A woman is suing a fertility clinic after “the scariest moment of her life” saw her implanted with the wrong embryo, according to a lawsuit.
Krystena Murray is suing Coastal Fertility Specialists in Savannah, Georgia after she gave birth in December 2023 to a black baby through IVF. The lawsuit alleges she “unknowingly and unwillingly carried a child through pregnancy who was not biologically related to her.”
The 38-year-old had chosen a white sperm donor but was shocked when the baby was born with “dark-skin” and was an “African American baby.” She then had to give custody of the baby to the biological parents just five months later, which “added to her trauma”, the lawsuit says.”
The birth of my child was supposed to be the happiest moment of my life, and honestly, it was. But it was also the scariest moment of my life,” Murray said at a news conference. “All of the love and joy I felt seeing him for the first time was immediately replaced by fear. How could this have happened?”
Murray loved the child as her own, even after doing a DNA test, according to the lawsuit. “I hoped that it was just a sperm mix-up, not an embryo mix-up,” she told NBC News. However, the results showed the baby was not biologically related to her. In February 2024, Murray’s lawyer contacted the clinic who identified and contacted the baby’s biological parents, who later sued for custody. She handed over the baby to his parents in court, which left her devastated.
“I walked in a mum 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,” Murray told NBC News.
“I grew him, I raised him, I loved him. I saw him no different than if he were mine, my own genetic embryo. “To carry a baby, fall in love with him, deliver him, and build the uniquely special bond between mother and baby, all to have him taken away,’ she said. ‘I’ll never fully recover from this.”
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Full Story: Mirror February 18 2025
