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But even though Mobley now knows the truth about her origins and has since met her biological parents, she continues to regard Williams as her mother and is fighting to have her captor’s sentence reduced.
“I want to be very clear that she is my mother. She raised me and not only provided for my needs, but loved me unconditionally,” Mobley wrote to the court in late September 2021, according to US media, citing court documents. She has lived a varied life and is “an independent, educated and deeply spiritual person” because Williams gave her everything. “I am fully aware of how our life became what it is and how my mother became my mother.”
Mobley wrote in her letter that she had met her biological parents and was grateful to have a second family and especially siblings. She knows that none of this in any way justifies the kidnapping, yet she loves her mother and supports her wholeheartedly. “I ask the court for grace and mercy because I need my mother at home”.
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Mobley’s letter became known because Williams asked the court for a reduction in her sentence, and the letter was part of the documents she submitted. In it, the kidnapper asked for her sentence to be commuted to nine years in prison followed by nine years of probation “or whatever the court deems appropriate.” Williams also highlighted her exemplary behavior as an inmate and her participation in various community and faith programs in her application: “I have not received any disciplinary reports and have been given an above-average rating for my work performance by both the State Security and Correctional Services once a month judged,” she argued.
The kidnapper confessed that she understood that this in no way lessened the severity of her crimes. “But I ask for the grace and mercy of the court to change/reduce my sentence to a partial sentence.”
Florida court rejects sentence reduction
But the appeals from Mobley and Williams were unsuccessful. The court refused to change the sentence, the Florida Times-Union reported on Wednesday. The application to halve the prison time was not made in time.