Documents: Woman knew for months she’d been stolen at birth

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After the tips to the centre, detectives with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office in Florida obtained a cheek swab from Mobley. The DNA tests confirmed her identity, and Gloria Williams, 51, was arrested on a kidnapping charge.

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On Jan. 10, detectives from Florida went to Walterboro and obtained a birth certificate and Social Security card from the high school Mobley attended, and found both to be fraudulent, according to the documents. The Social Security number listed on the card was for a man in Virginia who had died in 1983.

“Alexis was a child and she relied on Gloria Williams with regards to any documents in existence,” said Mobley’s attorney, Justin Bamberg. “Kids don’t take care of that kind of stuff, a Social Security card or any type of birth certificate.”

The affidavit also says Williams had admitted to associates that she took Mobley from a Jacksonville, Florida, hospital and raised her in South Carolina.

That admission led to another anonymous tip to the centre, the documents show.

“The … suspect stated that she renamed the victim as Alexis Kelli Manigo, and claims her as her daughter,” the affidavit reads.

Williams is now being held without bail in a Jacksonville jail, and also faces a charge of interference with custody in addition to kidnapping. There is no attorney listed for her yet.

Mobley’s biological parents, Shanara Mobley and Craig Aiken of Jacksonville, have met with their daughter since the revelation. They are still in the process of building a relationship with her, which Kamiyah Mobley has said she is open to doing.

Still, the young woman’s attorney said she is extremely upset about the loss of the only mother she has ever known, but also wants to get to know her biological family.

“She forgives her, doesn’t hold any ill will towards her,” Bamberg said of Williams. “She doesn’t love this woman any less than she did before.”

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Jason Dearen, The Associated Press