Kamiyah Mobley Alexis Manigo Gloria Williams Kidnapper Kamiyah Mobley: now 18 Kamiyah Mobley was found living in South Carolina as Alexis Manigo Kamiyah Mobley Found My mother raised me with everything I needed... she is no felon': Teen girl who was snatched from hospital by a woman dressed as a nurse 18 years ago defends her abductor after she is found living with her in South Carolina Kamiyah Mobley, now 18, was found living in South Carolina as Alexis Manigo She was kidnapped as a baby from a Florida hospital by Gloria Williams The 18-year-old girl was found living with the women who abducted her Kamiyah was allowed to see Williams in jail after arrest and cried out 'Momma' The teenager defended Williams on Facebook saying 'my mother is no felon' Police said Williams will be extradited from South Carolina back to Florida Girl's biological family had spoken to her on video chat from Florida on Friday The baby girl who was kidnapped from a Florida hospital by a woman dressed as a nurse 18 years ago has defended her abductor after she was found living with her in South Carolina. Kamiyah Mobley, now 18, was found alive and well in South Carolina living under the name Alexis Manigo. The 51-year-old woman she long-believed to be her mother, Gloria Williams, was arrested and charged with kidnapping. The teenager took to Facebook to defend Williams on Friday as news of the woman's arrest spread. 'My mother raised me with everything I needed and most of all everything I wanted,' she wrote. 'My mother is no felon.' Kamiyah Mobley, now 18, was found living in South Carolina on Friday living under the name Alexis Manigo. Gloria Williams, 51, has been arrested for kidnapping the girl from Florida Kamiyah Mobley (left in a composite created by police) was kidnapped by a woman pretending to be a nurse (right) 18 years ago. This week she was found alive in South Carolina The mystery of Kamiyah Mobley became a national sensation when she was stolen from her mother Shanara Mobley's arms at the University Medical Center in Jacksonville in July 1998. Williams had suffered a miscarriage about a week before she drove the three hours from South Carolina to Florida and abducted baby Kamiyah, Walterboro Live reports Jacksonville police said the teenager found out on Friday morning that the woman who raised her in Walterboro, South Carolina her whole life was not her real mother. Within hours, Kamiyah was able to reconnect over FaceTime with her birth parents Shanara Mobley and Craig Aiken who cried 'tears of joy' after a detective told them their baby had been found. My mother raised me with everything I needed and most of all everything I wanted. My mother is no felon. Kamiyah Mobley Williams, who also has two biological children who grew up with Kamiyah, will be extradited back to Florida and is being held without bond, according to Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams. Kamiyah, who has graduated high school and is believed to have a steady boyfriend, was allowed to spend a few emotional moments with Williams in court on Friday. She cried 'Momma' through the caged window of a security door after Williams waived extradition to Florida, News4JAX reports. Williams could face up to life in prison if convicted. The news came as a shock to neighbors who have only ever known Kamiyah to be Williams' daughter. They say Williams seemed like a normal person who was employed as a social worker, volunteered and attended church every Sunday. 'She wasn't an abused child or a child who got in trouble. But she grew up with a lie for 18 years,' Joseph Jenkins, who lives across the street, told the Associated Press. Investigators are currently speaking with Williams' family to learn more about the abduction. Authorities have not yet determined Williams' links to Jacksonville. Tears of joy flowed freely for Kamiyah's biological parents Craig Aiken (pictured left on Friday) and Shanara Mobley (pictured right in 1998 after her daughter was abducted) Kamiyah was allowed to speak to Williams on Friday from behind a caged window before the 51-year-old was extradited from South Carolina to Florida Kamiyah Mobley, now 18, was found alive and well in South Carolina on Friday living under the name Alexis Manigo A cousin of Gloria Williams said the revelation was 'brand new to all of us.' The sensational news solves a cold case that accumulated more than 2,500 tips in search of the girl and captivated both the city and the country for more than a decade. The case broke thanks to a tip received by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children last year that led Jacksonville police to South Carolina. The source of the tip has not been revealed. They found an 18-year-old woman with Kamiyah Mobley's birth date but a different name and quickly discovered that fraudulent documents had been used to establish her identity.

• published: 14 Jan 2017
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