18-Year-Old Kidnapped at Birth Speaks Out for First Time
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- Alexis Manigo talks to ABC News' Eva Pilgrim about her reunion with her biological parents and the arrest of the woman who raised her, Gloria Williams, on kidnapping charges.
I really don't see why people are taking up for the kidnapper as if she didn't commit a crime. Yes she raised her to be a wonderful young lady, but at the same time she took someone else's child from them. She took her real parents 18 years of love, joy and care with (their child). She robbed her from what her real life with her real parents would have been. Hopefully she grows closer with her real family. The kidnapper deserves to spend at least 5/10 years for what she did.
***** exactly!
Yes! And I'm sure everyday she is talking to the kidnapper, the woman is reassuring her how much she loves her, manipulating her further. There's no way from this interview the girl realizes the magnitude of her feeling that love for the kidnapper as 'stolen' from her real parents. Man I'd be pissed knowing every bday I had, my real parents were grieving, while the kidnapper held in the nasty secret.
ali_young21 right. Like I don't know how these two families will come together and just get along as one since she does have two families now. But this whole story is crazy.
Nesha Britwood not to mention that a person who plans, drives miles away, walks into a hospital, and walks out with someone's baby, is most certainly a deeply emotionally disturbed individual.
Nesha Britwood People from the outside always judge standing from where? The outside. No one knows how it feels to be this girl right now. I indeed feel bad for her biological parents as well as for her. We also don't know how the woman she calls mom felt when she miscarried and did a desperate act as to take a baby. Everyone in a desperate situation does desperate things to alleviate a situation. The only person who is qualified on this earth to judge anyone is God for only he knows the hearts of men and women. As an adopted child now an adult, I feel exactly what she is going through: torn between families. I hope that her biological parents don't speak ill will of the woman she calls mom because they may push her away forever. There's a lot of healing and emotion that everyone is going through. Peace
She sounds like an intelligent young woman. But her "mom" has to face the consequences of her actions
Intelligent? Could be, but not displayed in her statements. The statements come from not being able to accept what's happened, and admitting this as well stating, "I don't want to think about what happened. One day will come when I will."
She admits she doesn't want to deal with it, hence the "thinking she's a mom" still is her viewpoint.
+John Williams she's the one that got the inquiry started because of trouble getting a driver's license and registering to vote. she couldn't. her paper work was forged. she's intellegent, and very poised for a shocked 18 year old. hopefully on her way to college. and Birth Mother and Mom or Mama don't always equate to the same person. her Birth Mother never had the chance to show what kind of mom she would have been. on the other hand. her birth father should have been in jail when she was born . a 25 yr old man having sex with a 16 yr old girl. where were her parents at?????
She literally admitted to saying that she knows her "mom" has to face the charges.
Keyona Johnson she is her kidnapper not mom
she is her kidnapper....very true but growing up she was not aware of that so emotionally no matter how it came to be in Lexie's eyes that woman is her mother.
thank God that even though she kidnapped her she was very good to her, I'm just saddened for her biological family but at the same they now know she's healthy and happy.
razer tazer I feel sad for her non-biological dad. He lost his wife, and then his daughter. He had no idea.
bearisol a crime was kidnapped and this is what slavery did to black people. We were stolen, separated, kidnapped, from our kin, and conditioned to just accept it.
Golden Streets wait...what does that have to do with what I said?
bearisol It could be that I commented to the wrong person. I read so many of them, but my reference to Slavery goes back to crimes done towards black people meant nothing in this country. Now my apologies to my post on your comment. Share with me again with what you said. So, that I can reply correctly!
Golden Streets I just said how sad I was for her non-biological father because he lost his wife and daughter and he had no idea she was kidnapped
“She loved for me for 18 years”
“She cared for me for 18 years”
ME: yeah but she also kidnapped you for 18 years
You dont understand😒
yeah, but what do you typically see out of kidnapping? missing or dead. She was raised by the woman, so she cares for her.
Love your comment ! That’s the deal right there.
Yea that reminds me of the mom from tangled smh
Girl. SHE RAISED HERRRR
I have mixed feelings about this. I applaud Alexis for how strong she is in this, but something bugged me.
"From that one mistake, I was given the best life!"
Yes, that may be very very true, but it wasn't supposed to be her! Your parents were waiting 9 months to give you that life. They're the ones who had all those dreams for you, they're the ones who dreamt of your future, while you were still the size of a pin. I mean, they're the reason you're alive...Not the woman who took you away. All the life you were living, while your biological parents were devastated thinking that it was lost forever.
I almost feel like she hasn't really considered her biological parents' role in this disaster. I'm not being unsympathetic, this is just a trainwreck...
TorgieBride85 so true. Plus, it wasn’t just “one mistake.” It was knowingly breaking the law for 18 years. She was lying every single day to her “daughter.” Poor baby. She’s probably so mixed up right now.
I actually read more details of this story and the way things turned out may have been the best for everyone. Let me explain. The biological mom just turned 16 when she had her, and the biological father was in jail. this girl would’ve been raised in a very dysfunctional, toxic, unloving environment with no father figure and would’ve probably been abused. Yes it’s sad for the biological mom that she lost her child, but let’s be honest when you’re 16 you’re still a kid and are most likely in no position to raise a child. On the other hand the kidnapper was a lady who just had a miscarriage a couple days prior (which was her motive), and the daughter said she was raised with love.
Young Fu that’s a really good point. Thanks for sharing
Young Fu I read your entire comment, and I appreciate the kinds of comments like this that don't argue with vulgar language.
But, I think it's rather rude to blatantly say she would've been raised in an unloving environment. I agree the situation she ended up growing up in, is probably better for a child's development, but I'm also saying poverty/depression kids can do fine too. With plenty of love along the way. Might not be from Mom and Dad per say, but love can come from everywhere! Sorry to sound cliche, 😃
TorgieBride85 My personal viewpoint is the most important and genuine love comes from the authority figure, the person you look up to, the person who raised you, the person who you’re supposed to trust, but you’re right, I am only speculating what the environment would’ve been like without any real evidence and that assumption is unfair to the biological mom. she could’ve turned out absolutely fine.
