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    BBC News Africa‏Verified account @BBCAfrica 15 Aug 2016

    Why teenager wants to stay with woman who stole her as baby not birth parents #ZephanyNurse http://bbc.in/2aVbPqY pic.twitter.com/pkXyWQKNb7

    1:04 AM - 15 Aug 2016
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    • Surendra Tantabai Ra nsilou hapos عمار الجابري..✌️⁩⁦🇴🇲⁩ khamkhongsaengvilai Fred Jim Mdoe 💫✨ Lisa Marie Faye Felista Wangari Pezzani
    12 replies 108 retweets 83 likes
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      2. Komi Anani‏ @Komianane 15 Aug 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        In my opinion, what the woman did was illegal but to sentence her to prison term is not right. The state should pardon her.

        3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. shamie‏ @maSibandaM 15 Aug 2016
        Replying to @Komianane @akutsah @BBCAfrica

        imagine having your child stolen would feel the same?

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Komi Anani‏ @Komianane 15 Aug 2016
        Replying to @maSibandaM @BBCAfrica

        Yea, feeling are different, that is why we are not the same. After all, there are a lot of career criminals walking

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. shamie‏ @maSibandaM 15 Aug 2016
        Replying to @Komianane @akutsah @BBCAfrica

        easy to say when u have no kids ..

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      6. Komi Anani‏ @Komianane 15 Aug 2016
        Replying to @maSibandaM @BBCAfrica

        You totally wrong, because you have not experienced what I have experienced before, you would have been dead by now

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      7. shamie‏ @maSibandaM 15 Aug 2016
        Replying to @Komianane @akutsah @BBCAfrica

        the bottom line is she stole a person and ruined many lives she is evil she must be punished

        0 replies 1 retweet 0 likes
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      1. KENNY‏ @kennethokubo 15 Aug 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        knowing one to be your mother for that long gives natural attachment,her real parents are more like strangers

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      1. Camila Rodrigues‏ @cmpcr 15 Aug 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        @BBCWorld kid, that knows the truth, still chooses the woman that caused all this pain. So sad.

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      1. Camila Rodrigues‏ @cmpcr 15 Aug 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        @BBCWorld I pity the parents having their child stolen having been deprived from her life from the moment she was born and the +

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      1. Kholi‏ @kholi_0316 15 Aug 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        oh my goodness, this story is so sad and heartbreaking 💔 #ZephanyNurse

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      1. Jimmie Harris‏ @DVetZer0 15 Aug 2016
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        @BBCWorld the man should get 10 -15 years and the woman should get at least 25 years. Stole baby & took away mother raising her.

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      1. Nazmeera Mujahid‏ @MujahidNazmeera 15 Aug 2016
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        Reason being to grew her up so she knows what the woman that took care of means in her life

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      1. simon peace Uzochukw‏ @Pgeegroove 15 Aug 2016
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        @BBCWorld http://pgeegroove.blogspot.com/2016/08/nigerian-woman-designed-life-saving.html …

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