tearful moments in court for the mother
of Kamiya Mobley as her daughter's
admitted kidnapper faces up to 27 years
in prison even after two decades the
pain is still fresh from that crime back
in 1998 footage from the news for Jax
vault shows the baby girl's biological
mother making a public plea for the
return of her newborn today her grown-up
daughter who now goes by the name of
Alexis man ago sat in the back of the
courtroom and showed no sign she is
taking sides and this is video of Anago
leaving court about an hour ago we've
learned she will not be taking the stand
the 20 year old has defended Gloria
Williams in the past even pleading for
leniency Williams had been raising mad
ago as her own daughter in South
Carolina until she was arrested in
January of last year for nearly nine
hours today the court heard from family
and friends who described how this
kidnapping and long-running mystery has
caused them excruciating emotional
hardship news for Jax reporter Scott
Johnson and Janice Harris have been
inside the courtroom all day
we begin with Jenice an Alexis man ago
has been fairly quiet throughout the
entire day in fact I asked her if she
wanted to make a comment at the end of
the day and she declined however inside
of that courtroom when you began to hear
testimony from her biological family and
the family that raised her you began to
see emotion out of Alexis and many other
people in the room she would cry as well
as Gloria Williams over and over again
Gloria Williams stole Shania Mobley's
first child in 1998 when Williams
pretended to be a nurse Mobley's Payne
rang out in court today she was supposed
to be nursed she was in oh my god
pain that brought Williams to tears
Williams Secret has hurt many people
Williams named the baby Alexis and lied
to this man telling him he was the
father
and giving her his last name man ago
unbelievable pain unbelievable pain at
all
you know I mean days days I haven't
slept I haven't slept last time on the
way down I don't even know what to say
just a betrayal and a hurt Gloria
Williams mother Gloria Braun said she
didn't know her daughter was living a
lie but she wants Williams out of jail a
mention of her failing health brings
Williams to tears a pastor at the local
church in South Carolina defense
Williams too is a loving caring
god-fearing woman Kamiya's biological
father wants Williams to stay in prison
for the maximum sentence but you've got
to pay for what you did Williams father
agrees she must pay the price for
kidnapping Kamiya Mobley it was hard to
understand why she did it but far as my
life changing I didn't change he said
he'd do the crime you got to do the time
a judge will now decide that time and
the hearing begins tomorrow around 10
a.m. we're expected to hear even more
testimony tomorrow laughter the Duval
County Courthouse chinees Harris channel
4 the local station Thank You junice
we're also hearing from a number of
other people touched by the case
everyone from Police Detectives to
Gloria Williams old boyfriend who paid
years of child support
thinking Alexis man ago was his daughter
News 4 Jax reporter Scott Johnson joins
us live from the Duval County Courthouse
now scott mhairi this was affecting so
many people hundreds and hundreds of
people literally had to get involved in
a case which is finally now being
resolved here 20 years later police
spent well over a decade trying to find
out what happened to the baby girl who
was kidnapped from this Jacksonville
hospital in 1998 that included one of
the original detectives who says they
got around 3,000 tips but no real leads
for years so required every single
detective to abandon whatever they were
doing and essentially tracked down each
one of these leads and when I say track
down a leak I'm talking about to the end
so it required a lot of travel
a lot of investigations the impact of
this kidnapping also really affected the
biological family velma akin is the
girl's biological grandmother she says
she was in the hospital when Williams
pretending to be a nurse kidnapped the
baby when I was going in she was on her
way going out with the baby in her arms
and so I said wake her mama baby going
she said a baby had to go for a test
I'll be back in 15 minutes
I said what girl mama just got here I
need to see my grandbaby but moments
later the woman she thought was a nurse
was gone with her granddaughter and now
20 years later she faces that woman
again but not in a hospital room in a
courtroom and that grandmother Jenice
echoed something a lot of family members
of Kamiya Mobley the Mobley side of this
said was that they've really been under
suspicion for 20 years people thinking
they may have had something to do with
us until Alexis Kamiya was finally found
that's true the family has suffered a
lot they've been accused of doing
something that they didn't do and all
they wanted was their child back guys
are gonna send it back to you in the
studio
Scott Denise take us through what's
expected in court tomorrow on day two of
Williams sentencing hearing
Jenice the big thing I took away from
this is that alexis is not going to
testify that was the thing we were
hoping for but we found that out today
she is not going to talk instead they're
going to use interviews that were
previously completed that they're going
to use basically as Alexis testimony if
you will but Gloria Williams is expected
to testify tomorrow and we expect that
to be sometime between 10:00 and 10:30
of course we'll stream it live on news
for Jax comm back to you will there be a
sentence tomorrow we hope I know the
judge originally said it won't be today
right but tomorrow very positive judge
has the ability to do that but typically
a judge will take at least a day or two
to think through all of the testimony
that they have heard
and then make a decision 'yes i have
been in many cases where the judge at
the end of it we expect a sentence then
they come back saying i need more time
to think about this i'll go back to you
in two weeks so we'll have to wait and
see just been a riveting case Janissa
scott thank you so much