Babies swapped at birth finally receive compensation for 20 year trauma

The court ordered the clinic in Cannes to pay the women 2million euros, which was six times less than what they were asking for.

Compensation was divided between the parents, the grown daughters and their siblings for the mix up, which occurred when the two girls were put in the same incubator in 1994.

Sophie Serrano, 38, gave birth to a daughter who suffered from jaundice, and so she was placed in an incubator along with another baby suffering from a similar disorder.

A nurse accidentally switched the babies and, despite both mothers expressing doubts about their children, they were sent home.

Ten years later and the Serrano family were almost torn apart when Sophie’s husband requested a paternity test, as he was troubled that his daughter bore no resemblance to him.

But when Mrs Serrano then took a test herself, they discovered the horrifying truth that they had been given the wrong child.

After ten years, the mothers met they biological children for the first time, but neither asked to be switched back.

‘It was a pretty disturbing moment’ said one of the daughters, Manon.

‘You find yourself in front of a woman who is biologically your mother but who is a stranger.’

Both families found it too distressing to be in each other’s lives, and so have distanced themselves from each other.