{"id":9,"date":"2009-07-20T08:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T08:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/hospital-told-to-pay-damages-for-mistaking-babies.html"},"modified":"2009-07-20T08:51:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T08:51:00","slug":"hospital-told-to-pay-damages-for-mistaking-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/hospital-told-to-pay-damages-for-mistaking-babies.html","title":{"rendered":"Hospital told to pay damages for mistaking babies"},"content":{"rendered":"Even under American law, this would be a tough case to determine damages.  How does a couple effectively argue that they have been wronged for loving a child for 16 years, even if it is the wrong child?  Similar issues have thwarted efforts to get compensation for botched birth control methods as well. But those issues notwithstanding, $55,793 for giving a couple the wrong child, seems a little on the light side.  <br \/><br \/>What happened to the other child? Isn&#8217;t that a form of kidnapping?<br \/><br \/>And what about the other family?<br \/><br \/>Attorney Gordon Johnson<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/tbilaw.com\">http:\/\/tbilaw.com<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/waiting.com\">http:\/\/waiting.com<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/fishtail.tv\">http:\/\/fishtail.tv<\/a><br \/><br \/>Date: 7\/20\/2009 7:08 AM<br \/><br \/>SEOUL, South Korea (AP) \u2014 A South Korean court has ordered a hospital to pay 70 million won ($55,793) in damages to a couple that raised the wrong daughter for 16 years because of a hospital mistake.<br \/><br \/>Seoul Central District court judge Kim Sung-soo said Monday the court made the ruling earlier this month. He did not give details.<br \/><br \/>Local media say the couple gave birth to a baby girl at the hospital in 1992. They began suspecting she may not be their daughter because her blood type A did not match theirs.<br \/><br \/>A DNA test confirmed their suspicions and the hospital acknowledged their mistake last year.<br \/><br \/>The hospital is refusing to disclose information on their biological daughter citing privacy.<br \/><br \/>Copyright 2009 The Associated Press.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even under American law, this would be a tough case to determine damages. How does a couple effectively argue that they have been wronged for loving a child for 16 years, even if it is the wrong child? Similar issues have thwarted efforts to get compensation for botched birth control methods as well. But those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,24,25,28,4,27,29],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brain-injury","tag-brain-injury-attorney","tag-drowning-and-brain-damage","tag-infant-brain-damage-neurological-disability","tag-medical-malpractice","tag-south-korean-baby-mix-up","tag-wrong-daughter-sent-home-from-hospital"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}