After 59 years, the women found out that they had been replaced in the maternity ward

One of the mothers found out about it much earlier, but kept silent.

Two women in Norway were shocked to discover that they had been switched after birth, only to find out almost 60 years later because the government allegedly covered up the information.

This is reported by the Associated Press.

The grown women, now 59, teamed up with Karen Rafteseth Dokken – one of the mothers who had the wrong baby – to sue the state over the switch.

Dokken gave birth to a baby girl on February 14, 1965, in a private facility in central Norway called Eggesboenes, where babies were kept together and mothers rested in separate wards. A week later, she returned home with a child named Mona after her mother, whom she believed to be her offspring.

Dokken found it strange that her daughter had sprouted black curls, but assumed that she had gone dark-haired…