This composite image provided by the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office in Jacksonville, Fla., shows a photo of Kamiyah Mobley, an infant girl who was kidnapped by a woman, seen in separate sketches provided by police in 1998 during the initial search. Williams had worked at a veterans hospital in Charleston at one time, possibly as a social worker or as a medical records specialist. Gloria Williams stole Kamiyah Mobley from a Jacksonville hospital in July 1998. Mobley continued to have children: Christopher, Chrisanna, Savannah and Journye, who, at 3, is the youngest. 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. That turned out to be used to make the match.. Alexis Manigo was really Kamiyah Mobley. So do you recommend the maximum sentence the court can give?. She was born 10 July 1998, in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. Her abductor was a stranger who waited patiently, even interacted with the babys family prior to kidnapping. Her Social Security number actually belonged to a Virginia man who died in 1983. But much of the time she chose not to go. The exact details of the heinous crime were found out in January 2017, just after the 19-year-old Kamiyah graduated from high school. Looking into a video camera, Mobley had this to say to her daughter: If you want to be Alexis, be Alexis. People saying shes a good lady and all this. The older Mobley still feels betrayed. She tried to kill herself. 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. Now, Lowery says, nurses have specific identification, which is disclosed to new mothers on hospital tours and upon entry into the maternity ward. The fake birth certificate listed that Kamiyah was born at Trident Medical Center in Charleston. Click the links below to view The actress Alexis Manigos Contacts: You may also like to know more about other related Celebrities Bio, Occupation, Family, Relationship, Body measurements, Net worth and more about: Your email address will not be published. She said she hopes Williams dies in jail. But what may have seemed like a fairy-tale ending to a heartbreaking story is apparently not meant to be. God always gives me what my heart desires, Mobley said. Mobley has now blocked her daughter from contacting her by cell phone. She was molested at age 9, and it continued for two years. Gloria Williams stands with her attorneys as she is sentenced by Judge Marianne Aho in the kidnapping of newborn Kamiyah Mobley, June 8, 2018 at the Duval County Courthouse in Jacksonville, Fla. Shanara Mobley, birth mother of Kamiyah Mobley, smiles as she leaves the sentencing of Gloria Williams, June 8, 2018 at the Duval County Courthouse in Jacksonville, Fla. Kamiyah Mobley, who was raised with the name Alexis Kelly Manigo, sits in the courtroom before the sentencing hearing of Gloria Williams, May 3, 2018 at the Duval County Courthouse in Jacksonville, Fla. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. I could have been doing drugs, drinking, all that. The Jacksonville Sheriffs Office followed over 2,000 leads during the next two-and-a-half years in hopes of bringing Kamiyah Mobley home. Was it really a random act? It wasnt then what it is now. Police were able to compile a few sketches of Williams. When I left Jacksonville, I didnt look back. After her abductors arrest, the teen said she hoped Williams' sentence would not be a long one. There is no hearing date set in the case. The sentences run concurrently and Williams received credit for 511 days of time served. 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. For a while, she stood and looked at the babies in the nursery. And it was not her. Everybody was saying I sold the baby, I gave the baby away, she said. By December 2017, the young woman began the transition period, splitting her time between Walterboro, S.C., and Jacksonville, Fla. At the time, she described her relationship with her brothers and sisters as peaceful and harmonious. Still, Mobley said, she feels like the community still faults her, believing she played a part in order to get money from the hospital. Its like a tug of war between us. Kamiyah Mobley Siblings. She said its rare for her to have a relationship with a man that lasts longer than two years. Distractify is a registered trademark. I have to start doing things where I dont hurt no more.. I can see that its my child, but I can also see traits from the kidnapper in her, the mother said. Not even a text message. She was sheltered from very little. Shes blocked now because I dont want to argue with her. Kamiyah Mobley, after all, saw Gloria Williams as her mother. '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. problems. CTRL + SPACE for auto-complete. As Shanara Mobley struggled to put her life back together following Mobleys kidnapping, everything in Gloria Williamss life seemed to fall into place. According to an arrest warrant filed by the Jacksonville Sheriffs Office in January of this year, Alexis told a National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) tipster that shed suspected since 2015 that the woman who raised her, 51-year-old Gloria Bolden Williams, was not her biological mother. If you dont have no kids, she cried, choking back sobs, her voice rising as she wept. "My feelings toward my mother will never change," she emphasized. Kamiyah is working on her bond with Shanara. She bought a house with some of the money but lost it to foreclosure. Once those are lifted, Aiken plans to visit Williams with Mobley at the prison in Brooksville. 