By james art 
(Savannah, GA.)-A Georgia woman is suing a fertility clinic after stirring in fertilization in vitro (IVF), which is claimed to serve staff to implant the wrong embryo and give birth to a biological child of another couple.
Crystina Murray, 38 -year -old, from Savannah, said she chose a sperm donor that looks like her “with dirty blond hair and blue eyes.” She became pregnant and delivered a baby in December 2023, according to the trial.
However, Murray, who is white and who, according to the complaint, had a white sperm donor, was shocked when she gave birth, and the boy she delivered was an African American, the costume says.
Murray contacted the baby and wanted to keep him, though he knew that the clinic, coastal fertility specialists (CFS), probably implanted some other embryo, according to the trial.
She asked for a DNA test that confirmed her fears that the baby was not genetically related to her. When Murray contacted the clinic, employees signaled to the baby’s biological parents to mix, according to the trial.
The other couple filed a lawsuit against Murray for custody and she transferred the baby five months after birth. She said she hadn’t seen him since.
“At first I asked if I was meant to be a mother because I had tried so long,” she told Abc News. “This is something that actually happens and is devastating and can ruin someone’s life and realize that it is a real opportunity.”
A case was brought to the State Court of Chatham County in Georgia on Tuesday afternoon.
Murray said she dreamed of being a mother. When she was asked at a young age what she wanted to be, her answer was: Mother.
“They actually referred to a career, but, my young mind, this is what I wanted to do with my life was to be a mother,” she said. “I spent the bigger part of my young years, thinking that I should have the perfect man or husband to start a family and after I started to grow old, I realized that my priorities were changing and I wanted to pursue a mother by -Par than later. “
For about 18 months before contacting CFS, she said she had tried to get stuck without success. During a press conference on Tuesday, Murray said she had contacted CFS, which operated clinics in Georgia and South Carolina, or at the end of 2022, or in early 2023.
For several months, Murray said she had attended many appointments, including subsequent examinations and blood tests. In addition, she suffered daily injections for a period of two weeks to stimulate the ovaries to increase egg production, the lawsuit said.
Murray went through an operation to extract eggs and become pregnant during her second transfer in May 2023, she said. She gave birth at the end of December 2023.
“So the first time I saw my son, like every mother, he was beautiful and literally the best thing I saw, but it was also immediately obvious that he was an African American,” Murray said during a press conference. “I would like to say that my first thought is,” He’s beautiful. ” My second thought was, “What happened? Did they mess up the embryo or confused the semen? And if they confused the embryo, can anyone take my son? That was all within the first 10 or 15 seconds of me when I saw it. “
Murray said he loved the baby and contacted him, breastfeeding him and took him to meetings of the doctors, but she knew that the clinic had made a mistake in some way.
She purchased a DNA test at home and received results at the end of January 2024, confirming that the baby was not genetically related to it, according to the trial.
Murray’s lawyers turned to CFS in February 2024 to share Murray’s fears, the lawsuit said. In March 2024, the clinic realized their mistake and turned to biological parents to inform them that their embryo had been transferred to Murray, according to the trial.
Biological parents took Murray for custody of the child. Another DNA test confirmed that the baby was genetically related to them, the lawsuit said.
Murray said he wanted to keep the baby and hired a family law lawyer, but after a “huge sum of money and time”, they told her she would probably lose her case.
During a family court hearing in May 2024, Murray said she voluntarily turned the baby to the other couple, noting the last time she saw him.
Murray said his broadcast to his biological parents was “the most difficult day of my life.”
“I think about him every day. There is no day I don’t wonder what he’s doing, “she told ABC News.” I raised him for five months, but I didn’t see his first steps. I don’t know what his first words are. I don’t know what the main stages he hits. “
“I am not a secret of what type of person becomes or how he develops and develops, and it is very difficult and I think about him every day and I wonder how he is,” she added.
According to her court case, Murray said she did not know what had happened to her own embryo, whether it was wrongly transferred to another couple or led to pregnancy.
Murray said that the process had asked a motherhood, but she said she was currently being treated at another clinic and hoped to become a mother soon.
Her lawsuit against CFS and some of his staff was filed by the PEIFFER WOLF CARR KANE CONWAY & WISE Law Firm for negligence, gross negligence, guarantee, violation of trust duty, fraudulent, battery, lack of informed consent, violations of the Georgia Fair The Law on Business Practices and Violations of the Law on Discreated Commercial Practices in South Carolina.
Attorneys are looking for a solution over $ 75,000, as well as penalty damages, reimbursed lawyer’s fees, reimbursement of high costs and all other expenses. CFS did not immediately respond to ABC News’ request for comment.
Murray’s lawyer Adam Wolf said he had represented more than 1,000 people against fertility clinics due to errors that were claimed to have occurred during their treatment. He described Murray’s experience as “the most ridiculous fear of the patient.”
“After you have done this job for 13 years, when you enter the fertility clinic, there is a risk that they will not receive as many eggs as you hoped, or to create as many embryos as you want,” he told Abc News. “You can get out of this process without having embryos. But what you never think in your most funny fear is that your fertility clinic will transfer you to an embryo that belongs to someone else. This is beyond the pale and should never happen in a fertility clinic. “
He said he hoped to get CFS to change its processes and procedures, so a mistake like this did not repeat and that more precautions were being introduced throughout the fertility industry across the country.
Murray said he hoped to bring more awareness by sharing his story and letting other patients go through something like this, to know that they were not alone.
“You’re not alone and use your voice. It’s not muffled, ”she said. “I have the feeling that if we do not jump forward and do not speak our truth and share our experience, then there will never be a change and it will just be a repeating cycle. And use your voice, if not for you, because we can’t change the situation we are, then do it for someone else. “
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