SA finally gets to meet ‘Zephany’
This is Miché Solomon, whose name and face have been a secret for five years since she was identified as stolen baby Zephany Nurse.
Solomon’s identity was revealed on Tuesday thanks to a book titled Zephany: Two Mothers, One Daughter, An Unbelievable True Story.
The 22-year-old, who only met her biological parents when she was 18, applied to the high court in Pretoria to have a ban restricting the publication of her identity lifted.
Just hours after her wish was granted, the book was set to hit the shelves.
Announcing the book, NB Publishers said on its website: “It is every mother’s worst nightmare: Your newborn baby is kidnapped shortly after birth.
“But how does it feel if you find out as a teenager that you are in fact the kidnapped baby?
“Your mother is your kidnapper and you are Zephany Nurse.
“In this book, Miché Solomon tells her side of the story for the first time.
“She talks about her battle with her double identity, the complicated relationships with her two families, and who she is now.”
The 320-page book was written by Joanne Jowell.
In an affidavit filed in the high court in Pretoria, Solomon motivated for the overturning of the previous court order restricting the publication of her real name.
She said her position was fundamentally different from when the order was granted and that she was at peace with her new reality.
The high court in Cape Town sentenced the woman who had kidnapped Solomon to 10 years in prison in 2016.
In her plea explanation‚ Lavona Solomon had detailed numerous attempts to conceive‚ miscarriages and her desperation to adopt a child.
Zephany was reunited with her biological parents, the Nurses, in 2015 after her sister, Cassidy, enrolled at Zephany’s school and pupils remarked on their similarities, which led to an investigation.