to help Mobley understand the court process and to have a voice. At 3 p.m., the woman said she had to take the baby to get checked for a fever. Help me to forgive you. 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. The filing also included a letter from Mobley writing in support of Williams, who she called mom. The young adult came forward to defend Williams on many occasions, insisting that she raised her with everything she needed. But at around 3 p.m., she told the 16-year-old that she had to take the baby out of the room to check her temperature. Click here to take a moment and familiarize yourself with our Community Guidelines. The pair argued, and Shanara cut the visit short and drove home. That image, along with the sketch of Kamiyahs abductor, hit the airwaves, with only the following descriptors of her abductor: a black woman, about 5 feet 5 inches, 150-160 pounds, likely wearing a wig. Several news accounts describe Alexiss anguished comments as her alleged abductor was arrested and subsequently taken to the Colleton County jail: I love you, Mom, she said. Viewers anticipated her to speak out against her difficult upbringing, voice negative opinions about Williams, or express how much she enjoyed spending time with her real family. Her name was Gloria Williams, and though she presented herself as a nurse, the truth was much more complicated. Offers may be subject to change without notice. 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. ABC News' Doug Lantz, Julia Jacobo, Rachel Katz and Amanda Maile contributed to this report. She still calls her Mommy. Kamiyah has three siblings from her biological mother in Florida. However, as a new Instagram post by her biological father, Craig Aiken, reveals, she moved to Jacksonville on Dec. 7, 2019. The no-contact order wasnt pursued again in court. Kamiyah, at age of 19, had an explosive confrontation with host Iyanla Vanzant. 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. On Jan. 13, 2017, police tracked down Kamiyah, who was going under the name Alexis Manigo, in Walterboro, South Carolina. She didnt want to lose her mother. The pair argued, and Shanara cut the visit short and drove home. It changed all of us. She can reach out to my daughter every daymy sentence wont stop until shes dead., The last time Kamiyah and Shanara spoke was the night before Mothers Day. And who knows about next year or the year after that, because only one of Mobleys wishes came true. Its like a tug of war between us. None of us can imagine that level of pain, he says. The way that children are transported on maternity wards is different. After reading about Kamiyah Mobley, look through these mysterious disappearances that remain puzzling to this day. Her life at the time was half circumstance and half the result of choices she made as a teenager, she said. Three days later, Alexiss biological parents, Shanara Mobley and Craig Aiken, would make the three-hour drive from Jacksonville to the Walterboro Police Department to meet their daughter. Im your mother.. She was very open to all my friends I brought through that door, Mobley later said. Police chased down 2,000 leads during the first year alone. Alexis would soon learn that both her birth certificate and Social Security card, used to enroll her in school, were fakes. A staff writer for All That's Interesting, Kaleena Fraga has also had her work featured in The Washington Post and Gastro Obscura, and she published a book on the Seattle food scene for the Eat Like A Local series. Kamiyah was kidnapped as a newborn in Jacksonville in July 1998 and lived her life as "Alexis" in South Carolina. Her salary is under review. Because [Kamiyah] came back, this has made a mockery of my life. Detective Sergeant Don Shoenfeld, who retired from the Jacksonville Sheriffs Office in 2010, remembers numerous details from the day the eight-hour-old newborn was snatched by a stranger dressed in nurses scrubs. Kamiyah wore a floral blue smock with green scrub pants. Its time for trying on prom dresses, riding in cars with friends, dreaming of college and that inevitable rite of passage to becoming an adult: filling out job applications. While he would not speak specifically about the tips the organization received, he credits the unnamed individuals who called them in. According to USA Today, Shanara had had a tough life, and she saw her new baby as a chance to get things right. National Center For Missing And Exploited Children. "Nobody spared my feelings for 18 years so why should I spare hers. I just want to know about my daughter. Shes in jail. When she went to school, she went to Eugene Butler Middle. New court documents that First Coast News uncovered show that Williams filed a motion asking the judge to cut her sentence in half to 9 years. At age 17, most girls just want to have fun. After her abductors arrest, the teen said she hoped Williams' sentence would not be a long one. As long as she can call her and go see [Williams], thats her momma, Mobley told USA Today in 2018, even saying that she wished Kamiyah had never been found. She ate well. This frustration has led the older Mobley to issue a heart-wrenching ultimatum to her 19-year-old daughter. As for Williams, Shanarawho readily acknowledges that she hates the kidnapperis hoping that the woman will let her daughter go. Disappointed. Then, according to AETV, Mobley found out that she didnt have a Social Security number, which she needed to get a job or drive a car. There is no hearing date set in the case. The trail grew cold for nearly 18 years, but investigators never gave up on finding Kamiyah Mobley. WebIn one of her most explosive episodes, Iyanla works with Kamiyah Mobley, a 19-year-old who was kidnapped at birth and raised by her kidnapper. 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. Kamiyah Mobley/Alexis Manigo. He was serving a sentence on an unrelated charge at the time of the sex crimes arrest, and was rearrested in the correctional facility. No longer are you going to pick up that baby and leave that ward, he says. Williams was sentenced to 18 years in prison for the first charge of kidnapping and five years for the second charge of interfering with custody. She shouldnt have never left outta my arms from the beginning, the distraught young mother cried. A Maryland Dumping Site Was Actually A Black Cemetery. For hours, the two women talked. And if thats taking me to talk to the enemy, thats what I would do to build a relationship with my daughter, Aiken said. Needless to say, the baby wasnt found.. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. The woman who pleaded guilty to kidnapping a baby from a Florida hospital hours after she was born was sentenced Friday to 18 years in prison. The kidnapper spent approximately five of those hours befriending Mobley. Kamiyah Mobley kidnapping case: Teen tells Gloria Williams 'I love you' in jailhouse letters Authorities released a series of images of evidence in the Kamiyah Mobley case in 2018. When Mobley was 16, however, she discovered that that her mother had a dark secret. Gloria was looking for a child she could raise as her own, Lowery says. 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