Two Russian girls switched at birth to live next door to each other

 

The maternity hospital of the town of Kopeisk in Russia's Chelyabinsk region is to pay three million rubles ($100,000) to each of the two families, whose daughters were switched at birth, Vesti.ru reports. Neither the doctors nor the obstetrician are going to incur criminal penalties: the statute of limitations on the case expired a long time ago.

The parents discovered that they were raising someone else's children only 12 years afterwards.

In case the maternity hospital of Kopeisk is incapable of compensating the parents, the fine will have to be paid by the municipal administration, Fontanka.ru reports.   More Read