EXCLUSIVE: Family of baby 'swapped' in El Salvador are calling son Moses after being emotionally reunited because 'he was lost for three months and now he's been found'

• Mercy Casanellas and her British-born, US-based husband Richard Cushworth have been reunited with their biological son
• Missionary couple have been raising Jacob, another couple's child, as their own after the children were swapped shortly after birth in El Salvador
• Fears were confirmed three months later when a DNA test said there was 0.000 chance Jacob was theirs
• The couple reunited with son after parents of babies born the same day at the hospital underwent DNA tests themselves
• Baby's grandmother tells Daily Mail Online: 'They have named him Moses because he was lost for three months and now he's been found.' 

By Laura Collins In Wilmington, Delaware, For Dailymail.com and Martin Gould In San Salvador, El Salvador, For Dailymail.com and Matt Roper for MailOnline

Published: 10:34 EST, 8 September 2015 | Updated: 12:24 EST, 8 September 2015

The family who claimed their baby was swapped at birth and sold to human traffickers have named their son Moses after being emotionally reunited with him, Daily Mail Online can reveal.

Richard Cushworth and his wife Mercedes ‘Mercy’ Casanellas took their son back into their arms last night, three months after he was taken in what the family are now claiming was a 'mix up' at a hospital in El Salvador.

They said they had 'no words to express what our heart feels to have our baby at home.' 

Speaking exclusively to Daily Mail Online from her home in Wilmington, Delaware, Richard’s mother, Lynne Cushworth revealed: 'They have named him Moses because he was lost for three months and now he’s been found.

'Moses was hidden away for three months before he was found by the Prince of Egypt. It’s very moving.’

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Moment of elation: Richard Cushworth and his wife Mercedes Casanellas cradle Jacob, the baby they thought was theirs, before being reunited with their actual son Moses, more than three months after a hospital mix-up

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