Elaine Riddick Feels Violated All Over Again. After enduring a lifetime of humiliation and regret, she can barely control her outrage. The $50,000 now offered to her only makes her angrier. Elaine Riddick was only 14 when North Carolina’s State’s Eugenics Board decided that she was not capable of mothering children and forcibly sterilized her by cauterized her fallopian tubes. Nearly 44 years later, the state of North Carolina has proposed compensate Riddick and other victims of its eugenics program $50,000 each. Between 1929 and 1974, nearly 7,600 people were sterilized under orders from North Carolina’s Eugenics Board. Nearly 85% were women or girls, some as young as 10. The state estimates that 1,500 to 2,000 of the victims are still alive. To its credit, North Carolina is the first state to consider compensation for victims of forced sterilization According to most estimates, there are at likely 65,000 victims of forced sterilization in at least 30 states. This figure does not include the forced sterilization of Native American Women under the care of the Native American Health Care System.