LI man was switched at birth with baby who had the same last name — and discovered mix-up on ancestry site 60 years later: suit

A Long Island man was switched at birth with a baby born minutes apart who had his same last name — and only learned the awful truth through ancestry.com, he told The Post in heartbreaking detail.

Kevin McMahon, 64, who is suing Jamaica Hospital in Queens over the alleged screw-up that occurred May 26, 1960, said DNA tests confirmed his painful nagging suspicion that he wasn’t his parents’ biological son.

“It was like the missing piece in the jigsaw puzzle,” said McMahon, who works in telecommunications and was raised in Richmond Hill, Queens. “[It] explained everything about why my childhood was the way that it was.”

McMahon said he grew up tormented by some family members because they suspected he wasn’t a blood relative…

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