Elaine Riddick is just one out of 7,600 victims that were sterilized in the state of North Carolina without knowing.
At the age of 14 years old the state of North Carolina, deemed Ms. Riddick unfit to have any more children. She became pregnant after being raped by her neighbor who was ten years her senior, and when the time came to deliver her baby through a cesarean section -- unbeknownst to her the doctors sterilized her.
The state of North Carolina claimed they sterilized Ms. Riddick, due to her being mentally deficient or “feeble-minded” as official records note.
Riddick, along with an estimated 2,000 victims of North Carolina’s forced sterilization program will have to wait until February of 2012, to find out whether they’ll be compensated or not.
Riddick, along with an estimated 2,000 victims of North Carolina’s forced sterilization program will have to wait until February of 2012, to find out whether they’ll be compensated or not.
The Things That Make You Go Hmmmm...
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Watch the video below to see what these victims endured.
