[7] Celeste Nurse delivered Zephany on 28 April 1997 by caesarean section in the Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa.
The woman, now dressed as a nurse in maroon pants and oatmeal top, made an effort to befriend the mothers in the ward.
One woman, whose neighbors had not noticed her pregnancy, was investigated by the police, but, while the child closely resembled the missing Zephany, it was a boy.
In another instance, after almost 12 years of no news, in July 2009, the Nurses received a phone call in which a woman whispered, "I know about your daughter," and asked for 500,000 South African Rand (approx US $70,000 in 2009[10]) to be delivered at a prearranged place.
The call was later traced to Glenda Doubell, a neighbor of Celeste Nurse's mother, who was charged with extortion and was given 3 years house arrest, ZAR 5,000 fine and 600 hours community service.
Once Morne Nurse heard about the physical similarities between the two girls, he arranged with Cassidy to meet Zephany at a local takeaway.
[14] In her plea, Solomon said that she had been desperate for a child after numerous miscarriages and attempts to conceive; she said that another woman had offered her Zephany, claiming that the baby's mother did not want her, and that she had paid R3‚000 in adoption fees.
"[16] After her identity as Zephany Nurse had been kept a secret for five years, she applied for the lifting of the ban restricting the publication of her legal name Miché Solomon,[15] and this was granted by the high court in Pretoria in 2019.
Zephany struggled to form a relationship with her biological family, and after turning 18, she chose to move back in with the father she had grown up with, who had been absolved of any involvement in her kidnapping.