Women discover after 55 years that they were switched at birth
Two women are suing the hospital where they were both born in 1964, after they discovered they were switched at birth.
Jill Lopez and Tina Ennis, both 57, discovered the mix-up at the hands of the Oklahoma hospital after learning the truth from an at-home DNA test through Ancestry.com.
The women were both born at Duncan Physicians and Surgeons Hospital on May 18th 1964, but somehow claim they were each handed off to the other's biological parents.
Jill and Tina went 55 years without knowing the truth, until Tina sent her DNA off to Ancestry.com and received confusing results.
With the help of her daughter and extensive internet research, Tina tracked down Jill, who took her own DNA test and confirmed that she is the actual biological daughter of Ennis' mother, Kathryn Jones.
The two women are now suing the hospital they were switched in for recklessness and negligent infliction of emotional distress.
Both families had no idea about the devastating mix-up until recently, and are now left struggling with the revelation.
Kathryn Jones said one of the worst parts of the discovery was realising her grandchildren were not biologically hers either.
"It was like somebody had ripped out a part of my heart,' Jones said. 'I just couldn't deal with it."
Since the news broke, Jill has been spending time with her biological mother, leaving Tina heartbroken when she realised her biological parents, Joyce and John, had both passed away.
"Jill got to be with my real parents, and now she gets to be with my parents I grew up with," Tina said.
"I didn’t know what to think about it at first, but the more I think about it, it makes me really sad."
Together with Kathryn Jones, Tina and Jill have filed their suit against the hospital, who are fighting back.
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