She cost another family 18yrs of pain. Unfortunately she has to pay for it and unfortunately the daughter is also going to pay for it..
And the biological parents are still going to suffer a lot, because their long lost daughter they loved and missed since her birth is a stranger now, and calls someone else her "mom".
18 years of pain? I doubt that, probably moved on after a few years.
Chrispy That's not how it works.
Annie's Ok its just make me sick idgaf how mature she speaking I can careless its the total disrespect this girl has why she keep calling this bitch her mother after all this why she still trying to see her like what she did is ok, maybe someone need to abduct her baby and she can understand what her REAL parents went through this whole story and her attitude about this whole situation is fucked up
+Justicelyric How could you even say that shit, shes a fucking child, if you were raised by someone and loved someone for 20 years you cant let all those memories go away just like that.
why didn't she adopt a baby if at all she is a good person?
Muniira Ali desperate I don't know
She is obviously not a good person.
Muniira Ali what makes it worse is the kidnapper had other kids gready bitch could have waited!!
Shaina Joanae Where did you get that? I thought she had a miscarriage
DekuNii she had a miscarriage the weeks before she kidnapped but she also has other children
When Finding Carter happens in real life 😂
Sal Hunter i was thinking the same thing 😅
Sal Hunter my first thought tbh
Sal Hunter OMG I was just thinking that 😂😂😂😂
Sal Hunter That's what I was thinking. I wish this young woman and her family the best.
Sal Hunter
She is the new rupunzel
yes she was loving...but she had no regard for the family she stole her from.
She met the people and doesnt fit into their life. Its a whole different lifestyle. She thinks of it as she was taken very from what would've been a very hard life with a teen mom to having a stable life with who took her. To me and in many other womens lives we cant imagine our children any other way but ours but I think she feels some kind of divine intervention gave her a better life than what she would've had. It doesnt excuse it or make it right but Im sure all she knows is she didnt feel connected to her bio mom, her bio mom acted awfully to her because the bond wasnt there and she just wants who she loved as mom. Under these circumstances I'd thank god she was alive, be in her life in some capacity, find forgiveness and even thank the woman for taking care of her since there are worse outcomes that could've happened and ask for leniency on the woman who took her. I feel like you kind of have to in this situation, shes a grown woman now, not a toddler and everyone needs healing in this situation. The hospital owes the bio mom, and let Alexis be Alexis. I hate that it happened but come on you cant change her name now, good lord. Sad all around.
J Mac ... *I agree with you 100% and it's not Alexis' fault.... Because the mother she grew up with is the only mother she's known❗....... Something else they need to remember....is the mother who took her could very well have been suffering a Mental Health breakdown following her miscarriage❗️....... We don't know but I do feel for both her and the biological mother as well❗️*
OKAY
Imagine if your mother who raised you and loved you turns out to be someone else who had stolen you from your parents many years ago?! It is the worst feeling ever and you can't hate her no matter what.
I know she can't help but love the women that raised her but she has to see the evil in what she did and the pain she caused her real mother and family.
not that simple
My gues is as soon she has a baby of her own she will see the bigger picture.
Agreed
noneya123 hope she can embrace her real parents. Heart breaking for them ❤️❤️
It isn't that simple if my mom told me right now that she took me from someone when I was just a new born I couldn't hate for that because she's treated me like a princess in a castle she's never harmed me in no way
What a brave young woman! Even if she was abducted she turned out to be very poised and intelligent. At the end not everything was bad.
of course it is bad, her parents lost a life time with their child, nothing can replace all they have loss.
yea, but at the end of the day she took that child away from her real family. She doesn't even have a real connection with them because she was kidnapped. The kidnapper was wrong for that.
loolikyl0005 moo
The statements the victim made in this video come from not being able to accept what's happened, and admitting this as well stating, "I don't want to think about what happened. One day will come when I will."
She admits she doesn't want to deal with it, hence the "thinking she's a mom" still is her viewpoint.
@loolikyl0005 True, I agree with you :)
Girl she stole you !
Im saying. I know that lady is allyou know but sonewhere inside you gitta besaying what the fu#@/&&
Put yourself in her shoes...it’s easy to say that but come on man....this wasn’t her fault.
@Green
NO, NO, NO, NO.......she should call her abductor, thief, criminal, low-life BUT not Mommy!!!! Smh
Period
Yeah she did but she treated her right and gave her a home
It's okay to love the woman who stole her....but, she really needs to gravitate towards her biological parents. Her biological parents deserve a chance to love her like the kidnapper did
Finally. A sane comment.
The biological parents only have a chance if they are kind and understanding. There is a good chance they will simply be demanding and unsympathetic like so many commentators here. I hope this young woman finds people to love her, but there's little chance it will be parents who think they own her and are angry at her for not acting like they want her to act.
jhg66466 exactly. some of the replies are so unreasonable because they’re so filled with anger.
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Adira Yasharahla what is up baby girl
Sounds like Lexi smokes 10 pacs a day
Or her throat is soar from crying
Holly Dickson 😀😂😂😂😂
I bet she has been crying alot
I’m laughing so hard to this comment 😂😂😂😂
@ms evon thyroid don't do that hun
That would be a very difficult situation to be in.
On one end, you have a woman that you've called mom for 18 years and who you love dearly. Your mom actually kidnapped you as a child, but she is all you know. On the other hand, you have two complete strangers who you know are your biological parents but you've never spent time with them.
The mother who raised you goes to jail, everybody says she's a horrible person, and yet you feel guilty because she's still your mommy.
Then you have your biological parents, people you had no clue about who are the cause of your mother getting locked up. You feel guilty because you love them also.
I'm saying this as what I would feel if I was in her shoes. I'm not condoning her being kidnapped, but I'm also not condoning complete erasing of fond (to her) memories.
Stephanie Mukai
You are not condoning complete erasing of fond (to her) memories??
First of all, the brain cannot erase trauma memories.
Secondly, not condoning it? Eventually, accepting her trauma in time will warp memories into a mish mash of "fond recall" of bits and pieces of the past while at the same time "sickening feeling of puking".
She's getting plenty now. All that'll happen is in time they'll appear less and less.
