On Jan. 13, 2017, police tracked down Kamiyah, who was going under the name Alexis Manigo, in Walterboro, South Carolina. Then Miss Gloria just broke down and told her, This is why right here, you cant do this. On July 10, 1998, Schoenfeld had just reported for his 4 PM shift as supervisor for the JSOs homicide division, which investigates stranger abductions. By 13, she was pretty much on her own. The no-contact order wasnt pursued again in court. Kamiyah was abducted eight hours after birth by a woman dressed in hospital garb who entered the room, assisted and conversed with the mother, and then walked out of the room with Kamiyah in her arms. The father says that despite not knowing each other for years, it always feels like Mobley has been part of the family. She said shed like to have another child. The settlement was sizable. When we went to look at the video, you could only watch it in real time. She expected she would want to be part of the family. She tilted her head toward the stairway: Those kids up there love me. Sitting at her large kitchen table, Mobley began to cry. There is no hearing date set in the case. 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. They scoured every building in the hospital complex, including the parking garage. We bump heads so much cause we so much alike, Mobley wrote on Facebook with a photo of Shanara in 2021. She said she gave some of the money away. Until now.. 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. Police had to rely on composite drawings of the baby. It changed all of us. Mobley is around 5 feet 4 inches tall. Nobody acknowledges my pain. Arika told People that Alexis, or Lexy, as her family and friends knew her, started pestering her mother for her birth certificate and Social Security card in 2015 when she started applying for jobs. Its a feeling that you cant explain; its hard to put it in words right now. The baby was beautiful, she said, and she loved the how the name rolled off her tongue. I really do. By doing so, a potential life sentence was off the table and the prosecutor and Williams defense attorney agreed to a sentence of no more than 22 years. Mobley refused. Later, Shanara was interviewed, pleading for her daughters return. She worried about the impact of it all on her other children. Nine days later her water broke. But it wasnt exactly the happy reunion shed always imagined. Im not saying that at all, but it would have been a different life. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Over the past two years, Craig Aiken says hes watched his daughter grow from a teenager into an adult. Mobley then learned that her daughter found out a year and a half before Williams arrest that she was child who had been abducted from Jacksonville and that she did not go to authorities. Most of the information I know about Gloria is from Kamiyah, and its very little because we dont really talk about her, he said. Did she always talk this way, or be this funny and laugh? But always, there was a cake with candles and shed make a wish or two. While Shoenfeld declined to talk about the JSOs investigation of the Mobley family, he did have words for baby Kamiyah, now 18-year-old Alexis. Shortly after police tracked Kamiyah Mobley down, she met her biological parents, Shanara and Craig Aiken, for the first time. 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. Did she always have this much fun? Aiken said. She was born 10 July 1998, in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. An eight-hour-old baby is going to fit in just about any small bag, he continues. As Shanara Mobley struggled to put her life back together following Mobleys kidnapping, everything in Gloria Williamss life seemed to fall into place. When Williams abducted Kamiyah, she acted alone. Another $300,000 was set aside for Kamiyah, in the event she was found alive prior to her eighteenth birthday. She was healthy. But what may have seemed like a fairy-tale ending to a heartbreaking story is apparently not meant to be. "Kamiyah is now processing what it means for the woman shes known as [her] mother to receive an 18-year prison sentence," he said. Whenever I feel Im winning her back, boom, the other side pulls me down, Shanara Mobley, Kamiyahs biological mom, recently told the Daily Mail. Mobley has issues with trust. For 16 years, her biological parents Shanara Mobley and Craig Aiken had hoped for her safe return. 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. Alexis Manigo, 18, whose real name is Kamiyah Mobley, was abducted when she was a newborn from a hospital in Jacksonville, Florida is photographed at a hotel in Columbia, South Carolina, January 18, 2017. Why Williams chose Jacksonville, or University Medical Center, or Kamiyah Mobley in particular, remains a mystery. Not even a text message. Mobleys biological mother Shanara Mobley had three other children. I'm just trying to spare my feelings," said Aiken. 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. They showed up in Walterboro, conducted DNA tests, and confirmed the secret that Williams had tried to hide. After the sentencing was announced, Mobleys birth mother left the courtroom with a smile on her face. Five years passed before she had another baby and got to experience motherhood for more than eight hours. Every day people got to stay around me all day, every day to watch me. If you was faking a pregnancy I mean, if you just cant have no kids, I mean how do you think I feel? Kamiyah went missing at 3 PM, court documents say. But when she tried to get a Social Security number, she learned that her life was a lie. In May, there was a sentencing hearing. 