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On March 21, 2016, at 4:20 pm, a girl was born at the Niño Jesús hospital in Barranquilla. The baby, by mistake, was exchanged for another minor who has also just been born.
The strange case was known four years later, when one of the families took a DNA test and discovered that the little girl they were raising was not their daughter biologically.
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This is the story that has been with all the attention of Barranquilla for days, after the protagonists announced legal actions against the health center for the moral damage caused to both families.
José Hernández, father of one of the changed minors, was the one who managed to clarify the matter. It seemed strange to the man that, as time passed, the girl he was raising did not look anything like him.
The physical features or the color of the skin resembled those of Hernández, much less those of his mother.
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The man could not with the doubt. Last year the DNA test was carried out in which he confirmed his suspicion: the little girl was not his biological daughter.
His wife swore to Hernández that he had not been unfaithful, the first reason this man hinted after the non-DNA compatibility with the girl.
The woman also assured him that the girl was his. After the problems caused in the couple, she also decided to take the DNA test.
The result also showed that the minor was not her biological daughter. Thus, the little girl they had had in their home for four years was not the couple’s daughter.
What happened?
The couple could not find answers to what was happening. It was unusual that the girl they were raising had no DNA match to either of them.
Hernández, who this week told the stories to the Barranquilla journalists, recalled that with these results he went to the Niño Jesús hospital.
Through a right to petition, he managed to get the information on the births from March 21 to 23, 2016, dates on which the baby was born and left the health center.
To Hernández, it seemed clear that her daughter had been changed at birth. There was no other logical reason for what was happening to him.
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With the help of a private investigator, the couple undertook the search for the other babies who were born around that time at the Niño Jesús hospital.
One of the parents abandoned one of the mothers because the girl did not look like him.
Courtesy EL HERALDO
They located a family that was in Chimichagua, Cesar. The wife of another baby was contacted through Facebook after several attempts to get her to listen to the story that haunted them.
In a call, Hernández told him the whole story behind the girl he was raising. They also pointed out that they suspected that the couple’s biological daughter was, in fact, the youngest that she was in charge of and that they had suffered a “change” of babies.
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The suspicion also echoed in the woman from Chimichagua, a 16-year-old girl, mother of three children.
She told the couple that her husband accused her of infidelity when he saw the girl. He said they didn’t look like him and ended up abandoning them.
Hernández convinced her to visit Barranquilla for DNA testing.
A happy ending?
The results of these tests kept both families in suspense, but the suspicions were confirmed: the babies had been traded and given to other parents.
Today the two girls are at Hernández’s house, while the mothers have confessed that they have suffered a strong impact from which they have not yet recovered.
When I found out that the girl was not mine it was very hard, to the point that I tried to take my own life
“When I found out that the girl was not mine, it was very hard, to the point that I tried to take my own life. I was hospitalized, I almost went crazy. I looked at the girl and hugged her. I could not believe it”, one of the mothers told the local newspaper El Heraldo.
For his part, Hernández confesses that they would not like to separate them, so one of the possibilities is that they can be raised as sisters.
Meanwhile, this man asked the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (Icbf) for psychosocial support, to avoid any psychological damage to any of the girls.
He also handed over the case to a law firm that is already preparing the judicial process for moral damages against the two families against the Niño Jesús Hospital in Barranquilla.
The hospital, for its part, has said that it is willing to collaborate to clarify what happened.
LEONARDO HERRERA
EL TIEMPO correspondent
BARRANQUILLA
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