Kamiyah Mobley the 18-year-old who was abducted as a newborn from a Florida hospital, has defended the woman who raised her for nearly two decades.
“She loved me for 18 years. She raised me for 18 years … I will always love her,” Mobley said of her alleged abductor, Gloria Williams, during an interview with ABC News.
Kamiyah Mobley, now 18, was found alive in South Carolina living under the name Alexis Manigo, almost two decades after she was snatched from her mother at just eight days old.
A 51-year-old woman called Gloria Williams, who Kamiyah believed was her mother, was arrested and charged with kidnapping.
The teenager took to Facebook to defend Williams after news of her arrest spread.
She wrote: ‘My mother raised me with everything I needed and most of all everything I wanted. My mother is no felon.’
The search for Mobley made headlines after she was stolen from her mother Shanara Mobley’s arms at the University Medical Center in Jacksonville in July 1998.
Williams had reportedly suffered a miscarriage about a week before she travelled to South Carolina to Florida and abducted Kamiyah.
Gloria Williams the abductor
