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JOHANNESBURG Two South African toddlers accidentally swapped on the day they were born should stay with the families who raised them and not be returned to their biological parents, a court-appointed expert said on Wednesday. 
  
 The two children, a boy and a girl who are now aged four, were born on the same day in 2010 in a Johannesburg hospital but ended up being taken home and raised by the wrong parents after nurses mixed up their identities. 
  
 The families were unaware of the mistake until one of the mothers underwent tests when her ex-husband refused to pay child maintenance because he believed he was not the father. 
  
 One of the mothers had initially wanted to get her biological child back, while the other preferred to keep the one she had raised, leaving the North Gauteng High Court to decide. 
  
 The court asked the University of Pretoria's Centre for Child Law to investigate and report back on what would be in the children's best interests, which are given a prominent position in matters concerning minors under South African law. 
  
 "The recommendation is that the children should stay with the parents who have raised them and should also be permitted to have contact with their biological parents," said Ann Skelton, director of the center. 
  
 The court has not set a date to decide the final fate of the children but Skelton said she was hopeful its recommendation would be followed because it was now what both parents wanted. 
  
 "There was one mom who originally wanted to get her biological child back but she has softened her position and she accepts now that it's not really possible," Skelton said. 
  
 In May, a lawyer for one of the mothers said the case raised a dilemma on a "biblical scale", referring to a story in the Bible when King Solomon adjudicates in a dispute over a child between two women both claiming to be the infant's mother. 
  
 (Reporting by Tiisetso Motsoeneng; Editing by Joe Brock and Gareth Jones) ||||| JOHANNESBURG A South African court will rule on the future of two four-year-old girls who were accidentally switched the day they were born and have been raised by each other's biological mother, officials involved in the case said on Wednesday. 
  
 One of the mothers wants to get her biological daughter back, while the other prefers to keep the girl she has raised. 
  
 The babies were born on the same day in 2010 at the Tambo Memorial Hospital in Johannesburg but ended up being taken home by the wrong mother, the hospital confirmed, without giving an explanation for the accident. 
  
 The families were unaware of the mix-up until one of the mothers underwent tests when her ex-husband refused to pay child maintenance because he believed he was not the father. 
  
 "They did a paternity test and it was established that neither party was the parent of the child. They went back to the hospital and it was confirmed they had been swapped at birth," Henk Strydom, the lawyer of one of the mothers, told Reuters. 
  
 "She was absolutely devastated. She was traumatized," Strydom added. "My client wants her baby back. She is the biological mother of the child." 
  
 But the other mother in the case does not want to exchange the girls, leaving the North Gauteng High Court to decide if the children should be returned to their biological mothers. The names of those involved cannot be published for legal reasons. 
  
 The mothers met each other and their biological daughters last year and have been attending joint therapy sessions arranged by the hospital since December. 
  
 The court has asked the University of Pretoria's Center for Child Law to investigate what would be in the best interests of the children and report back to the judge in 90 days. 
  
 "We have been authorized to investigate the matter and to give our report and recommendations. It will be up to the court to make the final decision," a spokeswoman at the center said. 
  
 Strydom compared the case with a story in the Hebrew Bible when King Solomon unveils the truth after two women claim to be the mother of a child. 
  
 "Someone has to make a very difficult decision. It really is a situation on a biblical scale," Strydom said. ||||| Two mothers in South Africa have discovered they are raising each other's daughters after they were mistakenly switched at birth in a hospital four years ago. 
  
 But while one of the women wants to correct the error and reclaim her biological child, the other is refusing to give back the girl she has raised as her own, posing a huge legal dilemma. 
  
 Henk Strydom, a lawyer for one of the mothers, who cannot be identified because of a court order, described the inadvertent swap as a travesty and tragedy that is unlikely to have a happy ending. 
  
 Both mothers gave birth at the Tambo Memorial Hospital in Boksburg, east of Johannesburg, on the same day in 2010 and were discharged. "Nobody suspected anything," Strydom said. 
  
