A woman who pleaded guilty to kidnapping
a baby from a hospital just hours after she
was born has been sentenced to 18 years
in jail.
Gloria Williams
A woman who pleaded guilty to kidnapping a baby
from a hospital just hours after she was born has
been sentenced to 18 years in jail. Gloria Williams
posed as a nurse and stole Kamiyah Mobley from
a Jacksonville hospital, Florida back in July 1998.
She changed the girl’s name to Alexis Manigo,
moved to South Carolina and raised her as her
own.
Mirror Online previously reported that Kamiyah had
forgiven the woman who raised her and begged
the court for leniency.And the trial was given
heartbreaking evidence from her real mother as
she described the emotional torment of having her
child taken away from her.
Shanara Mobley told the court she thought about
suicide “every day”, said she still feels the loss
deeply, which worsened after watching her
daughter refer to her kidnapper Gloria Williams as
“mom”.
She told the court: “I always thought about my
baby every day, every day, every day. I would
catch myself in my car crying, in bed crying,
taking a bath crying, doing something with her
siblings and crying.
“It doesn’t heal now, I am still hurting. When
you’re reaching out to my child – ‘I am your
mother Kamiyah. I am your mother!’”
Ms Mobley has called for Williams to face the
death penalty.Williams, who was arrested in 2017,
entered guilty pleas to charges of felony
kidnapping and interference earlier this year as
part of a plea deal with prosecutors.
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