How a 60-year-old Japanese man won a lawsuit against a hospital where he was accidentally switched after birth (3 photos)

Due to the doctors' fault, the biological son of wealthy parents lived a life of poverty and remained alone, while the other child grew up in luxury and inherited the family business.





After birth, the child was born into a poor family that could barely make ends meet. When the father of the family died, the mother had to take care of her children, who were forced to grow up in poverty. The only luxury in the one-room apartment where the family huddled was a radio. To get an education, the boy had to work at a factory and study in the evenings. After the death of his mother, he took care of his half-brothers, one of whom had a stroke. There was no family or wealth in his life. Only poverty and constant work. Due to the need to help relatives, he never started his own family.



But everything could have been different. He could have been the eldest son of his biological parents, studied at a private school and eventually inherited the family business. The mistake made by the medical staff was discovered completely by accident, when his real rich relatives did a DNA test to verify the relationship of his older brother, who did not look like anyone in their family. When it turned out that the man was not related to them on either the maternal or paternal side, the Japanese began combing through the records of the clinic from which the child was taken 60 years ago. So gradually they managed to find their real brother.

In 2013, both men were shocked when they learned the truth about their birth. And the one who had lived in poverty all his life sued the hospital. The court ordered the hospital to pay the man compensation in the amount of 38 million yen ($375,000).



The victim then considered the compensation insufficient. "I want the hospital to return me to the day I was born," the Japanese man bitterly told journalists, of course, realizing that this was impossible.