Teenager 'speaks to birth family for the first time' after being abducted from hospital as a baby

A teenager snatched from a hospital as a baby has reportedly been in contact with her birth family after she was found by police in Florida.

Kamiyah Mobley was taken from a hospital in Jacksonville, Florida, on July 10, 1998, by a woman posing as a nurse, just hours after her birth.

Police received a tip off which led them to finding the 18-year-old in South Carolina on Friday, with police saying she appears to be "in good health" and a "normal 18-year-old woman".

"She looks just like her daddy," Kamiyah's paternal grandmother, Velma Aiken, said after they reconnected by video chat over FaceTime.

"She act like she been talking to us all the time. She told us she'd be here soon to see us."

Kamiyah was given a different name and grew up believing the alleged kidnapper was her mother, Sheriff Mike Williams said on Friday.

Gloria Williams, 51, has been arrested and charged with kidnapping and interfering with custody.

A DNA sample confirmed Kamiyah Mobley's identity.

Sheriff Williams said: "She did have an idea that she may have been a kidnapping victim."

Police will not reveal her identity as "she has a lot to process and a lot to think about", he added.

He said the biological mother and her family were "elated", "extremely excited" and "overwhelmed with emotion".

On July 10, 1998, just eight hours after Kamiyah was born, a woman posing as a nurse entered her mother Shanara Mobley's hospital room.

She told the mother that the newborn had a fever and it needed to be checked.

The woman then left the room and exited the hospital with the child and they both disappeared.

Police searched every floor and room of the hospital.

The FBI and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement were also called to assist, but leads ran cold.