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'Kidnapped: The Kamiyah Mobley Story' slated to premiere on Lifetime in 2020

Rayven Symone Ferrell (left) as Kamiyah Mobley and Nicey Nash as Gloria Williams (Photo: Lifetime)

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The story of the 1998 kidnapping of a Jacksonville infant girl -- and the 2017 discovery that the girl was still alive -- is coming to the small screen.

"Kidnapped: The Kamiyah Mobley Story" will premiere on 2020 on Lifetime and will be produced by award-winning journalist Robin Roberts, according to Deadline.

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Nicey Nash will star as Gloria Williams, the woman who kidnapped Kamiyah Mobley as a newborn infant from what was then known as University Medical Center. Nash has appeared in "When They See Us" and "Claws."

Williams is currently serving an 18-year prison sentence for Mobley's kidnapping.

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Rayven Symone Ferrell will play Kamiyah Mobley, who Williams raised as her own daughter in South Carolina under the name Alexis Manigo.

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Ferrell is known for her role in "The Hate U Give."

Ta'Rhonda Jones, who is known as Pasha on FOX's "Empire," will take on the role of Shanara Mobley, Kamiyah's mother, who was just a teen when her first baby was taken.

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