Manitoba RCMP have found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing after investigating two cases where babies were switched at birth in the same year at the same northern Manitoba hospital. Swanson and Tait were born three days apart — Swanson on Jan. 31, 1975, and Tait on Feb. 3, 1975 — at the hospital. Both men know each other and were raised and continue to live in Norway House, a remote community about 460 kilometres north of Winnipeg. An unfortunate accidentOfficially, Manitoba RCMP believe what happened to Barkman, Monias, Swanson and Tait was and "unfortunate accident," said Staff Sgt. The federal department found that in 1975, Norway House Indian Hospital did not place identification bands on babies in the room where they were born.

Source: CBC News August 31, 2017 18:51 UTC