A woman who kidnapped a newborn baby and raised her for 17 years before a coincidence reunited the teenager with her family has been found guilty.
The woman, who claimed she was handed the baby at a train station after she entered into a private ‘adoption’ programme, raised the girl until she was a teenager, when by an extraordinary coincidence she became close to a fellow high school student who was her younger biological sister.
After students remarked on their physical similarity, the friend told her parents, who became convinced it was Zephany Joy Nurse, the child taken from them after its birth.
A DNA test and police investigation revealed the two friends were actually sisters.
Today, the 50-year-old woman who took Zephany from her mother’s beside in April 1997 was found guilty.
Zephany’s biological parents, Celeste and Morne, were reunited with their daughter for the first time since the abduction last year.
‘We’re over the moon,’ Morne told reporters outside the Cape Town court. ‘My daughter is back and we just have to work our way, feel our way and just be happy.’
John Ray, reporting for ITV, said that Celeste ‘burst into tears at the verdict’.
The woman, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the kidnapped girl, had said that she paid a woman to find her a baby to adopt after she had a miscarriage in 1996.
http://metro.co.uk/ source: by: Harry Readhead
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