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. Just let my baby go. She also understands that her biological parents have the absolute right to view today as a joyous day. There is no other information on her height, weight, or other physical characteristics. We actually talked today. She said her daughter, LaShawnye, who is heading into the 10th grade, argues with people on Facebook in defense of her mother. 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. Offers may be subject to change without notice. We did however get the cord blood, Schoenfeld says. Kamiyah Mobley was just hours old when she was abducted from her mothers hospital room. But Manigo's relationship with Mobley is tenuous at best. No call. Kamiyahs case was one of the centerpieces of our work with healthcare facilities. Investigations that lead to change. Mobley was 16 years old when she gave birth to Kamiyah, on July 10, 1998. Doctors wanted to induce labor on June 30, 1998, and told the teenager to go to the hospital. I was ready to go then. None of us can imagine that level of pain, he says. "I love her [] It was like the regular, stereotypical mother-daughter relationship," Kamiyah told Today in an interview. She left her abusive relationship, regained custody of her sons, remarried, and raised Mobley as her own daughter though now renamed Alexis Manigo. Coverage that informs. Mobleys biological mother Shanara Mobley had three other children. Required fields are marked *. She currently lives with her mother, Shanara Mobley, her father, Craig, and their extended family. Theres nothing she can do thats going to make me stop loving her. She wanted her daughter to understand something: Im still hurting. She has not shared her weight and other body measurements with the public. Im your mother, Kamiyah. She served as youth-group leader for her Methodist church, which she attended every Sunday. When Mobley learned Alexis was alive, on Jan. 13, 2017, she likened the joy to giving birth all over again: It was one of the happiest days of my life.. Nobody is leaving me unattended, she said. Its hard to deal with this here right now.. Im still hurting, Shanara said. Mobley went back to her uncles house, but the bassinet, bottles and clothing she had in her room for her daughter haunted her. Pretending to be a nurse, Williams kidnapped Kamiyah just hours after the little girls birth at University Hospital, which is now known as UF Health Jacksonville. The father said its unclear when hell visit Williams because of COVID-19 restrictions in prisons. 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. It stars Rayven Ferrell as Mobley, Niecy Nash as Gloria Williams, alongside TaRhonda Jones as Shanara Mobley. Im serious. Stories that inspire. Kamiyah has three siblings from her biological mother in Florida. Other abductors have also impersonated healthcare workers. Mobley never gave up hope that her daughter was alive and would be found. 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. This past May she received slippers and lotion from her children living in her home. For nearly two decades, through thousands of unfruitful leads investigated by scores of law enforcement officials, and despite a $250,000 reward offered by University Medical Center, Kamiyah would remain Jacksonvilles stolen child. 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 thekidnapping. Your email address will not be published. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Over the past two years, Craig Aiken says hes watched his daughter grow from a teenager into an adult. That was about a six- to seven-hour job right there, Schoenfeld says. Stolen by my Mother will premiere on Jan. 18, 2020 at 8 a.m. 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. They were part of the investigation that led to Alexiss true identity, Lowery says. I think she blames me that this woman is sitting in jail. 