Roberts stepped behind the camera as a producer to help bring the ripped-from-the-headlines story of Kamiyah Mobley’s kidnapping to the screen. This fictionalized account stars Nicey Nash as Gloria Williams, who stole newborn Mobley from the hospital on July 10, 1998.
Williams stole the hours-old baby from the hospital when she was 33 and disguised as a nurse. Williams had suffered a miscarriage a week prior, and prosecutors believe that was her motive for stealing Mobley. Mobley found out in 2017 that Williams was not her biological mother. Mobley is played by Rayven Ferrell.
Roberts was inspired to create the film after Good Morning America covered the story. There will also be a documentary component to the film, as Roberts sits down with the now-21-year-old Mobley.
"I was so happy that she allowed us to tell her story," Roberts told Rachael Ray on The Rachael Ray Show.
She Recently Appealed Her Sentence
Lifetime's purloined By My Mother: The Kamiyah Mobley Story follows verity story of Kamiyah Mobley, UN agency Gloria Williams kidnaped in 1998 —when Kamiyah was AN baby — and raised as her girl underneath the name Alexis Kelli Manigo for eighteen years. As according by The Florida-Times Union, Williams was condemned for the kidnapping in 2018, and consistent with Florida inmate records, she's still in jail. However, she may be out comparatively before long.Per first rudiment News, Williams posed as a nurse, checked in on Shanara Mobley and her recently delivered baby, and told Shanara the baby had a fever, taking her out of the space to look at her. She then left the point of entry hospital and drove home to Walterboro, South Carolina, wherever she raised Kamiyah from infancy to adulthood. consistent with initial Coast News, Williams later claimed that she'd kidnaped Kamiyah as a result of she'd recently "suffered a devastating miscarriage"
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As according by the Post and traveller, Kamiyah did not discover the reality regarding her identity till she was sixteen, once she complete she did not have a Social Security variety to produce on employment application. Williams bust down and told her the total story, providing to show herself over to the police, however Kamiyah did not wish that. Instead, she unbroken Williams' secret for 2 a lot of years till enforcement found her.
Kamiyah told first rudiment News in 2018 that she remains involved with Williams and still calls her "mom." She visits Williams in jail, and that they decision one another usually. At an equivalent time, Kamiyah has been attending to understand her biological family. we tend to speak virtually a day," Kamiyah aforementioned.
That same year, the Florida Times-Union according that Williams took a plea deal that capped her potential sentencing at twenty two years versus the imprisonment sentence she would face if the case visited trial. She pleaded guilty to snatch and officious with a child's custody. The choose sentenced her to a most of eighteen years, however initial Coast News according that it's a lot of probably that Williams are going to be go in nearer to fourteen years. They did not provide her like thirty or forty five [years]. She'll pop out walking and talking.
In 2019, Williams appealed to possess her sentence reduced, consistent with initial Coast News. She self-filed the apppeal and referred to as the eighteen years "cruel and strange punishment" that was "disproportionate" to the crime she committed. Her charm was denied.
Per Williams' inmate record, she's presently housed at the Hernando penal facility in Brooksville, Florida. If she does not get AN early unleash, she's set to be out by a minimum of July nine, 2034. At that point she'll be sixty eight years previous and Kamiyah are going to be thirty six.