Women switched at birth in hospital mix up with tragic consequences

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Two women who were accidentally switched at birth in 1964 only found out they had been misplaced after taking an Ancestry.com DNA test.

Tina Ennis and Jill Lopez were both born on May 18, 1964 at Duncan Physicians and Surgeons Hospital, Oklahoma.

They were tragically switched at birth by accident and handed to the other’s parents.

Ennis realised she was not at all related to her original family after she and her 26-year-old daughter carried out an at-home DNA test to locate her grandfather.

After the name of her relative came back, Ennis drew a blank and her daughter convinced her she was switched at birth before eventually tracking down Jill Lopez.

At her request, Lopez took a DNA test and realised that she was the actual biological daughter of Ennis’ mother, Kathryn Jones.

Distraught by the news, the three women are suing Duncan Regional Hospital for alleged recklessness and negligent infliction of emotional distress.

The Daily Beast reports that the hospital has denied the allegations, claiming it is not the same entity where the two were allegedly switched as it had merged with other local hospitals in 1975.

Tragically, although Jill Lopez and Kathryn Jones were able to reunited, Ennis’ biological parents had long since been dead.

Kathryn Jones was delighted to meet her daughter for the first time, but also said the experience was a bitter sweet one as it closed a chapter of her life.

Mrs Jones later said: “I felt like I was losing my daughter and my grandchildren too.”

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While the strained family readjust to their new circumstances, the woman have spent the last three Christmases together.

Ennis said: “From the outside we all probably look pretty good.

“But in my opinion, it has not been something I would wish on anyone.”

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