Movie tells story of kidnapped baby

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A movie, “Stolen By My Mother: The Kamiyah Mobley Story,” about the story of the woman known then as Alexis Manigo and the woman she thought was her mother, Gloria Williams, will air on Lifetime on Jan. 18 at 8 p.m.

The movie’s preview says: “In the summer of 1998, Gloria Williams (Niecy Nash), reeling from a recent miscarriage, drove from her home in South Carolina and walked into a Jacksonville, Fla., hospital posing as a nurse and took newborn Kamiyah Mobley (Rayven Ferrell) out of her mother Shanara Mobley’s (Ta’Rhonda Jones) arms. “By the time police were alerted, Gloria was long gone.

“Renaming the baby Alexis, Gloria raised her as her own, providing her with unconditional love and nurturing. It wasn’t until years later, when Alexis applied for her first job and couldn’t provide a social security card or a birth certificate, that she realized something was wrong.

“As questions mounted, Gloria was forced to tell Alexis the truth, that she was really Kamiyah Mobley and abducted as a baby. Despite discovering the mother she knew was really her kidnapper, Alexis kept the secret as long as she could, until an anonymous tip soon led to Gloria’s arrest and their world came tumbling down.”

The movie was directed by Jeffrey W. Byrd by writers Richard Kletter, Michele Samit. Starring are Niecy Nash, Alvin Sanders and Garfield Wilson.

In January 2017, Alexis’ life changed forever when she found out she was really Kamiyah Mobley. The mother she grew up with was arrested by Jacksonville law enforcement at the family’s home in Walterboro, charged with kidnapping and later convicted.

Mobley found out that her birth parents were Shanara Mobley and Craig Aiken when she was born in Jacksonville on July 10, 1998. Her “new” family traveled to Walterboro to meet their lost daughter.

In 1998, Williams reportedly went into Shanara Mobley’s Florida hospital room, visited with the new mother and told her that her baby (then eight hours old) had a fever and needed to be examined. She then walked out of the hospital with the baby, brought her to Walterboro and raised her as her own. After an intensive investigation that became cold, Jacksonville law enforcement didn’t get another tip until late 2016 — a tip that led them to Walterboro. After obtaining a DNA sample from Kamiyah, officers identified her as the missing baby.

Officers arrived at the home on Jan. 13, 2017 at 5 a.m., arrested Williams and began their search for evidence that led to her conviction.