Miche Zephany Sheldon, 26, was snatched by Lavona Solomon who was then arrested after a DNA test in 2015 revealed she and her husband, Michael, were not Miche’s biological parents
A woman was recently walked down the aisle at her wedding by “two dads” after she discovered she was snatched at birth and brought up by another family in South Africa.
Miche Zephany Sheldon, 26, was snatched by Lavona Solomon who was then arrested after a DNA test in 2015 revealed she and her husband, Michael, were not Miche’s biological parents. But Miche still loved the family who raised her, so she asked both Michael and her biological dad, Morne Nurse, to walk her down the aisle.
Miche, a financial bookkeeper from Cape Town, said: “Michael had been my dad my whole life – he fathered me. I’m so glad Morne opened his heart to walk alongside him down the aisle. It was such a beautiful day. We saw the union of my two families.” Miche, who was originally named Zephany Nurse, was born on April 27, 1997, and taken from her cot in Groote Schur Hospital, Cape Town, three days later.
She was raised for 19 years by Lavona and Michael, with no idea she was the biological daughter of another family. But a new girl, Cassidy, joined Miche’s school in 2015 and she realised the pair looked exactly alike. This prompted social workers at Miche’s school to ask her to do a DNA test and she found out the pair weren’t her real parents and that Cassidy was her biological sister.