Court rules in baby girls' swap case trial

A Czech court has ruled that the families of two baby girls swapped at birth should receive compensation.

DNA tests in 2007 showed that the two sets of parents had each taken the wrong baby home from a clinic south east of Prague the previous year.

The parents filed a lawsuit against the clinic – which acknowledged responsibility – at the regional court in Brno.

Court spokeswoman Miroslava Sedlackova said the court ruled today that clinic had to pay 3.3 million koruna (€119,022) to the parents – more than five times what the clinic had originally offered but a quarter of what the parents had demanded.