Richard Cushworth and his wife, Mercedes Casanella, had to wait for almost a year for official documents after they were reunited with their son Moses last year.
A British man and his wife have finally been allowed to take their baby son home to the U.S. after he was switched at birth with another child in El Salvador.
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Richard Cushworth, from West Yorkshire in the U.K., and his Salvadoran wife Mercedes Casanella were reunited with their son Moses eight months ago after a DNA test proved the child they had taken to home was not their son.
The couple said it felt "wonderful" to return with their son, after waiting almost a year for Moses' birth certificate to be approved. Without it, they were unable to return home to Dallas, Texas.
But the cost of obtaining a birth certificate for their son nearly bankrupted the family, Cushworth said.
"It has forced our family to be separated, it's been awful. I thought it would be a matter of days, maybe weeks but not nine months. It has been dreadful."
But Casanella became suspicious after they returned home and she noticed that the baby boy appeared to have much darker skin and slightly different features than the child she was handed immediately following her emergency Caesarean.
The couple took a DNA test which proved there was 0% chance the child was related to them.
"The thought that the baby I had been nursing, taken care of, loving him, bathing him - that he was not mine," Casanella told the BBC. "And then I had another thought which came with it - where's my baby?"
"I just felt a panic that my only child was lost or stolen," Cushworth said.
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