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":[],"categories":[107,117],"tags":[2978,2636,2979,594],"yoast_head":"\n
\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