It began a year and a half-ago, and the victim says she still has trouble believing it really happened to her. Kelly Chambliss went to a Wilmington clinic to get pregnant.
Chambliss is 36-years-old, and has a same sex partner. She went to the Coastal Area Health Education Center for artificial insemination.
Chambliss described for us the excruciating physical pain that followed.
"Almost immediately, I was rolling on the ground, vomiting and losing control of my bowels," she said. "I thought I was going to die."
"They said I could still have children, but I could never go through that again. I was violated," Chambliss said.
Chambliss has won a legal judgement against the independent clinic, called AHEC. Later this spring, a jury will decide how much money in damages she's entitled to.
The attorney for the clinic tells News 6 that they're accepting full responsibility for the mistake. But they don't believe any long-term damage was done.