https://www.vibe.com › 2018 › 07 › shanara-mobley-kamiyah-not-speaking Currently, mother and daughter are not on speaking terms. She's still processing things. She was tired, she said, of being “disrespected.”, “I didn’t know this kidnapper had such a hold on her. Kamiyah Mobley's birth mother - Shanara Mobley - was interviewed Friday by British tabloid DailyMail.com. The older Mobley still feels betrayed. “I feel like (Shanara) just thinks everything with me has Gloria written over it. I still do call her ‘Mom,’” Kamiyah told ABC News. If you feel any sympathy for me, let her go, please.”, News Editor at The Root, animation nerd, soca junkie, yogi. Kamiyah Mobley's birth mother - Shanara Mobley - was interviewed Friday by British tabloid DailyMail.com. This can’t be undone in the way Shanara wants it to be, just like her animosity towards Gloria isn’t going to dissipate, her daughters affections for her aren’t going to wither and die. This time ’round, now you’ve got the legal system helping her to steal her all over again. Yes, she is her biological parent, but the daughter has spent her entire life identifying with Gloria as her mother and they have real affection and love that has built up over their shared time together. “I’m not saying there’s not a time that we can get closer, but I really should not have to compete with that woman,” she explained. Sunday, July 8th 2018. Though Shanara Mobley said finding her daughter "was one of the happiest days" of her life, they do not have contact and the devastated mother has even blocked her phone number, she told the Florida … Kamiyah openly acknowledges that she still loves her imposter “mom,” and speaks to the woman regularly, sending her biological mother into a despair … Just let my baby go. Mobley, 21, was snatched from a Jacksonville, Florida, hospital just hours after her birth in July 1998. The Blacker the Content the Sweeter the Truth. Gloria Williams, 51, who Mobley believed was her mother, has been charged with kidnapping and interference with custody. I’m being rejected for a kidnapper; how do you think that feels?”. The pair argued, and Shanara cut the visit short and drove home. Williams is also not about to drop the mantle of mom, either. A baby snatched from the hospital. Niecy Nash Set To Star in Lifetime Film ‘Kidnapped: The Kamiyah Mobley Story’, 20 Years After Kidnapping, Shanara Mobley Says Sometimes She Wishes Her Daughter ‘Never Came Back’, Birth Mom of Kidnapped Florida Teen Refuses to Compete with Daughter’s Abductor: It’s Either Her or Me. I think she blames me that this woman is sitting in jail. On Jan. 13, 2017, … I think I’m a pretty good person. “She would defend the kidnapper to me. “I don’t feel that she should still be able to contact Kamiyah, and I don’t feel that her family should be able to contact my child,” she said. She said her daughter was pregnant in … Williams is now serving an 18-year sentence for her crime, but Mobley (aka Alexis Manigo) says she has no ill-will toward her abductor and has since forgiven her. “It’s like a tug of war between us. Kamiyah openly acknowledges that she still loves her imposter “mom,” and speaks to the woman regularly, sending her biological mother into a despair that has created a gaping chasm between them. The interview was conducted on the same day that Gloria Williams was sentenced to … “Shanara is a mother. I don’t know.”, Meanwhile, Kamiyah Mobley’s relationship with her bio dad couldn’t be better. But her seemingly perfect life unraveled after she learned she was kidnapped mere hours after she was born — and by the woman who claimed to be her mother. Article continues below advertisement For most of her young life, Kamiyah Mobley believed she was the daughter of a woman named Gloria Williams and that her name was Alexis Kelly Manigo. Kamiyah Mobley also admits their relationship is rocky and needs some work. I feel like I’m being robbed all over again every time she reaches out to my daughter,” she added. The teen also continues to live in Williams’ home in South Carolina, saying that she looks forward to the day Wiliams is released. The film chronicles Mobley’s real-life experience of being kidnapped and eventually reunited with her biological parents, Shanara Mobley and Craig Aiken. In that time the kidnapper, Gloria Williams, was tried and recently sentenced to 18 years in prison, and Kamiyah was reunited with her biological family. “It’s like a tug of war between us. “I actually was working to trying to keep these two families happy,” she told Roberts. Mobley’s mother lived in Central Florida. “I shouldn’t have to compete with a kidnapper—she has to pick one of us,” Shanara said. As for Williams, Shanara—who readily acknowledges that she hates the kidnapper—is hoping that the woman will let her daughter go. Shanara Mobley, birth mother of Kamiyah Mobley, smiles as she leaves the sentencing of Gloria Williams, June 8, 2018 at the Duval County Courthouse in Jacksonville, Fla. The daughter who had her life torn apart and now has to watch the woman she knew as her mother be jailed for 18 years, the biological mother who suffered the loss of her child while still recuperating from giving birth, and yes even the faux mother who by all accounts raised Kamiyah very well but now has to pay for her crime. “Nobody acknowledges my pain. Mobley is played by Rayven Ferrell. “I pray to God he changes my heart towards you, but I hate you and that hate is very, very, very strong,” Shanara said, addressing Williams directly. Recalling the day they were finally reunited, Kamiyah Mobley said it was a quick, easy bond. In the summer of 1998, Gloria Williams (Nash), reeling from a recent miscarriage, drove from her home in South Carolina and walked into a Jacksonville, Florida hospital posing as a nurse and took newborn Kamiyah Mobley (Ferrell) out of her mother Shanara Mobley’s (Jones) arms. We publish narratives intentionally and specifically to enlighten and transform the world. She blames me for everything. “I just want to let her know I’m okay.”