1998 missing Jacksonville newborn found in South Carolina; 51-year-old woman arrested, READ: Kamiyah Mobleys fake birth certificate, Teen abducted from Jacksonville hospital at birth reunited with parents, Kamiyah Mobleys dad on Lifetime movie about daughters kidnapping: This is not us. That way she could finally start a relationship with her daughter. I ask for the courts grace and mercy, as I need my mother home.. Mobley starred on a nationally syndicated talk show named Iyanla: Fix My Life which airs on Oprah Winfreys OWN Network. The last time Kamiyah and Shanara spoke was the night before Mothers Day. On the 20th anniversary of the abduction of Kamiyah Mobley from a Jacksonville hospital, the Times-Union andjacksonville.compresent a new podcast, Have You Seen Kamiyah?. They said Alexis was both well-mannered and well-read. Its been exciting, Aiken said. Shortly after police tracked Kamiyah Mobley down, she met her biological parents, Shanara and Craig Aiken, for the first time. In 1998, newborn Kamiyah Mobley was kidnapped from a Florida hospital by Gloria Williams, who had recently miscarried a baby of her own. Her attorney told the Washington Post that Williams always kept Alexiss doctors appointments and provided her with the braces she wears today. Gloria Williams with Alexis Manigo, about a month after shed kidnapped the infant in Florida. She never had a drivers license or state-issued ID. Since January 2016, First Coast News has not received a response to multiple attempts to reach Shanara. Even though Kamiyahs then-16-year-old mother Shanara Mobley was understandably inconsolable, she made a desperate plea for help on TV. They write letters. In 2018, she asked the court for leniency, CNN notes. So that was of no value whatsoever., They had no photographs, no helpful video images and no vehicle descriptions. Her salary is under review. I could still be running the streets. You go to the hospital for the most joyous day of you life only to have someone steal that new life from you. Williams is also not about to drop the mantle of mom, either. As for Williams, Shanarawho readily acknowledges that she hates the kidnapperis hoping that the woman will let her daughter go. Manigo met with her birth parents, Craig Aiken and Shanara Mobley, last weekend in Columbia and says she is trying to I just didnt want to be here, she said. Her claim was repelled. Kamiyah Mobley/Alexis Manigo. Another cake. "Though the sentence imposed today was more than we had hoped for, we appreciate the time and attention Judge Aho took to fully consider this matter," Johnson added. She is building a relationship with her biological father and his wife. The first time round, Gloria stole my baby by herself. Williams neighbors and friends were astounded by the news and never suspected anything unusual about her. Another wish. National Center For Missing And Exploited ChildrenKamiyah Mobley was just hours old when she was abducted from her mothers hospital room. The Jacksonville Sheriffs Office followed over 2,000 leads during the next two-and-a-half years in hopes of bringing Kamiyah Mobley home. 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. Kamiyah Mobley Fake Birth C by ActionNewsJax. The couple split in 2003. She didnt want to lose her mother. I didnt know what you went through.. If you dont have no kids, she cried, choking back sobs, her voice rising as she wept. She was tired, she said, of being disrespected. Since then had three other children. Did she always act this way? Launching on Tuesday, July 10, Have You Seen Kamiyah? can be heard atjacksonville.com/kamiyah, Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. The sentences run concurrently and Williams received credit for 511 days of time served. She served as youth-group leader for her Methodist church, which she attended every Sunday. ET on Showtime. Though shed since had more children, shed never forgotten her firstborn baby. Each July 10, Shanara Mobley cut a slice of cake for herself and then cut a piece for her missing child, Kamiyah. I dont understand that," said Aiken. Sitting at her kitchen table late last month, Mobley said she was feeling an unbearable weight of stress and depression. The fabricated documents, along with two tips relayed to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in August and November of 2016, were key to dismantling the falsehood that, by then, had stretched into its eighteenth year. She was scared. Kamiyah had been raised under the name Alexis Manigo. She told her family that shed gone into labor at work and given birth to a daughter. She left her abusive relationship, regained custody of her sons, remarried, and raised Mobley as her own daughter though now renamed Alexis Manigo. She gave interviews on shows like Today, Good Morning America, and WCBD News 2. 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. She was found alive in Walterboro, South Carolina in January 2017. The abducted child was happy, she learned. His mother taught government and economics, and his father, as a football coach, taught world history and US history when he was younger. After Mobley continued calling her names along with threatening her, Vanzant ended the show. Struggling with postpartum depression, Williams didnt go home to South Carolina but instead drove for four hours to Floridas University Medical Center. At Friday's sentencing, Williams, 52, was given credit for her 511 days of time served. I wanted to pick that child up and say, 'Lets get in this car and go' -- I just couldnt.". She has since had three more children. But though Shanara and Aiken had gained their daughter back, Kamiyah Mobley had lost the woman she saw as her mother. JSO said her suspicions were sparked when she tried to apply for jobs, and she ran into I.D. 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. Gloria Williams passed off the baby as the child of her former romantic partner, Charles Manigo, and they raised her as their own. 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. Williams raised her as her own daughter under the name Alexis Manigo. Family, Parents, Siblings, Education Shanara Mobley, 16, gave birth to Kamiyah on July 10, 1998. The kidnapper, according to news reports, was dressed in a blue floral smock and green scrub pants. 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