At-home DNA test during Christmas gift-exchange unraveled 38-year-old switch
Kyle Bylin discovered his birth family after taking an at-home DNA test he chose randomly during a Christmas gift-exchange. The test matched him to a biological aunt on a genealogy platform. Her nephew, Jeremy Morrison, then had his own DNA tested. The results left no doubt that the two men had been switched at birth.
“That’s when my mind was just completely blown,” Bylin said. “We could have never imagined that it was an actual birth switch that occurred.”
Morrison said he was convinced as soon as he saw a photo of Bylin’s brother and realized how much they resembled each other.
The two men and their parents filed a lawsuit last week in North Dakota state court against Unity Medical Center in Grafton. The suit alleges that Bylin and Morrison were the only babies born at the hospital on Jan. 26, 1988, and that they went home with the wrong families. The lawsuit accuses the hospital of robbing the families of the lives they were supposed to lead.
The hospital said in a statement that there is no evidence its staff were responsible for the switch. Bylin, who was born as Jeremy Morrison, said he still has the hospital bracelet that misidentified him as Kyle Bylin.