Shocked women learn they were switched at birth - nearly 60 years later: 'They kept it secret'

"It was never my thought that Mona was not my daughter," a tearful Dokken, now 78, said while testifying at the Oslo District Court on Tuesday.

Lawyer Kristine Aarre Haanes, who was representing Mona, declared that the state 'violated her right to her own identity' for years, adding that 'they kept it a secret.'

It wasn't until after the turn of the millennium that Dokken realized that Mona wasn't hers and that her real daughter, Linda Karin Risvik Gotaas, was being reared by someone else.

Dokken found it peculiar that her daughter sprouted black curls but assumed she took after her husband's dark-haired mother and raised her as her own.

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