Woman who stole a baby 19-years-ago caught after the girl met her sister with exactly same look has been sentenced by a court.
Celeste Nurse (2nd L), the mother of a South African girl who was abducted after birth in 1997 (AFP Photo/Stringer)
A South African court on Monday handed down a 10-year prison term
to a woman who kidnapped a newborn baby from her sleeping mother in
hospital 19 years ago, local media reported, AFP reports.
The 52-year-old woman was sentenced by a judge in the High Court in
Cape Town who emphasised the seriousness of the crime before handing
her the sentence.
The report of the kidnap was widely circulated after news of the
incident broke. The kidnapping victim, who her family named Zephany
Nurse, was taken from a maternity ward at Groote Schuur Hospital in
1997. Her kidnapper raised her as her own.
The woman was exposed in February 2015,
when her younger biological sister began attending high school and
pupils pointed out her remarkable likeness to a final-year student. The
younger girl told her parents about the older girl who immediately swung
into action after recounting an incident in the past how her child got
missing.
The judge said the crime was premeditated and too serious not to
warrant a jail sentence. Zephany, who is now said be pregnant, was
raised under a different name and has shunned the media spotlight on the
case.
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