@john Williams look your only calling it trauma cause you know the situation but that young women doesn't (till recently) so all this traumatic event crap it's only traumatic if its trauma but if she was literally raised by the women that is her mom I'll put it like this how do you know your mom didn't kidnapped you? I doubt you got a DNA test done most people don't cause they have no reason to but if tomorrow someone told you the person who raised you and we'll for that matter is not your mom it would make no difference to you especially at 1st the difference between this and the usual kidnapping story is that the person taken has a kidnapping experience that they recall she can't because she was an infant when it happened before she could even identify her bio mom so as far as she's concerned her kidnapper is just a loving parent not to say the women shouldn't do time but it's not at all simple
Love is the answer
Stephanie Mukai When she has her own child, she'll understand better.
I don't think she feels guilty for them because she loves them but because she should have known them. She barely knew them at that point I doubt she loved them yet
I think if one day she becomes a mother, she may change her mind on the issue. She may have the ability to put herself in the situation as her biological mother and think about what it feels like if someone kidnaps her own children.
highly doubt that would change her mind. That kidnapper is her mom that is never going to change regardless of the situation. You need to put yourself in Alexis shoes and think if you found out her mom wasn't your mother would that change the way you feel about her.
ofcourse!!!...this is not the same as finding out a sibling isn't really your's biologically...a woman stole you from another woman...stole a child from it's mother and raised it as if it were her own..that is fkin disgusting...having a child WOULD change her mind...she probably has some kind of stockholm syndrome..
If I found out my mother committed an evil crime; how the fuck wouldn't that change how I feel about her?! Of course I'd still love her, but to act like it's perfectly fine to still think about her positively is INSANE
I'm in hopes of that as well.
I know is a confusing time for her but this woman stole 18 years of this girl's life from her actual parents and there should be justice for those people. She has to understand that at some point.
And the woman behind bars needs to stop pushing her towards these feelings and explain to her that she has to face the consequences
mrmvpvip ..Good point. I would hope so.
She needs to understand that,that lady is a very evil cruel person. This person is not her mom. She needs to pay for what she did. This lady was evil from the beginning ,she had to treat her great and pretend to love her so she would never get busted. She's not a saint like this girl is making her out to b. If abusing a child was legal this lady wld have treated this girl horrible knowing she cld get away with it. But knowing that she cld get in trouble and busted on abuse she clearly faked love to try n never get caught being a baby stealer.
Heidi Rucker Are you God? Do you know her heart? Did you live with them? What she did was indeed wrong, but to consistently make harsh attacks on her isn't right either. Praying for her is the best thing to do. Hate begats hate; love begats love. Peace
Heidi Rucker crazy ass white lady
Oh sure, Heidi is the one deserving of "attack" while you defend the thug, smart and humane.
And thug is correct, she has committed other crimes as well. Why is that mentioned? Because she's a thug living the thug life, so course a kidnapping is expected behavior.
Do you know her heart? Do YOU know the "criminal mind"? Obviously not, and indicates you're a lay person and have no experience in it nor education in the topic of criminal behavior. If you had, you'd know THERE IS NO HEART TO "KNOW".
The thug cannot even know what "love" is, she gave the victim a "fake, pretend love" purposely to "hurt her"knowing she'd likely discover the kidnapping at some point, and wanted to crush her to death with it, as well as repeatedly, "looking into her victims's trusting eyes" in the meantime as they share moments together and thinking, "Good trust me.....I take away your love of your real mother and I gloat in the fact I stole your love from her. I DEPRIVE YOU MISSY OF THE VERY THING YOU WERE BORN TO NEED AND HAVE AND NOW IT'S GONE....HOPE YOU LIKE THE PAIN, BITCH!!! I see the pain you'd feel in your eyes if you knew this and I want more of it - why do you think I take a baby?? To hurt you by depriving you of your family. I want to deprive you of your family the way I was deprived of love from my own mother - why do you think I've committing other crimes?? I feel tossed aside and abused by my mother so now I must make up for it by PUNISHING YOU, MY LITTLE PRETTY PIECE OF CRAP!...how does THAT feel, little missy??? And you love me for it??? Good, keep loving me for taking your family from you while I compensate from my own hurtful childhood. And if/when this secret you discover, should I go to prison, the sentence will likely be light and hopefully so, I will be counting the days when I can return to the streets and find another baby!"
Every hug from the thug, is filled with these thoughts and more sickening statements in their mind, and loving every second of it.
Again, people like this aren't even capable of love - they steal kids to inflict hurt on purpose on the child, period. There's no such thing as what you're proposing, that she "just made an innocent mistake because just wanted love".
Again, she has a criminal record for a reason. The criminal mind that exists in a person who has trouble obeying the law exists because they've been corrupt their whole lives. They see "normal behavior", such as what's needed to live a life free of law breaking, as despicable - they hate "normalcy" and "normal people". In their conversations with "other thugs", when they don't feel the need "to pretend to be normal when around normal people" contains sickening statements of "boasting" about committing crimes as well as thoughts about "future crimes they can commit". They spend much of their "private time" engaged in such thoughts.
Sometime, rather than speaking from gibberish you picked up somewhere and/or thinking it just "made sense", you should study abnormal psychology and the criminal mind as people like myself have, you'd be surprised how these weirdos think. What I stated above is taken right from mouths of kidnappers like this woman. And yes, they all have this thinking and even worse for many.
What is stated above is WHY they do it. Some will add more, and also torture and/or kill the child as well.
Btw, It's people like you that make lenient laws like we have for many crimes, stating that "thinking harshly" of the thug is wrong and then acting on it on top of it is "somehow wrong" as well.
Care about the victim infant and her "family being stolen from her" instead of caring about "what the thug thinks and her needs" might be.
Infants are all that matters here, period. Any thug and "their needs" is not to be even considered - the innocent child is the only thing important here.
These "human rights" were taken from her :
"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" is a well-known phrase in the United States Declaration of Independence. The phrase gives three examples of the "unalienable rights" which the Declaration says have been given to all human beings by their Creator, and which governments are created to protect."
These rights were taken away from her - and the sick thug gave her a "fake life" in place of it.
And another "right" she has, from birth, is justice for the crime - that being death.
Death is all this thug deserves, and if I could do it myself I'd shoot her bitching face right off and love the splattered blood.
