Biological Father of 550 Children Stopped by Court Donating Sperms
As per the BBC report, a man named, Jonathan Meijer, aged 41 has been ordered by the court in the Netherlands to stop donating his sperms, otherwise, he could be fined more than 100,000 Euros (Rs 90,41,657) if he tries to donate again.
This man has been donating his sperm since 2007 and as per the court, he is suspected to be the father of more than 550 children.
This shocking case came to the limelight after a foundation and the mother of one of the children filed a lawsuit against him in Hague.
The judge who heard the civil case said the donor “misinformed prospective parents about the number of children he had already fathered in the past.”
Though he was already banned from donating to IVF fertility clinics in the Netherlands in 2017 after it emerged he had fathered more than 100 children. But instead of stopping he carried on donating sperm abroad and online.
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But his time court in The Hague has told him to provide a list of all the clinics he had used and to order them to destroy his sperm.
The man was said to have misled hundreds of women. And as per the Dutch clinical guidelines state that a donor should not father more than 25 children in 12 families.
But judges said the man had helped produce between 550 and 600 children since he began donating sperm in 2007.
He was taken to court by a foundation protecting donor children’s rights, and by the mother of one of the children allegedly fathered from his sperm.
Though she said, she was grateful that the court had stopped the man from ”mass donations that [have] spread like wildfire to other countries”.
“I’m asking the donor to respect our interests and to accept the verdict because our children deserve to be left alone,” she said in an official statement.
However, the donor’s lawyer said in a court hearing that he wanted to help parents who would otherwise be unable to conceive. A musician by profession, Mr Meijer currently lives in Kenya.
