The story was told of two mothers who delivered three days
apart and shared a ward, with their babies in the hospital bed. In the middle
of the night, one woke up and saw that her baby was dead. She then quietly
switched babies with the mother in the next bed. When the other mother woke up
and saw that the baby was not hers, she freaked out and took the first mother
to court.
In the courtroom, the judge calmly heard the case from each
woman. Both claiming the living child to be her own. With a wave, he silenced
them both, pronouncing that the child be sawed in two, so that each woman could
have half.
The woman whose child was the living one, was deeply troubled
and quickly begged that the judge give the child to the other woman. Immediately,
it was made clear who the real mother was and the living child duly returned.
