Richard Cushworth and his wife Mercedes Casanellas welcomed
a son at a hospital in San Salvador in May this year, but say they immediately
noticed that something was wrong.
The couple, (pictured right with the 'swapped' child and
left with their biological child) who live in Dallas, Texas, waited three
months before they took a DNA test - which proved the child handed to them by
hospital staff has a 0.00 per cent probability of being related to either of
them. They now fear their light-skinned baby (also pictured inset) was snatched
deliberately by staff at the exclusive Ginecologico private hospital in the
country's capital San Salvador to sell to child traffickers.
Ms Casanella's obstetrician-gynecologist, Dr Alejandra
Guidos, who the couple accuse of masterminding the plot, was arrested on
Thursday. The country's Attorney General has now ordered a criminal
investigation into the baby's disappearance amid claims a trafficking gang, led
by Dr Guido, has been operating inside the hospital. Ms Casanellas said: 'I
just want him to give me my baby back.' The couple said that if the true
parents of the baby they were given are not found, they will raise him as their
own.
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