Chinese police say no evidence healthy and sick baby switch decades ago was deliberate after mother claims conspiracy by other family
- Henan mother claims the hospital and family switched their diseased baby with her healthy son in an alleged conspiracy
- Mother only learned he was not her biological son following her attempt to donate her liver to save him from liver cancer
Xu, who gave birth to a boy in Huaihe Hospital in Henan’s Kaifeng city in 1992, believed her healthy biological son was deliberately replaced with Yao Ce, her adoptive son who finally died a month ago, and requested a probe into Yao’s birth parents as well as hospital staff last month, local police said in a statement.
A month-long investigation has suggested it was a mistake by the hospital, which had poor management and irregular operations back in 1992, according to the statement.
The hospital used the same swaddling clothes for all newborns and only identified the babies with a label that had the mother’s bed number, instead of a wristband which is commonly used today, police found.
The label was attached to the swaddling instead of the baby’s body directly, it said.
Yao has made newspaper headlines since April last year after Xu learned that he was not her biological son following her attempt to donate her liver to save him from liver cancer.