I don't think that would make any sense... I don't see why she would go through the trouble to kidnap a child to only do harm? that's not likely and apparently was cared for, for 18 years ... why would care for a child that's not hers for 18 years ... and not only that but kidnap her I don't believe her intentions were to cause cruelty to the child. I just believe her guardian mother was a desperate women who couldn't have children of her own and wanted one and decided to just kidnap the child from the hospital... she cared for and nurtured her when she didn't have to because she truly felt the child was hers cause that's what she wanted !!! although what she did was wrong and not right .
jestina pinnocke I agree
God imagine being the real mother finally getting your child back after all those years of dreaming of that day and then when it actually happens, your daughter isn't really bothered and more upset over her fake mother going to jail. All the hate you'd have for that woman who kidnapped your baby, yet your daughter ends up siding and loving her more.! 😥
I feel it was wrong to
Well duh. Cause that fake mother raised her right. Who knows maybe if it was her real mother she could of actually been something else. Like a killer. Anything else. Yeah it's sad but she grew up with the fake mother. The real mother should understand why she did take the fake ones side. Ya know
Artymations Kiba .... errr, calm down luv, is there any need for the passive aggressive reply? Everyone is allowed to have an opinion and we don’t all have to agree
Snowball 99 U DUNT KNOW MAH OPIOOONNDNSNSNSMDM ok
Artymations Kiba .. thankfully I don’t want to know your opinion, however I don’t actually need to know because I can guess what your opinion is from the way you replied in your first comment
She will understand her biological mothers pain when she gives birth to a child. Until then...she wont. Shes ina position where she was groomed to love her manipulator. Its not her fault. But oh so painful for her biological mother. I dont know whats more hurtful, her knowing her baby was stolen or finding her and knowing she may never understand her journey as a mother.
Natasha S. Right
Finally, a reasonable comment
FACTS!!!!
Natasha S. exactly
nataha s i e gree whith you.
This is a very complicated situation
Yeah, lots of psychological problems to work through from what the kidnapper did.
Wow! My baby will be 18 this year and I can only imagine the horror and pain that mom went through for EIGHTEEN years! While that girl loves her "mom", she Has to understand why her real family want justice.
I love her voice. It's like scratchy and animated.
_ Exclusive.Angel _ I like but it seems like she has a cold sore which would annoy me in real life!!!! 😂😂😭😭😍😍❤❤✨✨
+Jen Broccoli! she sounds like an actress from a time bace. Lauren Bacall. My great neice sounds like that too. she doesn't have a cold.
Jen Broccoli! Do you realize that a cold sore has nothing to do with your voice?
l bet she sounds like someone in her biological family and never knew it.
+Kimayra Mobley Do you realize your name is basically just like the name the biological parents named her at birth?
The "lady who took care of her" needs to be in jail. Her poor birth mother... I can only imagine how she's feeling as her daughter speaks so highly of the woman who took her from her. I just watched her on FIX MY LIFE and as young as she is, she shows a totally different side of herself
I think the girl should be allowed to love who raised her and her biological family. Those are her feelings and they should be valid. The abductor didn’t abuse the child she abused their family and the biological mom which is why she should pay. But people shouldn’t force the girl not to have a relationship with the only love and mother she has ever known... that’s wrong. And maybe she should go by both names if she wants. The girl’s feelings should matter
I agree with you. Kamiyah should be number one in this. Nothing will fix this for the birth mom and dad. They could give her the death penalty, but the bond between Gloria Williams and Kamiyah will never be broken. That's what is killing the birth mom. That young lady is going to visit that lady in prison and be there when she gets out because that's her mom. Like it or not. Whoever does the job gets the title. Plus she knew when she was abducted when she was 16. She was probably looking at them on facebook the whole time saying "nah, I'm good." because from her own mouth her life was just fine. That does not diminish her birth parents pain. I hate that she was kidnapped. Let the courts give justice and give Kamiyah the space and respect she deserves.
She can't live with the kidnapper... she will be in jail!
Ni Ni exactly that is the key point. Can't change what has been done the kidnap the 18 years of bonding under another identity andthe fact that she loved her as mom that kills the birth mother soul she was better off staying with that family locking her up won't change a damn thing she gave her everything a child could ask for where she won't want or need for nothing that is what was stolen from the birth parent
Gloria Williams is sick
Precisely
she's so strong. I would have been balling crying the entire interview.
I'm crying now watching it. how horrific
Her voice sounds as if she's been crying alot
L B I wouldn't have been balling but BAWLING yes I would
L B stfu u soft lil nigga
Wow! What a story. This is the only person, she really knows. I'm glad this young lady was well taken care of, but she was kidnapped. SMH!
Taken care of? Nope, she was given a false love and it was faked. Felons do not experience love nor do they know what love is, they see how the "normal people do it" so they copy it.
John Williams what are you talking about💀 so felons are just fish? Their not human in any way possible right? They have no idea what love is right? So all the inmates who actually love their moms or families and stuff are just faking it JUST because they are felons? You know how dumb you sound?
Shay rodger One thing I've learned, you can't argue with Internet trolls. Lol.
Miss V exactly the same incident happened in RSA the mother got a sentence of 15years in jail.
This girl went to the same school as me. I didn't know her personally but it's crazy how this happened in my hometown. I don't know how to feel about this situation. The woman should be punished for kidnapping and making her biological parents worry for so long but at the same time Alexis loves her as a mom and she raised her well. It seems like if that woman stayed in jail it would hurt Alexis even more. But at the same time, what that woman did was terrible.
I can sympathize with how she feels about this. You can't just go from loving your mom, someone who's always been there for you and gave you a good life to instantly hating her and wanting nothing to do with her. It's a tough situation.
Was Alexis so combative at school because she is very angry
Juliet t I wish everyone would stop saying "her mom" that is not her fucking mom. No disrespect but my goodness. She ain't shit to her. No type of blood relations. She stole a kid that didn't belong to her. She love a woman she thought she knew.
Jhakeeta Moorer do you tell adopted kids to stop calling their adopted parents mom and dad too? When people say 'mom' they're talking about it on a sociological level not a biological level.
