Kamiyah's mother, Shanara Mobley, delivered her at 7:00 a.m. on July 10, 1998 at University Medical Center in Jacksonville, Florida. Authorities believe that an unidentified African-American woman who posed as a nurse abducted Kamiyah that afternoon. Sketches of the suspect are posted below this case summary.

The suspect apparently befriended Shanara while she was admitted as a patient. Investigators believe that the abductor passed herself off as a Mobley family member to hospital staff, while continuing to assume the role of a medical professional when dealing with Shanara. The suspect waited in the hospital for fourteen hours, repeatedly asking nurses when the baby would be leaving the nursery. She was in Shanara's hospital room periodically from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on July 10 after Kamiyah's birth. The abductor told Shanara that there was a problem with Kamiyah's temperature at approximately 3:00 p.m. and said that she would return with the infant in approximately 20 minutes. She apparently walked out of University Medical Center with Kamiyah afterwards. Neither she nor the child have been seen again.

The abductor is described as being 25 and 47 years old. She is approximately 5'5 and 150 to 160 pounds. She has black hair and brown eyes. The suspect was wearing a black mushroom-style wig, reading glasses, a nurses' flower-print jacket, teal medical pants, black shoes and surgical gloves. She was carrying a large-sized black vinyl or leather bag. The suspect also wore a plastic identification badge with the rear side facing upward, which was similar in size to the official University Medical Center badges. Authorities stated that the abductor seemed to have knowledge of the center's building layout and was also familiar with medical terminology.

Kamiyah's father, Craig Aiken, was charged with lewd assault after Kamiyah's disappearance, as he was of age but Shanara was only fifteen years old at the time the child was conceived and unable to legally consent to sexual intercourse. Aiken was nineteen when his daughter was abducted; Shanara had turned sixteen. She sued the hospital for $250,000 in damages after Kamiyah's abduction and was given a monetary settlement, the terms of which are confidential.

Shanara and Aiken have not been very cooperative with police in the investigation of their daughter's abduction. Neither of their families are actively helping to find Kamiyah, and Aiken and Shanara have refused to give permission for age-progression pictures to be done of the baby. Her case is open but inactive due to lack of leads.

Kamiyah and her abductor have never been located. Authorities believe the baby was kidnapped by someone who wanted to raise a child and is probably being well cared for. Kamiyah's case remains unsolved.

Above Images: Sketches of abduction suspect