DNA test uncovers hospital baby switch error..from 19 years ago

[get these nets]

Spanish hospital baby switch discovered two decades later

Sept 7, 2021
MADRID (AP) — Health authorities in Spain are blaming human error for the switching of two baby girls in a maternity ward almost 20 years ago, after one of them discovered by chance through a DNA test as a teenager that she wasn’t the daughter of her presumed parents.

“It was a human error and we haven’t been able to find out who was to blame,” Sara Alba, health chief of Spain’s northern La Rioja region, told a news conference Tuesday.

“The systems back then were different and weren’t as computerized as they are now,” Alba said, offering assurances it couldn’t happen again.

The newborns were mixed up in 2002 after being born five hours apart at a hospital in La Rioja. They were both in incubators because they were born underweight.

The woman, now 19, who first discovered she had been given to the wrong parents is demanding compensation of 3 million euros ($3.5 million) from local health authorities.

Alba, the health chief, spoke after the local newspaper La Rioja published a report Tuesday about the switch.

The other woman who was handed to the wrong parents has been informed of the mistake, the newspaper said. Neither woman was identified.

 

[Luke Cage]

i wonder what you do at that point. do you just switch family and try to start over? or do you just say it's too late, i love the people that raised me?
maybe a bit of both.

I couldn't imagine this happening to me. I mean my daughter was out of our sight for a brief moment because of some sort of deaf scare when she was born. But there's no way i wouldn't have recognized her. she looked like me

 

[Henri Christophe]

Thats fukked up.

But I wouldnt care if I found out I had the wrong parents.

I'm sticking with my family till the death.

No new nikkas.

The connections are already solidified.

 

[King Kai]

That's a whole different childhood she never had and they took that away from her and her parents. She should get more.

 

[Luke Cage]

Thats fukked up.

But I wouldnt care if I found out I had the wrong parents.

I'm sticking with my family till the death.

No new nikkas.

The connections are already solidified.

What if your biological fam was some millionaires and the ones you got switched with were poor?

 

[Born2BKing]

WTF

 

[SleezyBigSlim]

Time to sue their pants off

 

[Henri Christophe]

What if your biological fam was some millionaires and the ones you got switched with were poor?

Damn... I dont know bro - thats a hard question.

I've been blessed to be the seed of 2 excellent black people.

If my parents wasnt shyt - I might see whats up with the other folks.

Thats a hard question, I cant really answer.

Family is important to me

 

[Luke Cage]

Damn... I dont know bro - thats a hard question.

I've been blessed to be the seed of 2 excellent black people.

If my parents wasnt shyt - I might see whats up with the other folks.

Thats a hard question, I cant really answer.

Family is important to me

It's a crazy scenario, even as a parent. Imagine taking in a kid who a raised in a household with low values, and you were like some good fearing types? you put their 19 old through college and she prolly gonna go off to be a doctor and in exchange they raised your kid to be a dropout who already got kids by god knows who? would be fukked up

 

[get these nets]

Funny thing is, in large families there is usually the one kid who doesn't quite look like the others.

If your ears are burning reading this, you were probably the one.

*just jokes

Spoiler

 

[Luke Cage]

Funny thing is, in large families there is usually the one kid who doesn't quite look like the others.

If your ears are burning reading this, you were probably the one.

*just jokes

Spoiler

for a second i was wondering, how do i know this didn't happen to me?

but i remember we all did the ancestry test.

Plus my brother is 3 years older than me, we were born in different states and yet people thought we were identical twins growing up.