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Sterilization Victim “Raped By The State Of NC”

06/23/2011 8:08 am 0 comments

Source: Kelly Cobiella / CBS News

RALEIGH – At 57, Elaine Riddick has a house full of god children, great nieces and nephews, but only one child of her own – a son. When she was 14, Riddick was raped. The day she gave birth, doctors sterilized her on orders from the state of North Carolina.

“They said that I was feeble-minded, they said that I was promiscuous,” Riddick tells CBS News correspondent Kelly Cobiella.

Riddick was one of nine children, poor, from a broken home. Her illiterate grandmother signed the sterilization papers with an “x.”

What happened to Riddick in North Carolina happened to more than 60,000 people in 32 states, from the 1920′s to the 1970s under state-sanctioned sterilization programs aimed at cutting welfare costs.

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