. Kamiyah Mobley says she has no harsh words for the woman who abducted her, the very woman she called “mom” for 18 years. She also still goes by the name Williams gave her—Alexis Manigo—on Facebook and other social media. “Help me to forgive you. But what may have seemed like a fairy-tale ending to a heartbreaking story is apparently not meant to be. It’s been over a year since Kamiyah Mobley, who was kidnapped as a newborn, was found alive and well, living happily with the woman who kidnapped her. “We actually talked today. Gloria Brown - She is the mother of Gloria Williams, and the woman who Kamiyah Mobley thought was her biological grandmother. According to South Carolina's The Post and Courier, Kamiyah did not learn the truth until 2016.Then a junior in high school, Kamiyah had applied for a job and was asked to provide her Social Security number. “They're trying,” replied Aiken when asked about Kamiyah’s current relationship with her biological mother. 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, Florida hospital posing as a nurse and took newborn Kamiyah Mobley (Rayven Ferrell) out of her mother Shanara Mobley’s (Ta’Rhonda Jones) arms. Throughout her childhood and adolescence, Kamiyah believed Williams was her biological mother, police said. Whenever I feel I’m winning her back, boom, the other side pulls me down,” Shanara Mobley, Kamiyah’s biological mom, recently told the Daily Mail. 36.5k Followers, 2,117 Following, 91 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Kamiyah Mobley Alexis Manigo (@k.queent.t.me) Mobley reportedly knew about her abduction months before Williams’ arrest in 2017, but kept it under wraps. She has waived extradition to Florida, WJXT reported. I think I’m a pretty good sister. Last month, we reported that Kamiyah Mobley’s mother, Shanara Mobley said that she was not speaking to her daughter. The teen continues to call Williams behind bars, saving the number of the Duval County Jail in Jacksonville, Fla., in her phone under “Mommy,” the Daily Mail notes. Gloria Williams, Kamiyah Mobley's kidnapper and the woman she long believed to be her mother, was sentenced on Friday for her crimes Sign up to receive The Atlanta Black Star Newsletter in your inbox. From that one mistake I was given the best life. Reporter: It was the kidnapping of a newborn baby that rattled a nation. “We could have been quiet in the room and felt peace looking at each other.”. She currently lives with her mother, Shanara Mobley, her father, Craig, and their extended family. For most of her young life, Kamiyah Mobley believed she was the daughter of a woman named Gloria Williams and that her name was Alexis Kelly Manigo. She currently lives with her mother, Shanara Mobley, her father, Craig, and their extended family. Shanara Mobley and Kamiyah Mobley. Directed by Jeffrey W. Byrd. Now 21, Mobley has been reunited with her biological family, but still calls her kidnapper "Mom." These days, the now 21-year-old Mobley said she’s feeling caught in the middle. “Every phone call they share, every Mother’s Day card Kamiyah sends her, it just makes the pain worse. But Shanara, who has four other children besides Kamiyah, hasn’t given up on making a connection with her firstborn. “Oh yeah, she calls and still gets on me. Atlanta Black Star is a narrative company. Gloria went on to rename the baby Alexis and raised her as her own. At one point, Shanara Mobley revealed she wasn’t even on speaking terms with her daughter because of her attachment to Williams. The child was left on her own to have a child, and 8-pound Kamiyah was born the next morning. Kamiyah Mobley was kidnapped on the morning of July 10, 1998 — sparking a nationwide search that only ended a staggering 18 years later in January 2017. I’m tired of being hurt.”. Yes, she does,” the teen added. Kamiyah disappeared from the public eye shortly afterward. “It’s a roller coaster with us,” she explained. Kamiyah Mobley was kidnapped from the hospital, now known as UF Health Jacksonville, by a woman dressed as a nurse who befriended the young mother and walked out with the baby. “I shouldn’t have to compete with a kidnapper — she has to pick one of us,” she told the Daily Mail in 2018, adding that the pain of being rejected by Kamiyah cuts just as deep as the day she was kidnapped by Williams. Please, bring me back my child. Velma Aiken - She is Kamiyah Mobley's biological grandmother and Craig Aiken's mother. It was a story that gripped the nation. Kamiyah Mobley (centre) was reunited with mother Shanara Mobley and father Craig Aiken She then added: "She made one mistake, but I was loved. The mother of Kamiyah Mobley, who was found alive nearly 20 years after she was kidnapped from a Florida hospital, wishes "they never would have found her.". Hard situation for all involved. Gloria Williams was given an 18-year sentence last month for the kidnapping of Kamiyah Mobley from a hospital in Jacksonville in July 1998. Gloria