In 1997, at the age of 18, Celeste Nurse woke up in a Cape Town maternity ward to discover that her newborn baby was missing.
She had fallen asleep with the baby in her arms. A woman posing as a nurse had kidnapped the child.
The nurses continued to celebrate their daughter’s birthday without her for 20 years because they never gave up hope of finding her.
In 2015, a miraculous event occurred.
This revelation shocked the Nurse family so much that they contacted the police and requested a DNA test.
“DNA doesn’t lie. The results confirmed what we felt in our hearts,” Celeste Nurse said.
Suspicions were triggered when Zephany, right, and Cassidy, Celeste’s second daughter, became close friends.
The arrest and trial
When police first questioned Miché Solomon (then known as Zephany Nurse), she was distraught.
Retreat Hospital social workers discovered that, although her birth certificate said otherwise, there was no record of her having been born there.
\The social workers accompanied Miché to meet her birth parents at the police station.
The nurses were delighted, but Miché couldn’t help but feel uncomfortable.