SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador, Sept. 8 (UPI) — A Salvadoran woman and her British husband have been reunited with their son four months after he was swapped with another baby hours after birth in an alleged human trafficking case.
Mercedes Casanella and Richard Cushworth traveled from the United States to El Salvador, Casanella’s home country, in May to have the child. After the baby was born, Casanella became suspicious when he was returned because his skin color was darker and he had some different physical features than the child she saw immediately after birth.
The couple returned to the United States where they carried out a DNA test confirming the child they took home was not their own.
“It’s a horrible situation for me, for [Casanella] for my family, her family,” Cushworth said, according to BBC News. “A child is an experience you have for a lifetime … this is a life-long injury that’s very, very deep, and it’s horrible.”
Cushworth and Casanella accused Salvadoran Dr. Alejandro Guidos of human trafficking. A court on Monday ruled that a case against Guidos should continue and he is barred from leaving the country.
Guidos denies wrongdoing. The other baby has been returned to his family.
Francisco Meneses, the couple’s lawyer, is urging those with information on the incident to come forward.
“We don’t have anything against the people who were involved during the baby’s birth, but we want all these people to put their hands on their hearts because from the doctor who performed the surgery, the paediatrician, anaesthesiologist and the two nurses who were in the delivery room, it’s very important for them to tell us what happened,” Meneses said.
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