An Ohio woman has filed a lawsuit against a sperm bank after she was accidentally given vials of sperm from a black donor.
NBC News reports that in 2011, Jennifer Cramblett was under the impression that she was was getting sperm from a white man. However, a lawsuit filed at the Cook County Circuit Court claims that the Midwest Sperm Bank sent her the wrong sperm donation, leaving her with the last thing she expected to have: a biracial daughter.
Cramblett's attorney, Thomas Intili, told NBC News that the mistake has complicated her life, as well as the life her 2-year-old daughter, Payton. "She lives in an all-white community in eastern Ohio," he explained. "She did not encounter any African-American people until she entered college. Not all her friends and family members are racially sensitive." So much for acceptance.
Intili adds that one of Cramblett's biggest struggles thus far has been tending to her daughter's hair: "To get a decent cut, Jennifer must travel to a black neighborhood, far from where she lives, where she is obviously different in appearance, and not overtly welcome."
The mistake happened when an "8" on the donor number was mistaken as a "3." What's truly disturbing is how horrified Cramblett is about basically being stuck with a black child:
Jennifer was crying, confused and upset. All of the thought, care and planning that she and [her partner] Amanda had undertaken to control their baby's parentage had been rendered meaningless. In an instant, Jennifer's excitement and anticipation of her pregnancy was replaced with anger, disappointment and fear.
Here's to hoping her daughter never reads about this later in life.
[via NBC News]
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