Heartbreaking: Abbie, Kidnapped as a Baby in 1994, Tragically Loses Battle with Cancer

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At the age of 30, a woman who was kidnapped from a hospital when she was just three hours old passed away. A national search was conducted 16 days after a woman acting as a nurse abducted infant Abbie Humphries from the maternity department at the Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham in 1994.

Her husband Karl Sundgren, whom she married in 2017, wrote on social media that she died quietly on Sunday, four years after receiving a grade four brain cancer diagnosis.

He praised her by saying, “Abbie was so strong and her infectious smile will forever remain in our hearts.”

According to reports, Abbie was unaware of her kidnapping until she discovered press clippings when she moved homes when she was ten years old.

According to reports, police were tipped off that Julie Kelley, a 22-year-old former dental nurse, had been pregnant and had told people she was expecting a male but had instead brought home a girl.

Abbie, Woman abducted as baby in 1994 dies of cancer
Abbie, Woman abducted as baby in 1994 dies of cancer

After being discovered at a home in Nottingham’s Wollaton neighborhood, baby Abbie was reunited with her parents, Roger and Karen Humphries.

After entering a guilty plea to stealing Abbie, Kelley received treatment for a personality problem and was placed on three years of probation.

When Abbie was a young child, the family relocated to New Zealand. In November 2020, when Abbie began experiencing headaches following the death of her mother from breast cancer, doctors found a 5cm brain tumor.

“There is no point feeling angry or blaming anything,” she told the Mail on Sunday after receiving her diagnosis. “I usually choose to look at the positive side of everything.”

It improves everyone’s mood. Following her passing, Mr. Sundgren posted on social media, writing: “Our beautiful Abbie passed away peacefully yesterday, surrounded by loved ones.”

She can now finally rest after fighting for more than four years with such grace and strength. He stated that a celebration of her life would be place on Saturday at Whenuapai, Auckland.

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