Newborn Abducted Found Alive 18 Years Later

Imagine finding out that your life is a complete lie. Kamiyah Mobley, an 18 year old girl's, life got flipped upside down today (Friday) when she found out that her mom was really her abductor. This investigation started back up after there were tips of it last year, so the FBI assisted in finding her. When she was found, she got a DNA test done and it confirmed that she was, in fact, the baby abducted 18 years earlier by a woman posing as a worker at the hospital. The woman who abducted her, Gloria Williams, was taken into custody for having a connection to the abduction. Where she was charged with kidnapping. As for Kamiyah, at this point "She is taking it as well as you could imagine", says the Sheriff. Of course her biological parents and other family were overwhelmed and excited to hear the news of her reappearance. Kamiyah seems to be a normal, healthy 18 years old women. This case is very unusual and there hasn't been one like it in a long time. Kamiyah was abducted on July 10th, 1998 by a woman dressed in scrubs. She was caught on a hospital’s surveillance camera. Kamiyah’s biologic mother sued the former University Medical Center and was awarded 1.5 million dollars after the disappearance of her daughter.

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Questions

After hearing about Kamiyah's life, what would you be thinking if you were in her position?

If you were in Kamiyah's biological position how would you feel?

My Answers

I honestly can't imagine being put in this situation. It is crazy to think that you're life could change like that at anytime. If i were in Kamiyah's position I would probably be overwhelmed and anxious to meet my REAL family. If I were her mother I would be super mad at Gloria because a child is a super important person in someone’s life. I would also just be like happy to meet my daughter.

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  • Great job overall but I do think you could have replied a few more times.

  • If the situation were to happen to me, I would be shocked. I would start to get paranoid about losing another important person in my life because they weren't who I thought they were. If I were her parents I would be so happy that they found their daughter, but also sad that they had to miss so much of her life. I would also be furious with Gloria for stealing my child while impersonating a nurse and causing my family emotional trauma because of the whole situation. I would also want to talk to Gloria to try and understand why she did what she did.

  • I would feel like me whole life was a lie. I would probably either kill myself or kill the kidnapper. I would feel empty and like I had no purpose.

    And yes, I know I am extreme. 

  • I'd be thinking 'this live ive had was all a lie? Why would someone kidnap me at birth?'But i would have repressed those thoughts and  focus on the positive, which is i get to see my biological family, this is overwhelming. Life can change at any point in time, much like for younger children, whose parents either die of an illness, or unknown circumstances or leave for an extended time, months or years, (example: Edward and Alphonse Elric, from the anime, Fullmetal alchemist, its a really good show. Anyway, their mom dies unexpectedly, and their father leaves them, knowing that they would be better off with their mother, not knowing that their mother died a few months after he had left. Eventually, their  father comes back, and its not a very happy day for Edward, because reasons, but for Alphonse, its a happy day, because he barely saw his dad, because he was very little when he left them. Although i cannot talk about anime too much on this thing, i thought it was the perfect example for the situation i explained above)

  • I would be super happy to be able to know that you have found out, but at the same time be super freaked out that you didn't get to live your life with your biological family. I would be mad that anyone would want to steal me from my true family and pose as it until the FBI finally found her. 

    • I do find it crazy that this woman didn't realize that someday the police, or FBI in this case, would come after her. I wonder if she didn't know that there were security cameras or what. 

  • I would feel absolutely overwhelmed if this happened, and I wouldn't really know what's real or not real anymore. Hopefully I'd find comfort in having a loving family that is (hopefully, I'd think) my real family. I'd also feel anxious to meet my real family, whom I never knew. If I were her mother, I would be very mad at Gloria for stealing my daughter, but also overjoyed to finally have my daughter back. (BTW, am I the only one who was reminded of the movie Tangled when I read this story?)

  • I would be so overwhelmed at knowing that who I thought was my family wasn't my real family and my whole life had been a lie. I wouldn't be able to go on with my life knowing that my "mother" had kidnapped me from a hospital from my real mother. If I was the biological parents I would have been so mad and sad that someone took my child from me. I also would have been so relieved when I found out that my child was okay and safe. 

  • Well if I found out that my mother that I had been living with my whole life actually kidnapped me when I was young I would be scared and confused. I would question my life and wonder why this lady that kidnapped me decided to raise me as their child instead of do something bad to me. I would just feel weird about the whole thing. I was her parent I would feel relieved and happy that my child was finally found and is still alive and safe. 

  • I would be very shocked, surprised, and scared at the same time. If I was her parent I would feel very relieved that my child was found safe. 

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