The lawsuit says a 38-year-old woman is suing the fertility clinic she uses to give birth to a child after implanting the wrong embryo, and will find shocking discoveries once the baby is born.
The lawsuit was filed in Georgia court on Tuesday, February 18, saying Krystena Murray “unconsciously and reluctantly brought a child who had nothing to do with her who had nothing to do with her. kid,” she learned only after giving birth to a baby boy.
Murray had to custody the baby to her biological parents five months later, adding to her trauma, the lawsuit said.
Murray, a wedding photographer living in Savannah, decided to use the help of a coastal fertility specialist, who runs IVF clinics in South Carolina and Georgia, with the help of a sperm donor.
The lawsuit says Murray chose a sperm donor similar to her: the donor is white, blonde hair and blue eyes.
The lawsuit says coastal fertility transferred the embryo to Murray in 2023, but when she was born in December of that year, Murray immediately “knows there are some problems.” baby. ”
“The birth of my child should be the happiest moment of my life, to be honest, yes. But it’s also the scariest moment of my life,” Murray said in a press conference on Tuesday, adding, She immediately felt fear because the baby would be taken away.
“All the love and joy I saw for the first time was immediately replaced by fear. How could this happen?”
Despite this, Murray has a connection with the baby, and even after having a DNA test, he has taken himself as his love.
“I hope it’s just a sperm mix, not an embryo mix,” Murray said in an interview with NBC News.
But the DNA results confirm that the baby has nothing to do with her biologically.
She knew she had to tell the clinic, so in February 2024, Murray’s attorney told the coastal fertility specialist. The clinic then identified and contacted the biological parents of the baby who was not mentioned in the lawsuit. The legal complaint says they confirmed that the child was their child by testing their DNA and then was sued.
Murray volunteered to hand the baby over to his biological parents on a painful day.
Murray told NBC News, “I walked with a baby and a baby who loved me, a mom and a baby, it was mine, attached to me, and then I walked out of the building with an empty stroller and they and me The son left together.”
“I grew up, I raised him, I loved him. I saw that he was no different from my own genetic embryo,” she added.
Murray’s attorney, Adam Wolf, a partner at law firm Peiffer Wolf Wolf Carr Kane Conway & Wise, said Murray could not obtain any embryos about her own were transferred to another couple or whether they were still there The answers in storage are in the fertility clinic.
“We don’t know the current status of Christina’s embryo,” Wolf said in a press conference on Tuesday.
“This is the basic sin of a fertility clinic, transferring the wrong embryo to one of your patients. It never happens,” he added.
The lawsuit alleges that coastal fertility expert and director of the embryology laboratory Dr. Jeffrey Grey is the defendant.
In a statement representing the clinic and Gray, coastal fertility experts said: “This is deeply regrettable that the troubles caused by unprecedented errors have led to the confusion of embryo transfer.”
“This is an isolated incident with no further patients being affected. On the same day this error was discovered, we immediately underwent an in-depth review and additional safeguards were taken to further protect patients and ensure such incidents were ensured. It won’t happen again.
Tuesday’s lawsuit accused the defendant of negligence, as well as other charges, and sought compensation and a jury trial.
“She became an uninformed agent who would not go against her will,” the complaint said.
Murray, named Baby Boy, was born to her eyes on “the most beautiful human” she has ever watched and said she will always think of his son.
“I want to be a mom all my life. I love, raise and grow my kids and I will keep his abilities as much as I can,” she said.
The IVF clinic’s mix is considered extremely rare, but Murray’s case is not the first. In 2019, a New York couple sued a California fertility clinic, accusing doctors of implanting embryos from two other couples, a discovery made by the plaintiff after giving birth to twins.
In 2021, the two couples sued another California clinic after a mix of couples. These cases have since been resolved.
