Kamiyah Mobley

Newborn Kidnapped In 1998 Found Alive

... of her were shared. Walterboro native Gloria Williams, 51, is being charged with the child's abduction and extradited back to Jacksonville. Kamiyah Mobley reportedly believed she was her biological mother. The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office partnered with the FBI throughout the nearly two-decade investigation. Missing child resources , tips and Kamiyah Mobley's own suspicions helped lead the authorities to her location. According to Sheriff Mike Williams, it is Kamiyah Mobley's, who is now legally an adult, decision to reach out to her biological family, including her half siblings. #Kamiyah Mobley - It is up to the victim on how contact will be made. The victim is now an adult. #JAX #JSO #Jacksonville. — Jax Sheriff's Office (@JSOPIO) January 13, 2017. Gloria Williams posed as a nurse during the kidnapping. Kamiyah Mobley was 8-hours-old when it happened. According to the Florida ...

Newborn Kidnapped In 1998 Found Alive

... she was her biological mother. The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office partnered with the FBI throughout the nearly two-decade investigation. Missing child resources , tips and Kamiyah Mobley's own suspicions helped lead the authorities to her location. According to Sheriff Mike Williams, it is Kamiyah Mobley's, who is now legally an adult, decision to reach out to her biological family, including her half siblings. #Kamiyah Mobley - It is up to the victim on how contact will be made. The victim is now an adult. #JAX #JSO #Jacksonville. — Jax Sheriff's Office (@JSOPIO) January 13, 2017. Gloria Williams posed as a nurse during the kidnapping. Kamiyah Mobley was 8-hours-old when it happened. According to the Florida Times-Union, Gloria Williams allegedly roamed the hospital for 14 hours asking about Sharara Mobley's baby. She spent 5 hours with the mother and child before she said the baby ...

Newborn Kamiyah Mobley, Stolen From Jacksonville Hospital 18 Years Ago, Found Safe; Arrest Made And Reunion Coming

... last year, two more came in to the Center for Missing and Exploited Children that sent Sheriff’s Office cold case investigators to Walterboro to work with local police, the sheriff said. Walterboro is in Colleton County, about 50 miles west of Charleston and 200 miles north of Jacksonville. A small town with just over 5,000 people, it’s also the county seat. Investigators tracked down an 18-year-old woman with the same 1998 birthday, then learned that fraudulent documents had been used to establish her identity, the sheriff said. Interviews with others in the community led investigators to believe she might be Kamiyah, and the young woman gave a DNA sample this week. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s crime lab matched it with a tissue sample taken when she was born. Williams was arrested Friday on charges of kidnapping and with a charge of interference with custody, the sheriff said. The ...

A Newborn Was Snatched From A Florida Hospital. She Was Just Found Safe

... Power Post. Sign up to follow, and we’ll e-mail you free updates as they’re published. You’ll receive free e-mail news updates each time a new story is published. You’re all set. By Avi Selk January 13 at 4:18 PM Follow aviselk. A woman who was taken as a baby from a Florida hospital in 1998 has been found safe and authorities arrested a woman on charges that include kidnapping. (Reuters). The abduction of Kamiyah Mobley from a Florida newborn ward was so shocking that police stopped every train out of Jacksonville and searched each one, row by row, in 1998. It was so sudden — a 16-year-old gave birth to Kamiyah eight hours before an impostor nurse snatched her — that missing posters had to use an artist’s conception of the baby. Those posters were plastered all over Jacksonville in the first year of her disappearance. And the next year. And the next, and the next — despite a $250,000 reward for Kamiyah’s recovery, at least three appearances on “America’s Most Wanted” and a search across multiple countries. Today, 18 years after the disappearance, the girl has been found. “It’s a case like we have not ...

Woman Kidnapped As Newborn 18 Years Ago Is Alive

... All that time, police said, she was being raised under a different name in Walterboro. Then, some months ago, the young woman "had an inclination" that she may have been kidnapped, the sheriff said. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children reached out to the cold case detectives at the sheriff's office, and Mobley provided a swab of her cheek for DNA analysis that proved the match, the sheriff said. The young woman's birth family is rejoicing, but the young woman has been provided with counseling. How and when she'll reconnect with them is up to her. The Mobleys never forgot. Her mother, Shanara Mobley, told the Florida Times-Union newspaper on the 10 th Anniversary of the kidnapping that on every one of Kamiyah's birthdays, she wrapped a piece of birthday cake in foil. "It's stressful to wake up every day, knowing that your child is out there and you have no way to reach her or talk to her," Mobley told the paper in 2008. The sheriff said he doesn't know when Kamiyah will reach out to her birth family. She's only beginning a process of coming to terms with the fact that her true identity was stolen from her. "She's 18, an adult and clearly a victim in ...

