This week, Sentencing for Kamiyah Mobley’s kidnapper Gloria Williams is underway. During the sentencing, the judge and prosecutors heard from Shanara Mobley, Kamiyah’s birth mother.
Her time on the stand got quite emotional.
As WTLV-TV reports, Shanara recounted the time in the hospital. While dressed as a nurse, Gloria went into Shanara’s room and took Kamiyah. Shanara says Gloria told her she took Kamiyah to have her temperature taken. She then said Williams spent hours with her and the baby.
“She was real nice, I trusted her,” she said, “Oh my God, that woman touched me.”
Shanara feels Gloria did this to her because of her age. When she gave birth to Kaliyah, Shanara was only 15 years old.
“She preyed on a child because I was young, she preyed on a child and took my child,” said Shanara.
Shanara lastly recounted the moments of shock and horror she felt when she realized that Gloria kidnapped Kamiyah. She said she threw herself to the ground in an attempt to try to find Williams and her newborn. She said she crawled along the floor, “I’m screaming and I’m hollering and cussing.”
To this day, Shanara still deals with the shock from the kidnapping. Mobley said the wounds feel fresh and says, “It doesn’t heal now, I am still hurting. When you’re reaching out to my child. I am your mother Kamiyah. I am your mother!”
When prosecutors asked Shanara how Gloria should be sentenced, Mobley said she would recommend the death penalty if she could. However, that wasn’t on the table, so she recommended the full 22 years that Williams is facing.
Shanara said, “Because I need her away from my child. I need her far away, where she can’t contact my baby. Where my baby can’t even get to her.”
Check out Shanara’s full testimony below.
This is such a sad situation. I feel for any parent who has to go through this.
After Kamiyah and her dad showed their a-ses on Fix My Life the only person I feel sorry for is her biological mother.