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Laura Sharman & Chloe Burrell

'I resent mum for not switching back' Boy wasn't returned to birth mother after baby mix-up discovered

A man who was switched at birth admits that he resents his mother for not swapping him back as he grew up poor while the other child grew up rich.

Robin and Gavin were accidentally handed to the wrong mothers by a nurse at a hospital where they were the only two babies born on that day in February 1989.

This meant that Robin, who was born at Nigel Hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa, was raised by single mum Sandy Dawkins who was struggling to get by on the outskirts of the city while Gavin grew up with wealthier parent Megs Clinton Parker in Pietermaritzburg.

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