Mexican Couple Reunited With Teen Son Who Was Abducted As Newborn By Fake Nurse

A Mexican couple has reunited with their now-teenage son, 16 years after the newborn was abducted from the hospital by a woman pretending to be a nurse.

Yasir Macias and his wife, Rosalia Lopez have spent the best part of two decades waiting to see their son Salvador again.

The couple saw their son for the last time on Dec. 15, 2005, at the IMSS Hospital General Regional in Guadalajara, Mexico.

A woman pretending to be a health care worker abducted the newborn saying she needed to take him for feeding as visiting hours had ended, Newsflash reported.

In September 2021, the Jalisco Institute of Forensic Sciences (IJCF) carried out a comparative facial analysis using a photo of the missing newborn to determine how he might look today.

A few months later, investigators came across a young, healthy boy with very similar characteristics to their analysis.

"The Public Ministry agency obtained the results of the expert reports, which confirmed 99.99 percent that the minor is directly related to both the mother and father, who have already been notified," the State Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement.

The Governor of Jalisco, Enrique Alfaro, congratulated the investigators for reuniting the family.

"From my heart, all my best wishes for this new life that begins today. All my appreciation to Forensic Sciences for their great work, to Security Coordinator @RicardoSBeruben and @FiscaliaJal for not letting go, and to everyone behind this great achievement," he wrote.

No one has been arrested for the abduction and authorities are continuing to investigate the crime.

In a similar, however, tragic incident, a Chinese teenager, who was sold by his parents as an infant, has died by suicide after a social media search reunited him with his birth parents, who then rejected him again.

Liu Xuezhou died of an overdose of antidepressants early Monday, Jan. 24, at a hospital in Sanya, China.

Before taking his life, the 17-year-old aspiring teacher wrote a lengthy note on Weibo — China’s version of Twitter — saying that he had been "abandoned twice" by his biological mother and father.

Xuezhou had launched an online campaign asking for help finding his biological family, who, according to his adoptive family, sold him as a baby for $4,200.

He was finally able to track down his birth parents last month. They are now divorced and remarried.

When he met his parents, he asked them to "either rent or buy a place for me because I have been homeless".

However, he alleged that they cut him off instead, with his mother even blocking him on messaging platform WeChat.

His mother, surnamed Zhang told Chinese media, "Wouldn’t you stay away if he were your child and was being so defensive that he even recorded your conversations? His father has remarried, and so have I. He tried to force us to buy him a home, but we are not well-off enough for that."