Kamiyah Mobley, now 18, (left in main image, and right) was found alive and well in South Carolina on Friday being raised as Alexis Manigo by the woman who allegedly kidnapped her from a Florida hospital when she was a baby. The 51-year-old woman she thought was her mother, Gloria Williams, (inset right and right in main image) has been arrested and charged with kidnapping.
The teenager took to Facebook to defend Williams on Friday as news of Williams' arrest spread. 'My mother raised me with everything I needed and most of all everything I wanted,' she wrote. The mystery of Kamiyah Mobley became a national sensation when she was taken from her mother Shanara Mobley's (left) arms at the University Medical Center in Jacksonville in July 1998.