When this young lady becomes s mother I'm sure her sentiment for her abductor will be altered .. for now she is a child who will love the person who rear them no matter what.., but wait till she becomes a mother she will see this woman for who she really is .,. Evil!
There are millions of unwanted kids across the globe.. why cause another woman 18 years of pain for your own selfishness??? why?!!
Dream Catcher You just said it, for her own gain, that's horrible!!
I am a mother. I don't see her as evil. She had a stillborn child of her own. She was just desperate. It was wrong what she did but understandable. And the word evil does not apply, especially since she treated the girl with so much love and respect.
@@bootscooty It's very selfish and evil because she brought so much pain to the real parents of the girl and did not care. She should have adopted from an agency, not steal and run away...
The other parents suffered, that can't be overlooked
I feel sorry for her. I'm confused. It makes sense for her to love her mom though
Justin Osborne yes I feel very bad for the girl she must be very confused,as are her biological parents.
The kidnapper is not her mom. She is evil. She committed a very evil act. She took this baby from her mom and dad. They were left with the torture of grieving their child and not knowing if she was safe or if she was being tortured or was dead. Then when the child returns she is loyal to the only parent she has ever known of course, the kidnapper. This is like a second ripping and terrible act against the parents again. The kidnapper deserves life in prison for this. I do not care that she cared for the child well. She stole an entire lifetime from the parents who deserved it. She does not deserve any praise or lenience for this. I pray that the child is able to fall deeply in love with her real parents and that her love for her real parents is greater than the love she has ever had for this evil kidnapper.
I am not sure how anyone can have sympathy for the evil kidnapper. I understand that the child is torn between the two and loyal to the person she thought was her mother. However how can others who are not related to the story really say that this kidnapper is okay in any way.
Machine Sucks Haven't you done something evil and mean that you wished you had been forgiven for? A sin is a sin, is a sin.
Ebony C. do you not have a moral compass? It'''s almost like you can RELATE to sociopath behavior. A sin is a sin???? So lying is equal to let''s say ...child molestation.. in your mind?? I definitely think you see yourself in that monster... and yes folks that steal babies(in case you don''t know) are monsters...
I agree 150 percent. Any suffering and confusion this young woman is going through is a direct result of the selfish actions of this evil woman. Everything this woman did for Alexis, she did because she wanted to do it. Life in prison for the kidnapper.
I respect your opinion, however, the kidnapper is the person inflicting all of this suffering on the real parents and Alexis, due to her actions. There is more than one victim here. It is unfortunate that Alexis is caught in the middle, but the kidnapper is to blame for that, and no one else. How would you feel if this were your own child? This girl is obviously going to require counseling. I understand she loves the woman who raised her, but her own parents have most likely suffered tremendously, not knowing what became of their child, missing all those years. I would want to see her in prison too.
First of all who snitched
Jimmy Trues lol
Jimmy Trues 😂😂
Jimmy Trues lol 😂 she found out by herself. There's a movie staring keke palmer about her
^ the movie that keke palmer is in isn't about her, it's about another girl with a similar story
MoNae Rochester it was about the girl Carlina
You just cannot turn your heart off towards a person just because you find out something horrible about them. To want a child so badly. To steal someone's kid. I am glad to hear that she did love her and it seems like she was a very good mom. It is heartbreaking for everyone involved.
I feel so bad for the biological parents. As a mother myself, I cant imagine my child being kidnapped, then being found 18 years later and having to except that her child now has that loyalty and connection with the perpetrator. The connection that she should have had with her daughter, that was stole from her to have. 💔
Why does she talk like shes been smoking for 40 years
The grinch biatch because that's the way her voice sounds
ooh gurll
A raspy voice in a female isn't uncommon.
The grinch biatch she's been crying a lot
Don't get but hurt its an opinion lol
Oh - this little girl won't get it until she has her OWN baby! Then it's going to ring really loud in her ears what that woman did to her and her bio mom and dad.
yes i agree. so if it happen to her she would want her kid back and the child dont want her bc she a stranger...
Yes, wait until she has her own and realizes how much pain her real mom must of been in to lose her. You can't understand how much you live your child until you have one yourself
Ylva Bjarnson that's exactly what I said
Ylva Bjarnson I agree. Once she becomes a mother she will understand how awful her actions are. And for this girl knew for two years and said nothing....wow. I just don’t understand how she could continue to look at her kidnapper and pretend this didn’t happen.
Amie Lawson I do agree that it would cause a great deal of pain. But in all honesty, it didn't hurt them for 18 years. Pain fades.
you honestly cant expect her to hate the woman who raised and loved her for 18 years. she has developed a connection with her. She has a lot to process and adapt too.
She’s protecting a criminal, this child needs counseling.
Jenene Edwards no she's protecting the only mom she's ever known but i do believe she needs counseling
Everything she said makes perfect sense. In her heart that will always be her mom. 💔 What other people say or feel about her mom doesn't change how she feels.
It's clear she don't understand her boligcal mother pain. She's acting like a smart well mature adult. she needs to put herself in her boligcal mother shoes. They could have kept this interview almost came across like they trying to forget about the child being stolen from her boligcal mother. I don't wanna here shit about how well she took care of another women's child without her consent.
ashley hampton she will understand better when she becomes a mother herself. She can only see from her perspective as a child right now.
You know, you are soooo right. She will defo see things different when she has her own children in years to come.
How can she put her self in her bio moms shoes when she don't even know her and how you know she don't understand her pain if she didn't care she wouldn't try to get to know her but how can she feel attachment to a literal stranger
It's simply not that easy to the girl her biological mother is a complete stranger. Although the person she believed to be her mom was her Kidnapper she was there for her for 18 years and where as her biological parents weren't. Ok yeah if the woman hadn't kidnapped her in the first place they would've been there for her. But for a kid it matters more whether a person was there for her/him or not. You can sometimes see that in a foster child or a child of divorcée. A foster child would sometimes pick their foster parents over their biological parents especially if the foster parents were really good people. Some children would pick their stepfather or stepmother over their biological ones. So if you take these examples into account it's no wonder why she's feeling that way. But still regardless of what she feels the fact that woman kidnapped her will not change and she needs to be punished for it.
