Woman begs for mercy for 'mother' who stole her as a newborn and raised her as her own
dailystar.co.ukkidnapped her as a newborn has pleaded for the kidnapper to be released from jail.Gloria Williams went 19 years undiscovered after snatching a baby just hours old from hospital and raising her as her own child.
After only a few years into Williams' 18-year prison sentence, the now grown-up baby Alexis Kelli Manigo is asking for "mercy" as her kidnapper did such a good job raising her.
Formerly named Kamiyah Mobley, Alexis vanished from a hospital in Jacksonville, Florida in 1998, only hours after 16-year-old Shanara Mobley gave birth to her.Williams pretended to be a nurse at UF Health Jacksonville —previously University Medical Centre — and took little Kamiyah home to South Carolina.Biological mother Shanara finally got answers nearly two decades later in 2017, thanks to America's National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children.Registered in the South Carolina city of Walterboro was a woman whose date of birth matched missing Kamiyah's but had a different name and documents.
A DNA test revealed Alexis was in fact Kamiyah Mobley, which led to the imprisonment of Williams for 18 years. Alexis, now 23, has since met her birth parents and remains in touch with them but has launched an appeal to slash her "mother's" jail time.
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