The police have begun investigations. According to Salvatore Mazzara, a senior director of the hospital, it would have been preferable if the blood tests had never been performed. The parents wouldn't have suffered, neither would the children. Dr Adamo, who carries overall responsibility for the maternity ward, is more apologetic. I wouldn't like to be in the trousers of the judge who decides what happens now.
Biological links are irreplaceable.
But three years of love for a child cannot be cancelled out. Having decided to live together, the two families appear to have opted for a compromise solution, although the long-term aim is to restore the children to their natural parents. In the short term, a criminal action against the hospital appears a certainty. An official complaint has already been lodged with local police and a lawyer has been hired. And anyone who makes a mistake like that must pay for it.