A story about girls who were accidentally switched at birth six years ago had a godsend: both are with their respective biological families.

Today, with his daughter in his arms, José Gregorio Hernández says goodbye to days of uncertainty, fear and genetic testing, keys to clarify what happened the day the babies were born.

Thanks to him, this situation was clarified, although in this case there is a bittersweet taste in one of the mothers monopolizing the attention of Colombia.

It all started on March 21, 2016, Infobae review, when José Gregorio Hernández and Norelis Patricia Truyol had their daughter in a hospital in Barranquilla, on the Colombian coast.

According to RCN Radio, by the time Norelis gave birth to her daughter, José Gregorio Hernández had not gained weight. “The woman, without any news of the delivery, went home with her baby.”

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“She’s Not My Daughter”

The first two years of the girl passed without any problems. The family lived quietly with their 4 daughters.

Two years later, “she began to notice some facial differences that were more than disturbing, especially the fact that the little girl’s skin was much whiter and the features of her face did not match those of her other three daughters.”

The color of his skin caught Hernández’s attention as everyone calls him “El Negro”.

Insecurity seized Hernández, who doubted his wife.

He began to think that the girl was the product of Norelis’ infidelity

Looking for answers, he went out with the girl one day and said he would buy her shoes. The purpose of the exit was another… he lied.

José Gregorio Hernández secretly took the girl to Barranquilla and performed a DNA test on her.

The outcome was the outcome she feared most: she was not her biological daughter.

With the result, he asked Norelis, “who remained steadfast in his allegiance”, the media exposed.

The man wanted to know the truth and subjected the mother to a DNA test. This result was definitive to go for the truth.

Questions at the hospital

José Gregorio Hernández did not sit back and decided to go to the health center where the little girl was born. The case hit the media in September 2020, Univisión said.

With the two tests in hand, she sent a petition to Niño Jesús Hospital requesting information about all deliveries that took place on March 21.

In response, he received “the list of births that occurred both naturally and by caesarean section, not only on that day, but also between March 22 and 26 in the medical center of Barranquilla, the Colombian press explains.

He read everything, data by data. And according to RCN Radio, he came up with a name: “Ana CC, a woman who also had a girl just 20 minutes from Norelis.”

The truth was closer than he thought. After searching the networks, he found her on Facebook and just by looking at the photo, he assumed the mistake that led him to this insecurity.

He told the press that this woman in her Facebook photo was carrying a girl and that, for José Gregorio, this was his daughter. He had no doubts.

Photo by RCN Radio

The second reaction was to write to Ana, who thought it was a joke. However, when exchanging images of the girl José Gregorio had at home, doubts set in and they did not hesitate to see each other.

The two families in this story They live in Chimichagua, department of Cesar, and Palmar de Varela, in the department of Atlantico. Both populations have retreated from Barranquilla.

Girls with their biological families

From Infobae, they report that this case was “closed on the morning of February 28, 2023: Following a court order issued by a family police agency, the girls were placed with their biological families despite the painful farewell.”

The crying was inevitable. And how not after six long years.

One of the girls “went on a bus from Palmar de Varela to Chimichagua, while the other in the arms of Jose Gregoriowho is already undergoing a procedure to place her in a school.”

According to Blu Radio, they both wore the same outfit that Tuesday: a fluorescent green blouse and patterned pink skirts, as if to preserve a memory of the girls whose destiny had placed them in a family.

Not everything was lucky with this reunion. The babies, Saray and Salomé, continued to cry, they describe. Some family members ask for psychological support for both, reports Blu Radio.

In addition, the media points out: “The worst part of the story is carried by Norelis Truyol, the girl’s biological mother. You must agree with José Gregorio and set the days when everyone can share with the minor.

José Gregorio also cries, with happiness because he has his princess and remembers the other. She told Univisión her greatest wish: that the girls see themselves as sisters too.