Mom Is Reunited With Kidnapped Daughter 18 Years After Crime

An 18-year-old teenager had her world turned sideways recently when she made friends with a new classmate.

Zephany Nurse was a typical teenager making her way through high school when friends informed her that a new classmate looked really similar to her. Intrigued, the young lady befriended her younger classmate and the two became quick friends. They had an instant bond, almost as if they were sisters.

According to the Cape Argus, when the younger girl told her parents about her new friend and the family invited her for coffee.

Upon meeting the girl’s family, things started to click into place. The girls bonded so well not just because they were like sisters, but because they WERE sisters.

Zephany had once belonged to the parents of her younger classmate, however, a kidnapping shortly after birth separated her from her family.

She drifted back to sleep after the pains of labor, the woman stole her baby from the hospital room. When the new Mom woke again, she was horrified to find her child gone. In a previous interview she explained to Cape Times:

“When I woke up there was a nurse saying my child is gone. You can’t imagine the feeling,”

As it turns out, the baby had been kidnapped by the woman posing as a nurse.

After meeting their younger daughter’s new friend, they immediately knew the girl was theirs. DNA tests were given and they confirmed what Celeste and Morne Nurse knew to be true. It was indeed their long lost daughter.

The woman who posed as a nurse is now facing kidnapping charges, along with fraud and pretending to be the girl’s biological mother.

An emotional Celeste Nurse tells court details of Zephany's kidnapping https://t.co/HKZ7Xc9sps pic.twitter.com/tKNvh0xy5e

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Although the couple went on to have three more children after the kidnapping incident, they never lost hope that their daughter was out there somewhere. In fact, they threw her a birthday party on the date of her birth every year.

“I’ll never, ever give up hope. I can feel it in my gut — my daughter is out there and she is going to come home.”

Mourne was right. It wasn’t the police or child services who brought their daughter home, but their own flesh and blood who found the lost child. It’s almost too unbelievable and poetic to be true.

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Mom Is Reunited With Kidnapped Daughter 18 Years After Crime is an article from: LifeDaily