When ZEPHANY NURSE discovered she wasn’t her parents’ biological child, she was 17 years old.
She met her birth parents as a result of the stunning revelation, but the drama didn’t end there. What is known is this.
Who is Zephany Nurse?
At just three days old, Zephany Nurse was kidnapped from the hospital.
On February 25, 2016, Nurse was reunited with her biological parents, Morne and Celeste Nurse, after DNA testing established her identity.
What happened to Zephany Nurse?
At just three days old, Zephany Nurse was kidnapped from the hospital.
On February 25, 2016, Nurse was reunited with her biological parents, Morne and Celeste Nurse, after DNA testing established her identity.
What happened to Zephany Nurse?
On April 30, 1997, Lavona Solomon removed a nurse from her bed in the maternity unit of Groote Schuur Hospital.
She was taken by Solomon, who pretended to be a nurse, and she and her husband, Michael, raised her as their own.
Michael was ignorant of the abduction.
Despite their initial reluctance to expand their family and fear of giving birth in a hospital, Celeste and Morné eventually welcomed a daughter, Cassidy, in 2001, a boy, Joshua, in 2006, and a second daughter, Micah, in 2007.
Zephany learned that Cassidy, a friend from school, was actually her biological sister in February 2015 after the two realised they looked alike in a selfie.
Students at Zwaanswyk High School were the first to notice parallels between her and Cassidy, which led to the discovery of her true identity.
When Cassidy showed her parents Celeste and Morne the picture, they instantly speculated that Zephany might be their long-lost kid. DNA tests confirmed that the two girls were in fact sisters.
Where is Zephany Nurse now?
She acknowledged that she originally distanced herself from her birth parents in order to support the woman who raised her, but she said that she now had a nice relationship with both of them.
In 2017, she got married and gave birth to Sophia, her first child.
Celeste said that Nurse now understands parenting and how her mother must have felt when she was kidnapped as a result of having her own child.
Celeste and Morné got back together and got married again in 2020 as the family started to mend.
For the 1997 kidnapping, Lavona Solomon was sentenced to ten years in prison in 2016.
