Meet The Families Whose Babies Were Switched At Birth In Hospital Blunder In France!

Two families who discovered they had been given each other’s babies ten years after the girls were born have been awarded €2million (£1.48million) in compensation by the hospital that made the blunder, www.metro.co.uk reports.

Sophie Serrano, 38, discovered she was not the mother of her daughter Manon 10 years ago after her husband – who expressed concerns that she bore no resemblance to him – failed a paternity test, prompting her take a maternity test of her own.

She then tracked down another woman who had given birth around the same time at the Cannes hospital in 1994, and learned that their girls had been switched after being put into the same incubator. CONTINUE READING........................

And a court in the southern French town of Grasse has ordered the Cannes-la-Bocca Clinic to pay €2million compensation to both families, €800,000 (£593,000) of which will be split between the swapped babies – who are now adult women – and €300,000 (£223,000) of which will go to the parents. €60,000 (£445,000) will be awarded to three siblings.

The two families have distanced themselves from each other since meeting a decade ago as they found the experience ‘too difficult and distressing’.
‘You find yourself in front of a woman who is biologically your mother but who is a stranger,’ Manon said after a hearing in December.

Speaking on French television following the ruling, a lawyer for one of the families said they were ‘completely satisfied with the decision,’ despite receiving six times less than what they had asked for.
A metro UK extract.