Articles labeled: Hunter Allen Bathon

As unfortunate as this case is, the mix-up lasted approximately 90 minutes when two infants were accidentally switched while being circumsized. In fact, it only lasted a few hours.

Now the parents are suing the hospital for $50,000. MT is skeptical and isn’t sure if an hour or two of holding someone else’s baby is worth $50,000. The parents claim they’re doing it so that the hospital puts policies in place to ensure this doesn’t happen again. This was an honest, one in a million(s) mistake and the hospital took quick measures to right the situation. MT thinks this may just have presented itself as an opportunity for these parents to make a little cash.

But in fact, hospital workers had inadvertently switched the babies.

They sent Bathon home with Hopkins’ son, leaving 17-year-old Hopkins in her hospital room, worried about her son’s whereabouts, attorney John Womick said Friday after suing on the women’s behalf in Williamson County Court.

“Kassie, she’s having trouble communicating how she feels,” Womick said Friday. “All she can do pretty much is cry. She’s now paranoid. She’s very concerned about something happening to her baby.”

The hospital realized the mix-up and called Bathon at home the same day, March 28, and left a message on her answering machine asking her to return to Marion to retrieve her real son, Womick said.

Womick said he wants the court to require the hospital to investigate what led to the switch and take steps to make sure it does not happen again. The lawsuits seek monetary damages of more than $50,000 for each woman and a jury trial.