S African woman jailed for baby kidnap
A South African court yesterday 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. Her kidnapper, now 52, raised her for 17 years in a case that has attracted huge media interest in South Africa.
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