Richard Cushworth and Mercedes Casanellas believed their son had been swapped at birth and sold on. But after four new mothers were DNA tested in El Salvador to track down their son, it was discovered that one of them had taken the wrong baby home.
Mr Cushworth and Ms Casanellas had accused staff at the Ginecologico private hospital of taking their light-skinned baby to sell to people traffickers.
Richard’s father David Cushworth, who accompanied the couple as they collected their baby, said: ‘We’re all absolutely thrilled. This is an answer to so many prayers. ‘All the circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal act, but the official story we are being told appears to show it was a mistake, a mix-up.
‘I can’t say for sure what really happened. We’ll have to see how it works out through the legal system before can be certain. ‘I feel for the other family. We know nothing about them, except that they only just found out today that their baby isn’t really theirs. It must have been devastating. Metro Uk
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