*biological
My thoughts on the woman who kidnapped Khamiyah/Alexis: She is not evil. She is sick. Evil people do not kidnap children and keep them alive to give them a good life. Sick people do that because in their warped minds they believe that what they are doing is somehow "right". It isn't right and we can all agree on that. However, I have empathy for the mentally ill mother because you can tell she did what she did out of desperation. I think she deserves to serve time, but not in prison. She needs to be in a mental institution. Being given the right medications and getting the therapy that she desperately needs. She's not a malicious woman, she is ill. If the biological parents truly love their child, they will see the immense pain that Khamiyah/Alexis is going through watching the only mother she has ever known behind bars with murderers and drug dealers, and make the sacrifice/compromise to ask the courts not to send her to a prison. Instead, ask the courts to get her the psychological help that she needs.
Your point makes sense, but try to also imagine her biological parents' pain; the baby the real mother carried for 9 months and knew since she first felt her in her belly went missing the day of her birth. Someone took her child away, the child she was waiting for, the child she loved since the day she found out she was pregnant. Then she suffered for years, not knowing if her baby was alive, healthy and happy ... When she finally found her daughter it was painful to see her loving another woman. The woman that made the family suffer and worry for 18 years. And I'm sure she still suffers everytime her daughter preffers the other lady as her mom.
It's just another point of view to explain why the parents maybe hate her too much to take her out of jale. But yes, the woman needs a therapist, because she is sick and needs to be helped.
Sarah flükiger I agree with you. Just because I can empathize with the kidnapper, that doesn't change how I feel for the birth parents and the pain they went through. That is why I still believe that the kidnapper deserves to do time, just not in a prison. That won't help anything. I do agree with your point though.
Reyna EVIL EVIL EVIL on all levels!
Reyna therapy ? 18 years have gone by . This woman does not need therapy . This woman knew exactly what she was doing . Stop using mental illness as an excuse for every situation .
Reyna Very well said....
Thats sad , you cant hate on her for loving that women.
Some of y’all have absolutely no compassion at all. It’s pretty sad.
Lyricalmind24 SimplyMe 💯
She is a ticking time bomb seen her on iyanla fix my life!!!
Nicole Gilmore she was awful on there!
Seek God!!!!
Look at what she's been through
Agreed
People make her that way she needs time to heal
I can't pretend to understand what this girl is feeling, but she has to realize how heartbroken her biological mother must feel seeing another woman stealing her role as mom, stealing her opportunity to love her as her daughter, stealing her chance to raise her own daughter.
You can not blame her for loving that woman ...thinking of how much I love my mom , I can not stop loving her even if the whole world told me that she stole me as an infant .I also like how she mentions that she will give her new family memories and a chance in other interviews .She is an amazing girl.
thank God she was loved and not harmed...of course she loves her mom its the only mom she has ever known...
Sissy DaughterOfChrist Indeed. It looks like people don’t understand love & mercy. The parents should forgive and can’t the police turn the other way around if the Parents don’t want to file charges?
@@williss11
SHE STOLE A CHILD..........A CHILD!!!!!!!!!! Not a fucn candy bar from a store....smh.....fuck wrong with people??
@@daddyfamlittle6262 the lady behind bars is her mom and If she was standing right in front of you today or 20yrs from today she would give you the same answer, that's my mom, it's time you separate the two, meaning the crime and her mom, the lady behind bars did commit a crime but the lady behind bars is also her mom to her and I support the 100 percent even if it was my child stolen from me.
So help us all. Munchausen Syndrome is somehow "catching." Please read other peoples' comments on the OP to understand just how wrong, even if well inteded, that comment of yours actually was, from a bigger-picture psychological standpoint.
All you people in the comments are hypocrites. NO one has the right to tell the girl what she SHOULD feel. SHE was brought up and raised well. THAT woman, behind bars, IS her mother.
Yes, she should pay, and going to prision is the price for that. But saying that girl SHOULD not like the woman that raised her is stupid.
Princess Fluffybottom ikr
Princess fluffybottom, you are crazy. Raising her well would imply that Alexis Manigo really exist. This girl was lied to daily, her whole foundation was an illusion and a lie. She stole this child's ture childhood away. This child has suffered trauma that is deep inside and very problematic/harmful. This child is psychology broken and emotionally destroyed. Remember Alexis Manigo does not exist. This was a name given to her by her abductor. There is no such person. This child really needs to distance herself from Gloria Williams, get her mind together. Gloria brainwashed this child for over 18 years. I can hear it in her defense for her kidnapper. The kidnapper Gloria is using Kamiyah to help lessen her own sentence and save her own ass. Yes, Kamiyah is not able to see what has been done to her, but she will, one day. When that day comes, during Gloria's 18 year sentence, you bet your bottom dollar that there will be some form of change in emotion that she will have as her kidnapper for sure.
Princess Fluffybottom absolutely agree with you!!!!
Thank you! She loves that woman. She was raised by her and by all means their relationship was extremely healthy and happy. Alexis shouldn't have to be told that she'll change her views one day or she should hate her.
She has had a mix of emotions but she's very selfish no thinking about her real mother and all the pain she's been thru
When someone love you and raise you right. You never loose the love for them.
I will say the Kidnapper raised a beautiful,seemingly, well adjusted young lady.
but she still kidnapped her
I know its very wrong but at least its better than being abused in most cases of kidnapping.
Madison *Apparently not. Alexis is far too immature to understand the gravity of this issue and aside from that, she’s clearly not well adjusted because she cannot imagine the horrendous pain of her own biological mother nor can she process that what the imposter mother did is unforgivable*
Unfortunately the imposter mother was for her her mother and will always have a place in her heart. She may realize that the woman was sick but if she was reasonable loving to the girl and it seems that she must have been because she turned out so well, they would have bonded. It is totally unfair but you cannot erase what happened in this tragedy. The girl will continue to love her kidnapper mother to some degree. Let's hope that she can build a relationship with her biological parents.
She is brain washed!
That lady could have adopted why did she kidnap. Crazy lady
she wanted the father to believe the child was his...
She's a damn thief....go get your own.
This is a very Tough situation it goes to show you we're truly bonded by Heart
This younglady is broken....the disrespect she showed on Fix My Life was horrible. The abductor should do time. IF she was a man there would be no mercy....
