Original Blog Entry: Mothers, sons reunited 2 years after baby swap

truesee — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:00:36 GMT

Mothers, sons reunited 2 years after baby swap in Russian clinic

16:10 | 20/ 04/ 2009

MOSCOW, April 20 (RIA Novosti) - Two families have exchanged their toddlers after a DNA test confirmed that the children were confused in a maternity ward, Russian media said on Monday.

The two boys, who were born on March 1, 2007, in Mtsensk in the Central Russian Oryol region, were confused by a nurse hours after their birth, the popular Komsomolskaya Prada daily reported. As a result, Russian woman Anna Androsova was discharged from hospital with a dark-haired, brown-eyed boy named Nikita, while Zarema Taisumova left for Chechnya with a blonde, blue-eyed baby named Adlan.

Though the children bore little resemblance to their families, the parents did not suspect anything until Androsova found a hospital label with Taisumova's name on it.

Androsova met with the Taisumovs, but they did not believe her. The Russian woman then sought a DNA test, which confirmed she was not the biological mother of the child she had raised as her own.

In December 2008, the Mtsensk District Court ruled that the children should be brought up in their biological families, and ordered the families to swap again.

Androsova won 150,000 rubles ($4,400) in compensation from the maternity ward. The second family also plans to sue the clinic.

The nurse who made the mistake has been fired.

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