Parents who feared baby swapped at birth and sold to traffickers reunited with son

The British man and his wife who claimed their baby was
swapped at birth and sold to traffickers were last night
reunited with their lost son.
Investigators tracked down the child by ordering other new
mothers to have their babies DNA tested.
The couple accused Dr Alejandro Guidos, a gynaecologist at
the prestigious Centro Ginecologico hospital, of
masterminding a plot with other hospital staff to switch their
light-skinned baby and sell him to human traffickers.
But yesterday afternoon, hours after the family attended
court to hear Dr Guidos formally accused, the country's
Attorney General's Office dramatically announced that
investigators had already identified their biological baby.
The parents of four other boys who were also born on the
same day, May 21, had last week brought their babies to be
DNA tested last week after an order was issued by the
country's Prosecutor General's Office, which had taken over
the investigation.
The baby whose tests were last to be processed proved to
be the couple's real child.
Speaking last night, Prosecutor General Luis Martinez said
that the babies of two couples had been mixed up and that
each would be returned to their rightful parents at a special
court hearing with the presence of a judge.
He added: "We understand the painful drama of these two
families. We are talking about two children who were
swapped."
The family's lawyer, Fernando Meneses, said that the case
"apparently" seemed to be an accidental mix-up of the
infants and urged the hospital to review procedures to
ensure it could not happen again.

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