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Rachel Hagan

Couple's horror as they raise wrong child after embryo mix-up in botched IVF

A couple has sued fertility medics after they gave them the wrong embryo and realised years later the son they had raised was not theirs.

Husband Chen Dong and wife Weng Lei turned to the IVF clinic in Anhui Province, east China after years of infertility and because they were desperate to have a child.

But eight years after the baby was born, the couple were suspicious when the boy clearly looked nothing like either of them, reported local media.

With suspicion high, they decided to do a DNA test which revealed he was not their son.

A court has now heard that the hospital at the centre of the ordeal, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, refused to talk to them.

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