Shameka Bransford, a pregnant single mother who suffers from sickle cell anemia, claims an employee with the Tennessee Department of Human Services wasn’t going to approve her food stamps application without something in return.

“Basically if I did all these things I would qualify and get my food stamps,” Bransford tells News Channel 5.

Those things, she says, included meeting the bureaucrat under a bridge near the department to give him “sexual favors.”

Bransford’s attorneys, Mary Parker and Stephen Crofford, are now suing the state, saying the demands were inappropriate.

“I just looked at him and told him I had to go. He was going on a lunch break and wanted to meet me under a bridge and I just went home,” she says.

She never ended up getting approved and is afraid to go to the office again.

“Instead of helping people we have a person who wants to trade sex for food stamps,” Crofford tells the news station.