A Missouri mother is suing for the cost of raising her one-year-old daughter after she fell pregnant due to a botched course of her birth control pill.

Shanta Russell, 33, was stunned when a pregnancy test she took in June 2011 came up positive despite the fact she'd religiously taken the contraceptive pill for more than 12 years.

Three months later, she received a recall notice in the mail from Qualitest Pharmaceuticals informing her that the birth control pills had mistakenly been put in the wrong order in the blister pack, rendering the drug ineffective.