I can't imagine how her parents felt.
Asia is me lol they feel like shit after watching this
Wow! She looks just like the woman that kidnap her
deekors that’s what I was I saying!
She was well keep
deekors exactly that's why we need DNA test these days ..especially the men
deekors I thought the same thing. But then I saw he father. Lol
Donnie Moma 😂😂😂
I understand that that's her "mom" and who she grew up with, however this lady stole a baby and took away 18 years from the parents. They never got to hear her first words, see her first steps, take her to her first day of school, see her go to prom etc. Imagine having a baby in your stomach, GIVING BIRTH TO THE BABY, seeing your baby and then just having her be ripped away from you. She needs to see that a sane person would not go into the hospital, dress up as a nurse and take away someone's love and joy
The woman that was pregnant with her baby for 9 months is the one that loved her, that woman that STOLE a new born baby did not love her! She was taken so that woman could play house, a mother who loved her baby had that stolen from her and it must be heartbreaking to see your child protect a criminal that has made the past 18 years of your life hell.
Alexis.. I mean Robin 😂
😂😂😂😂
You can't steal a child "by mistake".
im sorry but throw away the key and keep her in jail for 18 yrs i cannot imagine how the real mom felt losing her child the child is grown she can just visit her caregiver in jail bc thats all she was no right to take someones child away from them
yeah, especially if you have fertility issues not that she has, I don't know but just saying.
Im going through this SAME thing my son was stolen from BIRTH
How will that help Alexis? She will just loose two mothers then. She grew up truly believing she was her real mum and now her whole world got turned upside down. You can feel that she loves her abductor, and I don't think she's a bad person - I think she suffered a trauma when she miscarried. I can't even imagine the pain and loss her real parents felt, but I also don't want Alexis to feel the same loss and pain with loosing yet another mother.
It's a complicated situation. But locking her up behind bars won't help no one, they all need therapy and help to get through this yet the abductor needs to pay, in some sort of way, for the crime that she did.
Exactly ^. Clearly you aren't thinking of Alexis when you made this comment. She was taken away from her biological family for 18 years, and now you want the mother she loves dearly as her own to be taken away from her for 18 years? Yeah nah..
She's extremely mature for her age.
The Most Known Unknown she's 18 realistic grown
The Most Known Unknown Not really. She's very average for an 18 year old.
She very brain washed
This girl has no emotional connection to her biological parents which is why it's easy for her to forgive her kidnapper. But the truth is that any person that kidnaps someone else's baby and ruins that family should get the strictest penalty... perhaps even the death penalty. That is the only way that these potential kidnappers can be prevented from comitting these very serious crimes that tear families apart. I have a very loving mother and if tomorrow I was given information that my mother had kidnapped me as a newborn baby... I too, would forgive her because the entire life I have lived with her we have had an amazing relationship. This young kidnapped girl will probably realize after the age of 25 or perhaps when she becomes a mother herself, that what her kidnapper did is incredibly wrong without a doubt, and there needs to be a very strict punishment for that!
Rigjt life
A good person would not kidnap another’s baby.
This girl sounds and looks like Fantasia.
Demetrius her voice is so funny
Thank fuck I thought I was gonna be the only asshole wondering what the deal with the voice was even though it's got nothing to do with the situation.
I understand all she's ever known was her abductor. She's took someone else's child. Someone who carried that precious baby for 9 months and only had her for 8 hours. She's a horrible person. She robbed someone of a life with their child. Her parents had to live everyday with that. Not knowing anything. Not knowing if she was alive or taken well care of. She's a criminal. No matter how much she loved you and how much she gave you, that's not your mother. That is a monster. I hope one day when the media attention has faded and she's able to get to know her parents, she'll see it a little more clearly.
yes
She want understand until she has a child
*won't
This some Rapunzel Type stuff😭😭
My experience something similar to Alexis. I know how one can feel. However for me I was giving away as a baby. One day coming home from school ; the children next door was teasing me about my mother.Saying she wasn't my mother .I was in the third grade.
It hurted me so bad. I cried, cried .I became a behavior problem after that. However I did get to meet my biological parents; when i was in the six grade and. they still didn't want me or, accepted me .
I wish ,I had never laid eyes on them.
# I was a lot better off with my foster mother . She loved me more then she love her self!
I MISS HER SO SO MUCH.
Miss Sunshine Soooo sorry to hear you went through that.
Miss Sunshine thanks for sharing your story. So sad..but you're so loved...😘😘😘
Miss Sunshine YEAH, but she was not given the chance.
Jehovah God says that even if our own parents were to abandon us he will take us in. Psalms 27:10. It is just so hard to believe how cruel children can be to other children. Just look to God because he is there for you always.
This is so sensitive and deep it's best not to comment I wish you the best Alexis you have a long journey and emotional journey ahead
No it is not best. She clearly is a Munchausen Syndrome victim. She needs all the help she can get to start seeing the real truth of her full situation. Comments about it may help, if she ever chooses to read them. She doeth protest too much now, but in time, she won't. She'll need to see that we can support her when she finally comes around to recognizing the truth, and owning it for herself. Right now, she only believes its "herself" talking. No. All of this interview was the grooming from the woman she only thought was her "Mom." Guaranteed, in a couple decades, that will change. We need to be here for her when it does.
Sorry, but your "mom" is going away for years.
Hana J She's knows it but at the same time that's all she know cause she the woman that raised her.
L W Well this woman raised her she did wrong. That's all she know as her mother.
let's hope so
Hana J she sure is😂😂😂😂😂😂
lol
She sound like a 50 year old smoker
cdaddy595 ,OH, NEVER MINE WHAT SHE SOUNDS LIKE, LISTEN TO HER MESSAGE.
cdaddy595 rude
cdaddy595 😂😂
She doesn't seem to have a lot of compassion for what her kidnapper stole from her actual mother.
She found out when she was 16 years old. This young woman Kamiyah wants her birth mother to accept this kidnapper as a “surrogate” and de facto part of the family. This will not happen because the mother knows the effects of losing her time with her daughter. This woman Williams is a victim on this psychological manipulation. Kamiyah is really in horrible shape. She showed up on Iyanla and showed her anger and imbalance from this situation. This was not ‘one mistake’ it was a horror in stealing time from the birth family!
