Kidnapping of Kamiyah Mobley

Kamiyah Teresiah Tasha Mobley was born on July 10, 1998, to 16-year-old Shanara "Starr" Mobley at a Florida hospital. Eight hours after birth, she was abducted by a woman impersonating a nurse. The woman, dressed in a floral blue smock and green scrub pants and possibly wearing glasses and a wig, entered the hospital room, assisted and conversed with Shanara Mobley, and then left with the infant. Hospital employees initially believed the woman was a member of the Mobley family. Shanara Mobley later gave interviews pleading for her daughter's return.

Because no photographs existed of Kamiyah before the abduction, investigators created a computer-generated composite image for distribution to the media, and publicized distinctive physical features such as Mongolian spots and an umbilical hernia to aid identification. The case did not produce a break until 2017, when new tips led investigators to Walterboro, South Carolina. There, a young woman living under the name Alexis Manigo had grown suspicious of her upbringing in 2015 after her guardian, Gloria Williams, refused to provide her a social security card and birth certificate needed for a job application. A DNA sample taken from Mobley after her 1998 birth was matched to a swab taken from the South Carolina woman, confirming her identity. At the time of recovery, she had graduated from Colleton County High School and had been raised alongside Williams' two other children.

Gloria Williams, about 33 years old at the time of the abduction, was found to have forged documents to create a new identity for the child. Williams was reportedly in an abusive relationship and had miscarried a child a week before the abduction, which is believed to be a motive. She had a prior record involving check and welfare fraud. Williams was arrested in South Carolina and extradited to Florida, where she was charged with kidnapping and interfering with custody. In February 2018, she pleaded guilty to kidnapping and admitted she acted alone. On June 8, 2018, she was sentenced to 18 years in prison. In March 2022, a motion to reduce her sentence to nine years was denied, despite a handwritten letter of support from Mobley. Williams is incarcerated at Hernando Correctional Institution and is scheduled for release on July 23, 2032. Mobley has said she continues to communicate with Williams and refers to her as her mother.

Separately, Shanara Mobley settled a lawsuit against the former University Medical Center and was awarded $1.5 million. She has since had three other children. The case was adapted into a Lifetime television film, "Stolen by My Mother: The Kamiyah Mobley Story," which aired January 18, 2020.