Forty years gone’: Two Canadian friends, born in 1975 – likely switched at birth – KitchenerPost.ca
David Tait Jr. sat before reporters late last week, tears in his eyes.
“I want answers,” he said. “So bad.”
Tait was born in 1975, in Norway House Indian Hospital in Manitoba, Canada. He became lifelong friends with Leon Swanson, who had been born in the same hospital just three days earlier, the Associated Press reported.
But four decades later, DNA testing now suggests David Tait Jr. and Leon Swanson, 41-year-old friends and members of the same indigenous community, appear to have been switched at birth.
Results show that Swanson’s mother, Charlotte, was the biological parent of the Tait Jr., while additional testing of Swanson and the Tait family was pending, said Eric Robinson, Manitoba’s former aboriginal affairs minister.
“It’s a regrettable situation,” Robinson said at the news conference. “I understand that.”