Iyanla was a manipulative and tried too hardc
She kidnapped you for 18 years...she needs to be locked up for 18 years
I agree it was wrong and the kidnapper must pay the consequences. But, how is she expected to go live, and love, a family that she doesn't even know.
Exactly that's why that heartless woman was only thinking of herself. It's not anyone's fault but Gloria's. The real mother didn't ask for this to happen. What lesson did Gloria teach?
Elizabeth Gil Why doesnt she try to get to know her real parents. It's a sad story very confusing im in the city that the kidnapping happen I remember it like it was yesterday. So sad there has to be more to the story one day maybe truth will really come out.
Yea
Dude a woman took the girl and now she’s saying Don’t arrest her -.- You clearly don’t understand what it feels when your Boligical mothers pain, she’s been looking 18yrs for you.
AngeGames and you clearly dont understand what this girl was dealing with by having that info turn her world upside down. She can have post traumatic stress yrs down the line. You don't even know how it's affecting her today. Do you know how you would feel or what you would say if it was you ?? This interview was done within 6mths of this girl finding out that wasn't her mother. She has yrs to heal maybe a lifetime. Don't judge her.
Funny because you don't seem to understand HER pain either. Imagine if from one day to the next someone said your mother is not your mother and they immediately put her in prison. She is only 18. The biological mother is an adult who now knows that her missing child turned out to be okay and a seemingly well adjusted girl. The person this is hardest for right now is the 18 year old girl.
Well you don't understand cause you haven't been in it
I have no idea what an appropriate sentenced for the mom is. She obviously meant the child no harm. Yet I couldn’t imagine losing a baby right after it was born.
That is right never hate your mom...
Bless her
Ellie o. Hello
Yeah, with some water..
Why is the reporting crying? It almost seems as though she wanted to force a emotional reaction from the girl. Be professional.
Hector Torres s
r u dumb
wow i could not imagine having my daughter taken from me just 8 hrs after birth being a mother when i think about it just give me chills i think that people and even the young lady need to put themselves in the biological mother shoes and imagine you have delivered a healthy beautiful baby girl after 9 months of having her in your womb feeling her kick you and moving around you already have her named and within 8 hrs she is stolen from you and for 18 yrs you live your life in doubt is my baby ok is she even alive GOD please take this burden from me please bring my baby back how can anyone justify what this women did saying she loved me really is that how you show love she robed this women of her daughters love but this young lady will never know the pain her mother went through until she has a child of her own this is so sad
timmeeka hill you took the words out of my mouth 👌🏼
Exactly!
Alexis is a mature and well brought up young woman. I hope that everyone in this sad story comes through it ok.
Children have a tendency to love those people around them, even when they have been treated unkind. It's human nature.
Its like tangled
looked for this comment lol
i feel bad for laughing
the girl sound like she 81
Poor girl had a great 18 yr childhood... but lost out on a relationship with her real parents...
Dogs Sing but you don't know that yeah cause all the pain that the mom went through for 18 years will be ok right?
Poor girl…what a terrible thing to find out…poor biological parents.
"She loved me for 18 years..."
This story was heart breaking to hear about. Everyone is free to their own opinion and mine as a mother is that 18 years was stolen. Every cry, every smile, sounds of her laughter, face expressions, birthdays, holidays, first and many days of school, doctor appointments, caring for her when sick. Hearing mama for the first time, her little steps, hearing mommy look at me! Kissing her face telling her I love you. Bedtime stories, hugs and her favorite friend being doll or teddy bear. The memories and moments, the pictures and saying proud that I/we was there her mommy and daddy. Graduation tears of joy. A baby you love to bring in this world and hold was stolen. And to me I am thankful for that teen being alive and well but nope I have no sympathy for a woman who stole something someone that is precious to any loving parent. If God forbid it was my child I would scream at that woman with pain and ache in me THAT"S MY BABY, MINE! Stealing doesn't make it yours it still makes you a heartless thief. And sure the thief will have supporters but it's always the same thing until it happens to you and your family then it's wrong.
She's gonna go to jail
Tammy Kay honestly it was probably a blessing in disguise. Kids are overrated.
I can see what this young lady is saying BUT.... I also wanted to her what she thinks went through her real Moms head when she was TAKEN from her! This woman lived 18 years without knowing whatever happened to her baby! That's a lifetime full of torture if I've ever heard! Can you imagine??? My God!
the psychological problems she going to have
So sad. I feel for the mother who was tortured 18 years. This has got to be devastating. I hope they throw the book at her!!!
I respect that she was given the chance to speak her mind. Now the public need to step back and let her determine who she wants to be.
Justice has been served (albeit belatedly). Gloria Williams will serve 18 years in prison.
18 years 18 years and on her 18th birthday he found out she wasnt hiiis!
remy Jess 🤣🤣
remy Jess She went 18 years without knowing 🤔🤔
Bahahaaa
Now I ain't saying she's a gold digger...
Toni Tonii but she ain’t messing with no broke..broke.....
people need to understand that this women had no love for no one but herself she did not care what person with good character and morals and empathy does this. this women had 18 yrs to do the right thing the honorable thing she had 6,570 days to do whats right 157,680 hours to do whats right 94,608,00 min to do whats right the biological mom is the victim here because she bore the burden every single day for 18 yrs how is this a better life you were taken from your real mom and now the only mom you have ever know may be taken from you for a long time and this is better life this is a nightmare wow
timmeeka hill I think the woman is a real nut case!!!
She said her kidnapper was a gentle woman...Oh please girl that woman is dangerous and those are really serious charges ,who's to say she won't get out and steal another baby!!!
this is so sad.this baby is messed up.
Camiel08Erin11 its stockholm syndrome.
Justthatguy
Thats not the definition of Stockholm.
This child has to see who she has called ‘Mom’ for her whole life in jail. Stockholm is where the person falls for the adductor(???)
The Fandom Freak i made tgat mistake... your 100% correct.
She looked very different on Iyanla
Mi Mi not really just a lil older
I love her because she is willing to still love this lady her mom ❤❤❤❤❤❤