Williams, 51, who Mobley believed was her mother, has been charged with kidnapping and interference with custody. A A. Kamiyah Mobley (WCIV) JACKSONVILLE, S.C. (AP) — … Mobley found out in 2017 that Williams was not her biological mother. Shanara was interviewed later, pleading for the ret… Kamiyah Mobley was kidnapped on the morning of July 10, 1998 — sparking a nationwide search that only ended a staggering 18 years later in January 2017. She can reach out to my daughter every day—my sentence won’t stop until she’s dead.”, The last time Kamiyah and Shanara spoke was the night before Mother’s Day. With Niecy Nash, Garfield Wilson, Ta'Rhonda Jones, Alvin Sanders. Her kidnapper, Gloria Williams, fled to South Carolina and raised the baby girl as her own until 2017, when the truth finally came to light. Please let my baby go. Kamiyah Mobley was kidnapped from the hospital, now known as UF Health Jacksonville, by a woman dressed as a nurse who befriended the young mother and walked out with the baby. However, as a new Instagram post by her biological father, Craig Aiken, reveals, she moved to Jacksonville on Dec. 7, 2019. Kamiyah Mobley was a newborn when she was abducted from a Florida hospital in 1998 by Gloria Williams, the woman who would raise her as her own. I can see that it’s my child, but I can also see traits from the kidnapper in her,” the mother said. In fact, she told “Good Morning America” co-host Robin Roberts in a recent interview that she would still like to see her “mother.”, “I do,” Mobley told the journalist during a special edition of “Nightline” last week. Maybe that’s it. Article continues below advertisement He went on to explain that he believes the information he gains from talking with Williams will help him to mend Kamiyah’s relationship … by Associated Press. Kamiyah Mobley opened up about still being close to her kidnapper, Gloria Williams, struggling with her biological mom, and trying to make both of her families happy despite the situation. Stolen By My Mother: How Kamiyah Mobley was raised by her kidnapper for 18 years, before being hit by a grave lie. But her seemingly perfect life unraveled after she learned she was kidnapped mere hours after she was born — and by the woman who claimed to be her mother. Mobley’s relationship with her birth parents has had its ups and downs, especially with Shanara Mobley, who’s still dealing with the pain of losing a child for 18 years. Employees initially believed that the woman who kidnapped Kamiyah was a member of the Mobley family. It was a story that gripped the nation. It’s been over a year since Kamiyah Mobley, who was kidnapped as a newborn, was found alive and well, living happily with the woman who kidnapped her. Roberts was inspired to create the film after Good Morning America covered the story . Kamiyah Mobley was born on July 10, 1998, to sixteen-year-old Shanara Mobley. However, as a new Instagram post by her biological father, Craig Aiken, reveals, she moved to Jacksonville on Dec. 7, 2019. This is a story of a young woman who discovers at age 18, she was abducted as a baby and the family she knew to be hers, wasn't hers at all. She was abducted eight hours after birth by a woman impersonating a nurse, reportedly dressed in hospital attire, who entered the room, assisted and conversed with the mother, and later walked out of the room with Kamiyah in her arms. Prosecutors acknowledge that there is nothing they can do about Kamiyah and Williams communicating. She has waived extradition to Florida, WJXT reported. Contribute to Atlanta Black Star today and help us share our narratives. Kamiyah Mobley's mother says pain lingers after lost child was found. Roberts recently teamed up with award-winning actress Niecy Nash for the TV feature film “Stolen by My Mother: The Kamiyah Mobley Story,” which aired Jan. 18 on the Lifetime Network. “I think I’m a pretty good aunt. Whenever I feel I’m winning her back, boom, the other side pulls me down.”. Posted on July 12, 2018 - ByVeronica Wells Last month, we reported that Kamiyah Mobley’s mother, Shanara Mobley said that she was not speaking to … The sentencing "closes a painful chapter for all involved," … I think I’m all right.”. Ranting about Gloria deserving the death penalty and insisting on Kamiyah’s immediate obedience and forgetting her past is doomed to fail. She’s blocked now because I don’t want to argue with her. “The first time ’round, Gloria stole my baby by herself. Shanara Mobley wouldn't know her child's whereabouts until 18 years later. Kamiyah Mobley says she has no harsh words for the woman who abducted her, the very woman she called “mom” for 18 years. “Because of my experiences in the last couple of years, it’s kind of forced me to have an open mind,” said Kamiyah Mobley. Stolen By My Mother: How Kamiyah Mobley was raised by her kidnapper for 18 years, before being hit by a grave lie. (Center) Kamiyah Mobley, 18 year old who was abducted at birth reunited with mother Shanara Mobley and father Craig Aiken. Despite all that has happened in recent years, the young woman said she’s still working to keep both sides of her family happy and is navigating her new normal in a way she sees fit. She even refers to him as “daddy.”, “We just kind of hugged each other,” she said. This frustration has led the older Mobley to issue a heart-wrenching ultimatum to her 19-year-old daughter. Kamiyah disappeared from the public eye shortly afterward. 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