As Celeste Nurse cuddled her newborn bundle of joy at Groote Schuur Hospital she was befriended by a woman in the ward who offered to watch the infant while the exhausted mom took a nap. When she awoke her two-day-old baby was gone.In February, almost 18 years later, Celeste and her daughter, Zephany, were reunited and the woman who raised the stolen child was arrested.Details of Zephany's alleged abduction in 1997 are in an indictment handed in at the Cape Town Magistrate's Court yesterday.The woman, who cannot be named, appeared in court and the case was referred to the High Court.According to the indictment, the accused "entered the maternity ward of Groote Schuur Hospital, where Celeste Nurse was convalescing after the birth of her daughter. She befriended her and convinced her to hand her daughter to her so that she could sleep."The indictment alleged that the woman took Zephany to Malmesbury in 2003 to register her birth.She claimed that the child was born on April 30 1997 in Retreat, two days after Zephany's birth.A nationwide search followed the abduction. Celeste and her then husband, Morné, never gave up hope of finding their daughter.They had three more children before they divorced.Earlier this year a younger daughter enrolled at the high school Zephany attends. The two looked startlingly similar and soon the truth emerged.Zephany was then taken away from the "parents" she had loved and known all her life.The court prohibited the accused from contacting Zephany but the girl decided herself to return to the home in which she had grown up.She is now living with the man who raised her as his daughter.Zephany's mother did not attend yesterday's court proceedings."She has got the flu and she is working. She can't get off from work every time. She has kids to support," Celeste's mother, Marilyn Francis, said...