More than 100 N.C. Eugenics Matches Made
By Herbet L. White,
Charlotte Post
| 03. 19. 2012
More than 100 people have been verified as unwitting sterilization victims of North Carolina’s Eugenics program.
The N.C. Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation announced Monday that 111 individuals who underwent procedures have been matched to Eugenics Board program records. Forty-eight of N.C.’s 100 counties had at least one verified match, led by Lenoir County’s 18 among 61 procedures.
Mecklenburg, which had the highest number of procedures of any county with 495, was second with 10 verifications and Wake County with nine. Three counties in the top 10 for number of procedures – No. 5 Buncombe (139), No. 8 Scotland (114) and No. 10 Hertford (106) – have no matches.
“I am putting together the compensation plan for inclusion in my budget and I encourage anyone who believes they are a victim to contact the Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation,” Gov. Bev Perdue said in a statement. “They are working hard to identify individuals who were affected, and the steady increase in matches with archived records is an important step in this process.”
The foundation has received more than 1,300 phone...
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