r/offbeat • u/Brucekentbatsuper • 22h ago
Fertility Doctor Accused of Secretly Fathering Patient's Son With His Own Sperm in Bombshell Lawsuit
https://radaronline.com/p/fertility-doctor-accused-secretly-fathering-patients-son/85
u/AutumnMama 21h ago
WHY ARE THEY ALWAYS DOING THIS
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u/miss_taken_identity 21h ago
Same reason there are a not an insignificant amount of firefighters charged with arson.
Edit: missed a word
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u/PeterNippelstein 18h ago
Well if you think about it its the nature of every animal to desire to have as many offspring as possible so they can pass on their genetics. Its like lizard brain instinct.
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u/PiDigitsOfPi 18h ago
Why though? I mean, of all the dumb things you can do that could possibly lead back to you, this one is by far the most obvious and conclusive.
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u/shelchang 18h ago edited 22m ago
DNA ancestry sites weren't a thing in the 1980s. Even forensic DNA testing wasn't really a thing yet, it was still a new technology during the OJ Simpson trial in the mid 1990s. The fertility doctors who pulled stuff like this in the 70s and 80s simply thought they'd never get found out.
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u/Obi-Brawn-Kenobi 22h ago
How did they determine DNA relationship to the doc? Was it just the ancestry website? I guess if it's true it could have technically been a son or nephew of the doc, not that that would be much better
If the allegations turn out to be true, why would a doctor serially sneaking his own sperm into his patients sign up for ancestry.com? Seems like he could've thought that one out better.
Never hear of this website but this was one vague, poorly substantiated, ad-infested article. Next time try posting a real news site
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u/Lord_Unico 21h ago
Usually, they are found out by someone in their family finding up for ancestry websites.
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u/SaintUlvemann 21h ago
...why would a doctor serially sneaking his own sperm into his patients sign up for ancestry.com?
Wouldn't have to be him himself. If a relative of the doctor's signs up for it, that could be enough to let an investigator connect the dots over time.
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u/BuoyantBear 19h ago
I remember hearing years ago that only 15% of the the population's DNA needs to be in a database to be able to map the entire population.
Probably need even less with modern computation.
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u/drunky_crowette 21h ago
My oldest sister found out who her bio-dad is because his sister had uploaded her DNA to Ancestry.com.
Apparently really threw my mom for a loop when my sister called her up and asked "who the fuck is (guy) and why does Ancestry say his sister is my aunt?"
Apparently he and mom dated briefly before she got with my dad.
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u/Rehcraeser 19h ago
If it’s similar to the story I saw yesterday on here, the baby came out black when they ordered a white one
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u/approvedbyinspector5 17h ago
Watch (or don't watch depending on how depressed you want to get) the documentary called "Our Father".
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u/aresef 2h ago edited 1h ago
There was a fertility doc named Donald Cline who, in the 1970s and 1980s, secretly used his own sperm to father 94 children. It didn’t come to light until 2014, when a woman using 23andMe or whatever found out she had at least eight half-siblings. She went to the Indiana attorney general, whose office interviewed this guy and they lied to him. So he was charged for that and got a one year suspended sentence. He’s since been taken to the cleaners in civil cases.
He normally wouldn’t have even been eligible to donate, since he has rheumatoid arthritis. Many of his children have auto-immune disorders. And many of them live near one another, so there was the possibility they or their children could’ve dated one another, and that presents a whole bunch of problems.
Indiana and other states have changed their laws to make what Cline did a crime going forward. There's a Netflix doc and a podcast about what he did.
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u/Unable-Plate7216 10h ago
Its super fucking commen, some fertility doctors were in epateins payroll
So........ lots of you supported that
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u/AFewBerries 22h ago
I've definitely heard of this happening before