Kamiyah Mobley made these revelations and more in her first interview since 52-year-old Gloria Williams was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Friday.
Since the woman who raised her was arrested last year, Mobley says they continue to speak several times a week on the phone from jail.
'We actually talked today. I still do call her "Mom,"' Mobley told ABC News.
And the relationship is still very much mother-daughter.
'Oh yeah, she calls and still gets on me. Yes, she does,' Mobley added.
Mobley was just a few hours old in July 1998 when Williams snatched her from a Jacksonville, Florida maternity ward.
Williams had suffered a miscarriage a month before and drove Mobley to South Carolina where she passed her off as her own.
Mobley's biological mother, Shanara Mobley, was just 16 years old when her daughter was ripped from her. She and the teen's father, Craig Aiken, never stopped looking for their daughter, though they eventually split up.
Mobley says she's visited her biological parents and siblings several times since Williams was arrested last year.
'I've gone to Florida several times ... and I call them. We talk almost every day" she said.
She added: 'I like it. It's new people who act just like you, they look just like you. It's almost just like extended family. You know, that's really what it feels like.'
However, Mobley she continues to live in Williams' home in South Carolina and says she looks forward to the day she is released from prison. Mobley says she thinks Williams' sentence of 18 years in prison was 'fair,' despite her biological mom telling DailyMail.com that she hoped the woman would be executed.
Mobley says she's glad that the trial is over.
'I actually got closure now,' she said. 'Everything is done. No more court. No more back and forth.'
She says she looks forward to the day that Williams is released from prison. She says she realizes people don't understand how she can maintain a relationship with the woman who raised her, but she doesn't care. She says Williams was a good mother to her.
'She was very open to all my friends I brought through that door,' Mobley said. 'She was one of those mothers, she was like open to sleepovers, open to company. Always smiling, always upbeat, up-tempo about everything. Very hard working, very hard working. She was actually getting her master's [degree] before she was incarcerated.'
Mobley, who graduated from high school in 2016, says she's been busy starting her new life - doing paperwork, getting her social security number, birth certificate and studying for her driver's license. She says she hopes to go to college someday.
'Who wants to sit around and be sad all day?' she said. 'I mean, it doesn't help anything. It's not going to change anything. I learned that a long time ago.'from dailymail
*I feel so sorry for the woman sent to jail but her action destroyed the lives of everyone involved...Mobley's parents split cos of this and Mobley and her real parent might never get along cos of her closeness to the only woman she has known to be ''Mum'' all her life....
Chai! How can she break that bond. It's nearly not possible.
ReplyDeleteWhere is Ola wealth ooooooooo.
ReplyDeleteIgho
DeleteThe woman is wicked indeed.
ReplyDeleteyou just dont judge people like that and call them wicked, agreed that what she did was wrong...let's think of the good she did as well
DeleteI wish she was given a lighter sentence since she was a good mum
ReplyDeleteMeaning? Do you know what it feels like given birth and another woman will snatch your child from you? The trauma? God forbid! She's heartless,she deserves to die
DeleteDeath by lethal injection would not be enough for her. She messed up those people’s lives including the girl’s too. Everybody keep saying she raised her well. Do you know the girl was fighting the birth parents at some point over money raised during the search for her as a baby? She believes that money belongs to her but the parents spent most of it when they ran into tough times before they eventually split up. Do you know all the things they went thorough? The father turned to alcohol at some point. This girl knew she was kidnapped few years earlier but never said anything. She started doing her research until she came info that some money was being raised for her back then. We’re not even sure if she would have ever come out or given the kidnapper up if not for that. She’s a teenage mum already, not going to school, has anger and attitude issues etc. that woman really messed her up and what she did to her birth parents can never be recovered from. That woman can rot in jail and the girl needs help, a whole lot of help
DeleteHer last statement says it all about her and the woman that raised her! The woman actually raised her right.
ReplyDelete'Who wants to sit around and be sad all day?' she said. 'I mean, it doesn't help anything. It's not going to change anything. I learned that a long time ago.'
This here is also for those who thinks the world or mother earth has forsaken them.
That child wasn’t raised right, she has a lot of anger issues and she is so disrespectful. Watch her interview with Iyanla. I pray she finds healing because she is so confused and lost.
DeleteSo iyanla still exists? Wow! I loved watching her back then
DeleteThe end doesn't justify the means. Why steal another woman's bundle of joy to fulfill your own need? She should have just adopted a baby and none of this rubbish and heartache won't have occurred.
ReplyDeleteDon't mind the wicked woman
DeleteWhat she did is very bad but I still feel so sorry for her, I wish they can just reduced her sentence
ReplyDeleteMixed feelings...
ReplyDeleteReminds me of the series 'finding carter'
ReplyDeleteReminds me of Switched at Birth. Although unlike Switched at Birth, this one was a win-lose situation. It's well.
DeleteThis girl is in an emotional dilemma and might be for a while longer. The woman deserved whatever she got and more. Her sentencing which should have been "life" by the way will send a strong message to others like her. You don't sow depression into people's lives because you are depressed. She should have gone to see a shrink instead of stealing another woman's child.
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