A white Georgia woman is suing a fertility clinic over a heartbreaking IVF screw-up in which she gave birth to another couple’s black baby — then was forced to give him up at 5 months old, according to a new lawsuit.
“I have never felt so violated and the situation has left me emotionally and physically broken,” would-be mother Krystena Murray, 38, said at a press conference Tuesday.
“I spent my entire life wanting to be a mom. I loved, nurtured and grew my child and I would have done literally anything to keep him.”
Krystena Murray accused a fertility clinic of implanting the wrong embryos in her body. ABC News 4
Krystena Murray filed a lawsuit against Coastal Fertility Specialists this week. APMurray, of Savannah, underwent the grueling fertility procedure using a sperm donor with “dirty blonde hair and blue eyes” at Coastal Fertility Specialists and became pregnant after multiple tries in early 2023, ABC News 4 reported.
But when she gave birth in December 2023, she was stunned to see the baby was black — a sign Coastal Fertility Specialists had implanted the wrong egg in her uterus, according to the lawsuit, filed Tuesday.
A DNA test soon revealed the infant wasn’t genetically related to her but she felt connected to the boy and opted to raise him as her own, the suit states.
The clinic, which has branches in Georgia and South Carolina and Savannah, then alerted the biological baby’s parents of the mixup — and they sued Murray for custody.
Murray was forced to give up the baby, knowing she would likely lose the legal battle, she said.
Murray’s attorney, Adam Wolf, claimed they still don’t know what happened to her embryos. ABC News 4“I think about him every single day. There’s not a day that I don’t wonder what he’s doing,” she said. “I raised him for five months, but I didn’t get to see his first steps. I don’t know what his first words are. I don’t know, what milestones he’s hitting.”
The fertility nightmare turned her “into an unwitting surrogate, against her will, for another couple,” according to the lawsuit — which calls the clinic’s mistake “extreme and outrageous.”
She called the clinic’s error devastating and unexpected.
“I considered the consequences of IVF going in,” Murray said — including the risks of bleeding, infection, sterility and possibly death.
The baby’s biological parents demanded custody after being notified of the error. ABC News 4“Never once did I consider I might birth someone else’s child and have them taken from me,” she said. “And I feel like that should be something that women are aware of as an actual possibility.”
It’s still unclear how the mix-up happened. Her lawsuit seek unspecified monetary damages.
The clinic apologized in an email sent to the Associated Press — calling it an “an unprecedented error.”
“This was an isolated event with no further patients affected,” the statement said. “We are doing everything we can to make things right for those affected by this incident.”
It said the staff has adopted new safeguards to prevent similar mistakes from happening in the future.
Murray hasn’t seen the child since last May. Krys Muray / FacebookMurray’s attorney, Adam Wolf, said she still doesn’t know what happened to her own embryos.
Wolf described Murray’s experience as a patient’s “wildest fear.”
“Fertility clinics engage in vitally important work,” he said. “With that amazing work comes a real responsibility. And when fertility clinics make mistakes like this, the consequences are life-altering.”
Murray is currently getting treatment at another clinic and still hopes to become a mom.