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. Until she was 16 years old, Alexis Manigo led a normal life. He was serving a sentence on an unrelated charge at the time of the sex crimes arrest, and was rearrested in the correctional facility. She has not shared with the public any information about her relationship. Kamiyah Mobley and her kidnapper, Gloria Williams, who raised her as her own child. Its been fun for me and the learning process, trying to get to know my daughter. ), Arika Williams, the woman whom Alexis was raised to believe was her half-sister, confirmed these witness reports to People magazine. The Shoneys manager asked Alexis to provide her Social Security card. I feel like Im being robbed all over again every time she reaches out to my daughter, she added. According to Lowery, NCMECs artist traveled to Jacksonville to create a composite drawing. You couldnt see what you wanted to see. For 16 years, her biological parents Shanara Mobley and Craig Aiken had hoped for her safe return. She shouldnt have never left outta my arms from the beginning, the distraught young mother cried. As local authorities scoured bus terminals and airports, the search would soon rivet the nation. While in a juvenile detention program she met a teen mom with a baby named Kamiyah. Every day people got to stay around me all day, every day to watch me. Gloria Bolden Williams was arrested the next day in Walterboro, South Carolina. In fact, Kamiyah was kidnapped before the hospital even had the chance to test her for strep B, which her mother Shanara had contracted during her pregnancy, or for sickle-cell anemia, for which Shanara is a genetic carrier. We felt like the best opportunity we would have to see this person [the abductor] was the camera that was on the nursery window. In 2018, a judge sentenced Williams to 18 years in prison. 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. WebKamiyah Teresiah Tasha Mobley was abducted from a Florida hospital on July 10, 1998, when she was only eight hours old. Im serious. I dont understand that," said Aiken. Since January 2017, the emotions of the soon-to-be-20-year-old woman with two names Kamiyah Mobley and Alexis Manigo have been playing out like some nonstop tug of war. FacebookKamiyah Mobley with her biological parents. Write CSS OR LESS and hit save. In South Carolina, the infant Mobley was miles from her mother, Shanara, who was in later footage seen sobbing in her hospital bed after Kamiyah was taken. An eight-hour-old baby is going to fit in just about any small bag, he continues. Later, Shanara was interviewed, pleading for her daughters return. Arika Williams confirmed in her People Magazine interview that Gloria Williams miscarriage occurred very late in the pregnancy, and that she had already been given a baby shower. I kidnapped you.. Jobs meant shelter and money. Its going to be painful on both sides.. The first time round, Gloria stole my baby by herself. In a lawsuit filed in October 1998, when Kamiyah was three months old, plaintiff Sheila Mobley said the hospital took 20 minutes to call the police after the baby was deemed missing. Im about to start calling her Alexis so I wont be hurt. In January 2017, she was found alive in Walterboro, South Carolina. Prosecutors acknowledge that there is nothing they can do about Kamiyah and Williams communicating. In February 2018, Williams pleaded guilty to kidnapping and interfering with state custody. I have never met a good kidnapper. However, at the end of the day, I love my mother and I wholeheartedly support her! DNA testing proved that she was not the daughter of Gloria Williams, her abductor. Shortly after police tracked Kamiyah Mobley down, she met her biological parents, Shanara and Craig Aiken, for the first time. And I truly feel it in my heart; I just wish she would not have come back. Kamiyah Mobley/Alexis Manigo. Then maybe, just maybe, she and her daughter will have a relationship. I dont have a relationship with my child," she said. But the relationship between Kamiyah Mobley, her kidnapper, and her birth parents, is anything but simple today. Williams declined to address the media but extends "her appreciation to everyone involved in her defense as well as all of the people who either wrote letters or appeared on her behalf," Williams' attorney, Diana Johnson, said in a statement. Mobley sat hunched over much of the time and cried. 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. Now, to Mobley, it feels as if Williams and her own daughter are conspiring against her and making a mockery of her life. There should be no safer place than a hospital maternity ward, Lowery says. JSO said her suspicions were sparked when she tried to apply for jobs, and she ran into I.D. I dont know what that means. And thats not all. Williams had miscarried a child a week prior to, which is believed to be Kamiyahs motive for the abduction. Its a feeling that you cant explain; its hard to put it in words right now. Investigators say Gloria Williams took Mobley from a hospital in 1998, raising her as her own daughter. 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. Detective Schoenfeld declined to comment about early investigative inquiries into whether Kamiyahs birth family had anything to do with her kidnapping. "I still feel the same way about her," she told CNN in the summer of 2018. I just hope she is able to move on in a positive way in her life. On the day Kamiyah was born and abducted, helicopters swarmed the locked-down hospital complex as dozens of sheriffs officers and FBI agents searched through every corner and closet in every room, on every floor, in every building. Kamiyah was found safe in South Carolina in early 2017 when she was 18 years old, after being kidnapped from a Jacksonville hospital as a newborn in 1998. 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