The New York couple has sued the fertility center for unspecified compensatory and punitive damages, and the Los Angeles-based biological parents of one of the babies also filed a lawsuit for emotional distress, according to a news release from the law firm representing the L.A. couple.
A second lawsuit involving one of the three couples whose in vitro fertilization process resulted in embryos implanted in the wrong woman is suing the California fertility clinic after they discovered their biological son was born to another set of parents who live in NY.
Anni Manukyan said that the clinic's chief operating officer called the couple in to take a DNA test in mid-April, two weeks after their son was born, for what they claimed was a quality control test.
The "heartbreaking" mix-up over a bungled IVF treatment given to a Queens woman - which led her to give birth to two strangers' babies - was worse than previously known.
Each child born to the NY woman was found to be a genetic match to a different couple, lawyers said.
They were then forced to give up the babies to their true genetic parents.
Anni and Ashot Manukyan, who are biological parents of one of the baby boys, have revealed that not only was their embryo given to the wrong person, Anni was implanted with yet another stranger's embryo in its place.
"It means that we live with the uncertainty that another embryo of ours may be born to someone else", Anni Manukyan said.
The second baby boy allegedly comes from egg and sperm of a third, unrelated couple.
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Their lawsuit says the couple then discovered "much to their horror" that their son had been "implanted into a stranger that later became his birth mother". "It was heartbreaking. It was bad", Anni Manukyan said.
Anni and Ashot Manukyan appreciate now taken custody of 1 in all the youth. "Weeks later, Anni and Ashot learned that they had a son, but CHA refused to provide any further information regarding the identity of the NY couple or the whereabouts of their son".
"CHA [Fertility Clinic] put three families through a living hell, and our lives will never be the same".
The Unique York couple - identified very finest as AP and YZ within the lawsuit to present protection to them from "embarrassment and humiliation" - gave birth to 2 boys who had been now not of Asian descent, as they are.
As it turned out, both couples were treated at the CHA Fertility Center at nearly the same time.
They had to sue in family court to obtain custody, and the boy was six weeks old by the time they got to see him, they said. "We are human beings", Anni Manukyan said. They also do not know what became of their two female embryos.
'Who wants to meet their child in the lobby of a hotel? "We can never forgive CHA".
Anni and Ashot Manukyan, from the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale, said their embryos, as well as those of two other couples, were mishandled by the CHA Fertility Centre.
"Until states establish uniformity, having children through surrogates and artificial reproductive technologies will continue to be problematic", Maya Shulman, a Los Angeles family lawyer and IVF legal expert, said in an email statement.
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