A South African court has found a 51-year-old woman guilty of kidnapping a newborn baby from a Cape Town maternity hospital 19 years ago, in a case which has gripped the country.
The real identity of Zephany Nurse, 18, was discovered when she made friends with her biological sister at school and people noticed the striking similarity between them.
DNA tests proved the two girls were sisters.
The woman who had brought Zephany up as her daughter, and whose identity has not been revealed, was arrested last year.
She was found guilty of kidnapping, fraud and contravening legislation protecting children, said a source at the Western Cape High Court, who did not want to be named.
The woman will be sentenced on May 30, the source said on Thursday. Judge John Hlophe said she could face up to 10 years in prison.
Zephany Nurse disappeared from hospital in 1997 while her mother was recovering from a Caesarean section.
The accused woman told the court she had received the child at a railway station from a woman named Sylvia after her own pregnancy ended in a miscarriage.
But the woman referred to as Sylvia could not be found and the accused could not produce legal adoption papers, prompting Hlophe to call her testimony a "fairy tale".
The woman had hidden her miscarriage from her husband and pretended that Zephany was their daughter, the judge said.
The girl was initially placed in the care of social workers. It is not clear if she is now living with her biological family.
The kidnapped girl's parents, Celeste and Morne Nurse, called her Zephany, but the name she grew up with has not been revealed to protect her identity.
Zephany's biological father previously testified he collected evidence for a month after he met the teenager, when his daughter told him a girl at her school bore a striking resemblance to her.
After collecting his daughter Cassidy and the then 17-year-old from school in January 2015, he took the two friends to lunch, where she told him her date of birth - April 30, 1997.
This was the date his daughter was abducted.
