A 23-year-old girl is asking a Florida choose to cut back the jail sentence of the lady who kidnapped her as a new child and raised her beneath a false identification.
Kamiyah Mobley wrote a letter to Duval County Decide Marianne Aho asking for Gloria Williams’ sentence to be decreased from 18 years to 9 years, with 9 years’ probation, based on News4Jax.
Firstly of the letter, Mobley said that Williams “is my mom.”
“I had a well-rounded life; and I’m an impartial, college-educated, and deeply non secular individual, due to all my mother gave me,” Mobley wrote. “I’m absolutely conscious of how our lives got here to be, what they’re, and the way my mother got here to be my mother.”
Williams kidnapped Mobley from College Medical Heart, now College of Florida Well being Jacksonville, in 1998 when Mobley was just a few hours outdated. Williams then raised Mobley beneath the alias Alexis Manigo.
In 2017, Mobley submitted a DNA check to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Workplace, which confirmed that she was the identical lady who had been kidnapped in 1998. Suggestions from the Nationwide Heart for Lacking and Exploited Youngsters additionally aided within the means of discovering Mobley.
Williams pleaded responsible in 2018 and was sentenced to 18 years in jail for kidnapping and 5 years for custodial interference, based on ABC News.
Mobley met her start dad and mom in 2017. She mentioned in her letter to the choose that “none of this modifies the reality of the previous, nor does it justify my mother’s actions in any means.” She requested for the court docket’s “grace and mercy,” as she wants her mom house.
Williams additionally wrote a letter to the choose, highlighting her progress as a mannequin inmate and the varied group and faith-based applications she’s participated in.
“I’ve obtained no disciplinary experiences in anyway, and I’ve maintained an above passable ranking by each safety and in my work project efficiency issued as soon as a month by the Division of Corrections,” Williams wrote.
Whereas Mobley’s letter was postdated for Sept. 30, 2021, each Mobley’s and Williams’ letters had been submitted in December 2021 and filed collectively lately as a part of Williams’ sentence discount paperwork.
No choice has been made but by Decide Aho.