Dutch Fertility Doctor Swapped Donors’ Sperm With His, Lawsuit Claims
Moreover, in 2004, the Netherlands passed legislation requiring
that the identities of donors be made available to children conceived using their sperm when the children turn 16 — a factor that has discouraged potential donors, according to Dr. Sjoerd Repping, head of the Center for Reproductive Medicine at the University of Amsterdam Academic Medical Center.
The 12 people, and 10 mothers who suspect that their children were conceived using the clinic director’s sperm, filed a lawsuit on Friday
asking a court in Rotterdam to give them access to the DNA of the clinic director, Dr. Jan Karbaat, who died last month at 89.
By CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZEMAY 15, 2017
THE HAGUE — Twelve people who were conceived with sperm from a Dutch fertility center have filed a lawsuit asserting
that its longtime director is their biological father, and that over several decades, he swapped donors’ sperm with his own.
She visited Dr. Karbaat — then in his mid-80s — and the meeting was friendly, she said, adding
that Dr. Karbaat admitted that he probably was her biological father.
Rumors of impropriety began to circulate after a genetic test on two children conceived at the clinic found
that they were only biological half siblings — not full siblings, as their mother had been told.
Wassenaar said that He said, ‘Let me see your hands; you could be a kid of mine,’
