Mum raises wrong daughter for 30 years,reunites (Read more)

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A mum  who raised the wrong daughter for 30 years while her child was brought up in poverty is suing a hospital for £40,000 because of the blunder.


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Zoya Tuganova, 70, gave birth to her daughter at a hospital in Chelyabinsk in south-central Russia's Chelyabinsk Oblast region in 1987.

But when staff handed her a child, she complained she did not recognise her and f

Reared the babies had been switched.

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Doctors dismissed her accusations and offered to send her for psychiatric tests instead of investigating her claims.

Zoya said: "With fair hair, white skin, large eyes. The next day when they brought 

a child for feeding I looked at her and it was a completely different face."

Ms Tuganova and her husband raised a girl who they called Katya, who suffers 

from a heart disease.

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While another woman, identified as Elvira Tuligenova, brought up Ms Tuganova's daughter, called Lucia.

Lucia had to beg for money for food as neither of her parents worked, Ms T

uganova claims.

When she was 13, Lucia was taken to an orphanage after her mother died from 

alcoholism and her father was imprisoned for murder.

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Ms Tuganova claims she has always been worried she was raising someone else's child but did not investigate it until her husband's death.

"I watched a show where two children got mixed up, and started crying out loud," she said.

Together with Katya, they found Lucia and took a DNA test that confirmed the 

girls were mixed up.

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Ms Tuganova has since filed a lawsuit asking for £41,365 (3 million RUB) in compensation.

She has also become a grandmother.

Katya has an eight-year-old son and Lucia has three children of her own.

SOURCE:  MSN