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Russian court has ordered a hospital pay $101,200 each to two families
whose children were accidentally swapped at birth 12 years ago. The
Belyayev and Iskanderov families asked for $165,941 each in moral
compensation from the hospital, but the court ordered yesterday that
each family get $101,200. The swap was discovered after the Belyayevs
filed for divorce and the father requested their daughter’s DNA for a
paternity test. The test revealed neither of the Belyayev were the
biological parents of their daughter and a police investigation
discovered their actual daughter was living with the Iskanderovs. When
the girls were born 12 years ago, the staff at in the maternity ward at a
Chelyabinsk region hospital mixed up the baby tags after the mothers
gave birth. The girls are reportedly having trouble taking in the
information that the people who raised them are not their biological
parents. Both families have expressed their reluctance to switch the
girls back.
