A girl stolen as a newborn from a hospital in Jacksonville, Florida, has been found alive in South Carolina after more than 18 years, police say.<\/p>\n
Kamiyah Mobley, who was abducted in July 1998, was found after a tip.<\/p>\n
Authorities in Walterboro, South Carolina, have charged Gloria Williams, 51, with kidnapping.<\/p>\n
Ms Mobley was living under another name and believed Ms Williams to be her mother. The biological family have been notified of the news.<\/p>\n
Jacksonville Sherriff’s Office said DNA tests had confirmed Ms Mobley’s identity.<\/p>\n
She appeared in good health, a “normal 18-year-old woman”, it said.<\/p>\n
The office said it had acted on 2,500 tips since the abduction and received one last year to @MissingKids that eventually broke the case.<\/p>\n
It showed the original composite images released at the time of the kidnapping, along with a photograph of Ms Williams, who was arrested at her home on Friday morning.<\/p>\n
Family ‘elated’<\/strong> The woman told Kamiyah’s mother, Shanara, that her baby had a fever and needed to be checked. She took the baby out of the room and disappeared.<\/p>\n The case brought significant media attention as Shanara tried to locate her child.<\/p>\n Although the biological family had been notified of the discovery and were “elated”, the Jacksonville Sherriff’s Office said: “It is up to the victim on how contact will be made. The victim is now an adult.”<\/p>\n Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams said: “She had an idea that something may have occurred but… imagine her trying to process this.<\/p>\n “She was abducted as a newborn and needs time to process this… We want to respect her privacy and we ask that you do too.”<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A girl stolen as a newborn from a hospital in Jacksonville, Florida, has been found alive in South Carolina after more than 18 years, police say. Kamiyah Mobley, who was abducted in July 1998, was found after a tip. Authorities in Walterboro, South Carolina, have charged Gloria Williams, 51, with kidnapping. Ms Mobley was living […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":284750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,117],"tags":[2978,2636,2979,594],"class_list":["post-284749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-odd","tag-11-storey-fall","tag-baby","tag-south-carolina","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=284749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe baby was only eight hours old when she was taken by a woman posing as a health care worker at the University Medical Center, now known as UF Health Jacksonville.<\/p>\n