6 years ago: Kamiyah Mobley reunited with her parents
It’s been six years since Kamiyah Mobley was reunited with her parents.
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.
PHOTOS: Who’s who in the Kamiyah Mobley kidnapping case
Kamiyah Mobley/Alexis Manigo. Kamiyah was kidnapped as a newborn in Jacksonville in July 1998 and lived her life as "Alexis" in South Carolina.
Gloria Williams. Williams is a South Carolina woman who took Kamiyah from a Jacksonville hospital room in 1998. She pled guilty to the kidnapping. She has been jailed for the last 17 months.
Shanara Mobley. Shanara was only 16 years old when she gave birth to Kamiyah. She screamed "I am your mother, Kamiyah!" in court during Gloria Williams' most recent court appearance.
Craig Aiken. Aiken is Kamiyah's biological father. He was in jail when Kamiyah was born. He said that guards told him, "Good news, your child, Kamiyah, was born. The bad news, she was kidnapped."
Velma Aiken. Craig's mother. News crews in Jacksonville captured her jubilation the day JSO announced Kamiyah had been found.
Iyanla Vanzant. In 2018, Kamiyah appeared on her show "Fix My Life." Her on-screen confrontations with Kamiyah were featured on the show.
More than 2,500 tips were given to officials that led to the arrest of then-51-year-old Gloria Williams.
Pretending to be a nurse, Williams kidnapped Kamiyah just hours after the little girl’s birth at University Hospital, which is now known as UF Health Jacksonville.
The only picture of Kamiyah was a composite because she was abducted just hours after being born. Police were able to compile a few sketches of Williams.
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.
On Jan. 13, 2017, police tracked down Kamiyah, who was going under the name Alexis Manigo, in Walterboro, South Carolina.
Police in Walterboro matched up the birthday of the missing girl with a different name and fraudulent documents. DNA tests confirmed that the girl was the missing newborn.
The fake birth certificate listed that Kamiyah was born at Trident Medical Center in Charleston.
Kamiyah Mobley Fake Birth C... by ActionNewsJax
Kamiyah was reunited with her mother and father, Shanara Mobley and Craig Aiken, just a day after being found.
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. The sentences run concurrently and Williams received credit for 511 days of time served.
In 2019, Kamiyah’s father Craig Aiken said that Kamiyah was moving with him in Jacksonville.
The story got national coverage and was made into a Lifetime movie, “Stolen by My Mother: The Kamiyah Mobley Story.” The family told Action News Jax that they did not have a big part in helping with the film. The movie premiered in January 2020.
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