UPDATE: British Man And Wife Reunited With Son After Baby Swap

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The British man and wife who claimed their newborn baby was exchanged at a private hospital in El Salvador in order to be sold to human traffickers (read here) have been reunited with their baby.

Mirror reports:

Investigators tracked down the child by ordering other new mothers to have their babies DNA tested.

Richard Cushworth, a missionary in El Salvador and wife Mercedes Casanellas, had made an emotional public plea for their baby’s return after DNA tests showed the baby they had taken home and cared for for three months wasn’t theirs.

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.

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The baby whose tests were last to be processed proved to be the couple’s real child.

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.