Baby Abducted Hours After Birth Has Been Found Alive 18 Years Later

... photos and doc infamous will be able to make sure that we. Lisa's give his LT. So this morning I met with a biological family at the Meier appeared Jacksonville. And recognizing emotional impact you to all of these victims and people involved in this case and both cities recorded victims' advocates. To provide services. Two to all those involved. Including Akamai and softer. This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate. Now Playing: Terrance Wise and the Fight for 15. Now Playing: VP Joe Biden's Plans After Office. Now Playing: VP Joe Biden on Initiative to Cure Cancer, Late Son Beau's Family. Now Playing: Chris Smith: A Firefighter Searches for Time. Now Playing: Bill Sargent: 'Paycheck to Paycheck is an Understatement'. Now Playing: Real Housewife of NJ, Siggy Flicker Helps Two Singles Trying to Find Love in 2017. Now Playing: Watch the Citadel's Regimental Band and Pipes Rehearse Before Inauguration. Now Playing: Woman Abducted 18 Years Ago as a Newborn Found Living in Another State. Now Playing: George Takei Starts Petition to 'Stand Up For Muslims'. Now Playing: Takata to Pay $1 Billion, Plead Guilty in Airbag ...

Infant Born At Jacksonville’s University Medical Center Taken From Family

... January 13, 2017 11:30 am - Updated January 13, 2017 03:39 pm. Derek L. Kinner. Infant born at Jacksonville’s University Medical Center taken from family. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children lists 184 children as missing in Florida. Kamiyah Mobley is one of eight that are from Northeast Florida. Kamiyah Mobley’s footprints were taken on July 10, 1998. Mother Shanara Mobley’s baby, Kamiyah, was abducted from University Medical Center July 1998. Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in the Times-Union and on __link__ on July 11, 1998. A girl born yesterday at Jacksonville’s University Medical Center was snatched from her mother’s room by a woman disguised in hospital garb. The afternoon abduction by someone who police said spent hours befriending the mother sparked a massive search. As helicopters circled above the medical complex on Eighth Street, officers on the ground searched vehicles leaving the hospital’s numerous exits and each floor of the hospital, room-by-room. Airports, bus terminals and taxicab companies throughout the city were alerted, but the newborn still hadn’t turned up by late last ...

Baby Kidnapped From Jacksonville Hospital Found Alive 18 Years Later

... who was visible only on hospital video, has eluded police for the last 18 years. The kidnapping has remained a cold case until now. #Kamiyah Mobley - Sheriff Mike Williams announcing 18 years later a kidnapped victim was found. #JAX #JSO #Jacksonville __link__/UIM 3 MZVaa 8. — Jax Sheriff's Office (@JSOPIO) January 13, 2017. The Sheriff's office says their investigation started back up when a tip was received from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The FBI in Jacksonville is assisting in the investigation. Mobley, now 18-years-old, goes by another name, and was found living in Walterboro, South Carolina. A search warrant and arrest warrant were issued and 51-year-old Gloria Williams was arrested and charged with kidnapping and interference with custody. RELATED: Hospital security rises to prevent infant abductions. When asked how Mobley is reacting to the news, "she's taking it as well as you can imagine. She has a lot to process, she has a lot to think about" said Sheriff Mike Williams. The Sheriff's Office says they believe that she ...

Hours-old Baby Kidnapped 18 Years Ago Found Alive

... shed around back. "At the fish market, the hair dresser, the gas station, they're all talking about it," said Ruben Boatwright, who said he's known Williams for about 15 years. Lakeshia Jenkins, Joseph's wife, said Williams and the girl would often come over for cookouts in the yard, or join their family at a nearby water park. Kamiyah seemed to be well cared for, and "Ms. Williams, she seemed like a normal person," Jenkins said. "She went to work, came back here and went to church every Sunday," she said. Williams also worked for the Department of Veterans Affairs' hospital in Charleston, volunteered in the area for Habitat for Humanity and lead the youth program at a Methodist church, she said. "She's very intelligent, smart as a whip," Boatwright said. "All I can say are good things about her.". The center's Lowery said this case shines a beacon to many other parents still missing children. "We have a lot of parents out there looking for their children, and have been for many years, and this provides them with additional hope that ...