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South African toddlers swapped at birth to stay put
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SOUTH African toddlers accidentally swapped on the day they were born in 2010 will stay with the families who raised them and not be returned to their biological parents, a Pretoria high court has ruled.
The two children, a boy and a girl who are now aged 5, were born on the same day in a Johannesburg hospital but ended up being taken home and raised by the wrong parents after nurses mixed up their identities.
The families were unaware of the mistake until one of the mothers underwent tests when her ex-husband refused to pay child support, saying he was not the father.
One of the women initially wanted to get her biological daughter back but has since changed her mind and now agrees with opinion of court-appointed experts from the University of Pretoria’s Centre for Child Law who said that the children should stay with the parents who raised them for the past five years.
The Pretoria court ruled on Monday that the children will now be considered to have been adopted by the parents who brought them up, said Anne Skelton, one of the advisers.
“Nobody is fighting it. Three of the parents totally agree with the decision. One father is uncertain but he said through his lawyers that he would abide by the decision of the court,” Skelton said.
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