Zephany Nurse baby kidnapping: Can justice be served?

Imagine growing up in a family where you are the apple of your father's eye and the centre of your mother's world. You are happy and mostly carefree and looking forward to celebrating your 18th birthday.
Now imagine finding out that the woman you have loved all your life had stolen you, and the man you called your dad is not your biological father.
This is Zephany Nurse's reality.
Zephany is the name her biological parents, Celeste and Morne Nurse, gave her shortly after she was born at Cape Town's Groote Schuur Hospital, South Africa, on 27 April 1997.
The name she grew up with has not been publicised to protect her identity.
A 51-year-old woman, whose name has not been revealed for the same reason, has been sentenced to 10 years in jail after she was found guilty in March of snatching Zephany from a hospital bed while Celeste was still recovering from giving birth.
The trial has gripped many South Africans, with people sending messages of support to the young woman on social media.
But how has Zephany coped in this highly publicised trial?
Those close to the case say it has destroyed her sense of who she is.
She has said she wants to stay with the woman who kidnapped her, rather than her biological parents.
Zephany was found after one of the Nurse family's other daughters started going to the same secondary school as her and noticed a similarity.

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Image caption Celeste Nurse, the biological mother of the teenage girl, broke down in court when she gave evidence

Celeste and Morne became suspicious, contacted police, and DNA tests later confirmed that she was indeed their biological daughter.
The woman who had raised her was arrested and so began what has become one of South Africa's most intriguing, and heart-breaking, cases.

'I was tricked'

So what drove the accused to such a desperate act?
During the trial, South Africans learned how she had suffered a number of miscarriages, which she said had made her desperate to have a child of her own to love.
But she denies stealing the baby. She said she was handed a new-born baby at a busy railway station by a woman called Sylvia, who cannot be found.

"No-one believes me at this moment and I'm a victim myself. I was tricked into something I was not aware of,"She also said that she had signed adoption papers, but they have been lost.
Although her husband only found out about the child's true identify when the story came to light last year, he continues to support her.
"We would always thank her for being a wonderful mother,
He has also spoken fondly of special holidays spent as a family.
"For 17 years, we [had] a tradition of [doing] breakfast-in-bed every Mother's Day my wife spent with Zephany. I would do the eggs, Zephany would do the toast, flowers and presents. She would also do the decorations," he is quoted as saying.
Zephany is currently living with the man who helped raise her. He says she is distraught about "losing her mother". she told the BBC in an interview she gave before she was convicted.
SOURCE;BBC NEWS