South African woman jailed for newborn baby kidnap

15 August 2016 - 02:00
By Jenny Goldhawk-Smith

A court on Monday jailed a woman for 10 years for kidnapping a newborn baby and raising her as her own, before an astonishing coincidence reunited the girl with her biological family. The baby girl, named Zephany Nurse by her birth family, was taken from her sleeping mother at a maternity ward at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town in 1997.

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