Two Orenburg region women have sued the maternity home where they gave birth to daughters 37 years ago, claiming their children were switched at birth, echoing a story of babies swapped at birth that went to court in Chelyabinsk last year.
The aggrieved women, residents of the Belyayevo region of Orenburg and friends since childhood, undertook DNA tests that supported their claim, Itar-Tass reported Thursday.
They are suing the hospital that made the switch, asking for 3 million rubles each ($100,000).
That is the exact amount awarded to each of two families in the Chelyabinsk region whose baby swap story riveted the nation last year. In that case, the families learned about the switch after the former husband of one of the mothers had refused to support their daughter because she did not look like him.