 But last year one of the mothers, who is 33 and unemployed, sued her ex‑partner for maintenance for her daughter. Strydom continued: "The man denied he was the father. A DNA test was done it was found it was not his baby and not her baby. She was devastated. She didn't know what to do." 
  
 Eventually she met the other mother and since last December they have been attending joint counselling sessions, arranged by the hospital. This has included meeting their biological daughters. 
  
 Strydom said of his client: "She said there are resemblances to herself. She conveyed to me that it was traumatic. You can see it's not easy for her. She has to care for a child that is not hers on her own while her child is with someone else." 
  
 The woman reportedly became unhappy with the process and approached the children's court in a bid to gain custody of her biological child, but the other mother refused. Strydom agreed to represent the woman, who has one elder child, pro bono. 
  
 "It's a tragedy. She wants the baby back but it seems the other mother is reluctant. It's four years later: you can understand she doesn't want to give up her baby." 
  
 Earlier this week the high court in Pretoria appointed the University of Pretoria's Centre for Child Law to investigate what will now be in the best interests of the children, which is the guiding principle under South African law. It must report back within 90 days. 
  
 Strydom added: "Your guess is as good as mine what the court may decide. It's a travesty. How do you rectify it after four years? The longer you wait, the more traumatic it will be. But whatever happens, someone won't be happy." 
  
 He said at this point, he and his client do not want to sue the hospital or government health department, which is currently helping with the case and providing counselling. 
  
 The Centre for Child Law will now interview the mothers and fathers as well as any other person with a "significant relationship" with either of the girls. The children and mothers will undergo "full and thorough" clinical assessments and may be seen by a psychologist. 
  
 Karabo Ngidi, an attorney with the centre, said: "What's going to happen must be in the best interests of the children. Biology is an important aspect but not the only one." 
  
 The families are of Zulu ethnicity and so Zulu tradition, culture and customary law will be a factor, she added. It is also still possible the ex-partner of the mother taking legal action could be the biological father of the girl who was switched. 
  
 It is not the first child-swap case to come to light in South Africa. In 1995, two mothers were awarded damages after their sons, born in 1989, were accidentally switched at the Johannesburg hospital where they were born. 
  
 In 2009 in Oregon in the United States, Dee Ann Angell and Kay Rene Reed discovered that they had been mistakenly mixed up at birth in 1953 when a nurse brought them back from bathing. Last year in Japan a 60-year-old man swapped at birth from his rich parents to a poor family was given compensation. He grew up on welfare and became a truck driver, whereas his biological siblings - and the boy brought up in his place - attended private secondary schools and universities. 
  
 Bruce Laing, a clinical psychologist in Johannesburg, said the long-term effects of a baby swap could be "profound", "terrifying" and "incredibly traumatising". He told the Times of South Africa: "An increasingly complicated situation is that some resentment towards a child that is not yours might occur. The parents might always be thinking 'What if?'" |||||
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On a day in 2010, two South African mothers each gave birth to a girl at a Johannesburg-area hospital—but they unknowingly took the other's child home after nurses mistakenly switched them. The error came to light last year, when one of the mothers sued her former partner for child support. A DNA test done as part of the claim revealed the girl wasn't the man's baby—nor was she the woman's daughter. Now, one woman wants her biological child back; the other doesn't want to switch. The decision will be up to the North Gauteng High Court, and Reuters reports that a court-appointed expert today sided with the mother who wants to keep the child she's been raising for four years. As Reuters explains, the court requested that the University of Pretoria's Centre for Child Law make a recommendation as to what would be best for the children, as South African law gives that a good deal of weight. After interviewing the mothers and fathers and clinically assessing the girls, the center's director advised that "the children should stay with the parents who have raised them and should also be permitted to have contact with their biological parents." The girls have already met their biological mothers, who have attended counseling sessions together. But the Guardian in May reported that after one mother "became unhappy with the process" she found a lawyer to take her case. Says the lawyer, "She said there are resemblances to herself. She conveyed to me that it was traumatic." No date has been set regarding a final determination. Reuters earlier reported that the hospital has given no explanation for the mix-up. (A wild switched-at-birth case surfaced in Japan last year.)