“Kamiyah Mobley discovered her true identity 2 years ago”
USA - Kamiyah Mobley, the 18-year-old abducted as a newborn from a Florida hospital and raised by her alleged kidnapper in a South Carolina home, found out she was abducted about two years ago when she went to apply for a job, according to her halfsister.
“She was upset about it,” Mobley’s half sister Arika Williams tells PEOPLE. “She even stayed home from school the next day.”
Mobley was only hours old on July 10, 1998 when authorities allege Gloria Williams posed as a health care worker and took her from a Jacksonville, Florida, hospital maternity ward. According to local reports, Mobley was briefly handed to Williams because her family believed she was a nurse, while hospital staff believed Williams was a relative. Williams was arrested on January 16 at her home in Walterboro, South Carolina, where she was raising Mobley — who was called Alexis Kelli Manigo. Arika says Williams broke down and told Mobley the truth after the teen was hired at a local restaurant and was asked to provide a birth certificate and social security information. “Lexy didn’t have that so she asked Miss Gloria for it and Miss Gloria kept brushing it off,” says Arika. “Lexy kept being hard on her mother, like ‘Momma, where is my stuff? I want to get this job.’ Then Miss Gloria just broke down and told her this is why right here, you can’t do this. I kidnapped you.” Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams tells PEOPLE investigators are still trying to put the pieces together. “We don’t know exactly what she knew,” he says about Mobley. “We know that obviously there was conversation about her maybe not being her daughter. Did she confess completely to her, or did she just give her pieces of it? We are not quite sure at this point.” According to Arika, Gloria Williams allegedly told her daughter she had been pregnant but suffered a miscarriage. “Gloria was pregnant at the baby shower and had people there bringing homemade quilts saying Alexis’ name on it,” Arika says. “Alexis Kelli Manigo was going to be spoiled regardless but I guess she said she lost Alexis Kelli Manigo. She was going to find Alexis Kelli Manigo and went and got Kamiyah.” (People)