A major mixup at a Georgia fertility clinic forced one woman to make the heartbreaking decision to give up a baby she carried to term and raised for months. Now, as she tries to move on from her pain, she is seeking justice.
Murray says she didn’t post pictures of her new Black baby on social media, but she continued to care for him as her own hoping that it was just a sperm mixup at the clinic. But in January 2024, an at-home DNA test kit confirmed that Murray wasn’t biologically related to her baby. According to CBS News, she told the clinic about the issue in February 2024. Coastal Fertility Specialists tracked down the baby’s biological parents who sued Murray for custody. After raising the baby for over three months, Murray made the agonizing decision to give him to his parents. In her lawsuit, Murray is asking for $75,000 and other damages.
“I walked in a mom with a child and a baby who loved me and was mine and was attached to me, and I walked out of the building with an empty stroller, and they left with my son,” she told NBC News.
In a statement, Coastal Fertility Specialists apologized for the mixup adding that no other patients were impacted by the confusion.
“This was an isolated event with no further patients affected. The same day this error was discovered we immediately conducted an in-depth review and put additional safeguards in place to further protect patients and to ensure that such an incident does not happen again,” they said in part.
While Murray knows she did the right thing, she says she is still haunted by the trauma of having to say goodbye to the baby she thought was hers.
I’ll never fully recover from this,” Murray told CBS News.
@dailymail A white woman who gave birth to a black baby through IVF and lost custody of the boy is now suing the fertility clinic she went through to have the procedure. Krystena Murray, 38, filed a lawsuit this week against Coastal Fertility Specialists in Georgia, a little over a year after she gave birth in December 2023. Since she chose to have a white sperm donor, she was immediately caught off guard when her baby was dark-skinned. After taking a DNA test and reaching out to the clinic, she learned that another couple's embryo was mistakenly placed in her uterus, Business Insider reported. But just five months after giving birth, Murray lost custody of the child to his legal parents - the couple who had provided the embryo to the clinic. 'I've never felt so violated,' Murray said during a press conference with Peiffer Wolf, the personal injury firm representing her. She added that she felt 'emotionally and physically broken.' Read more at DailyMail.com. Link in bio. #IVF #baby #georgia #lawsuit #clinic #lawyer #DNA #birth ♬ Breaking News Background Music (Basic A)(1001538) - LEOPARD