An employee of the laboratory of a reproductive medicine clinic in the Dutch city of Leiden and with the genetic disorder, she conceived at least 11 children secretly used his own sperm between 1979 and 1985, which he managed to hide by using another man’s donor registration number.

The employee in question is still alive, but refuses to cooperate in MCK’s investigation, center that manages the archives of the SMCG clinic in Leiden, which no longer exists, to try to find women who were treated at the center, possible descendants and former employees to clarify the situation, as published this Wednesday by a local station Omroep West.

The inseminations took place between 1979 and 1985, and the employee used her own sperm for the treatment. without official registration as a sperm donor, and the use of another man’s donor registration number in the administration, as a clinic employee himself admitted in 2017, when he was found by two of his biological descendants.

Although it has not been made public until today, This scandalous case was discovered last year.when two people were born through sperm donation and were linked on paper, They realized that their DNA did not match. When comparisons are made in an international database, MyLegacythey discovered that one of them matched the DNA of the others two more people were also born through donation and their mothers who were treated at SMCG.

In 2015, this laboratory assistant a hereditary disease was diagnosed, although for confidentiality reasons this condition is not disclosed. “This is a genetic abnormality that It is passed on to the next generation in 50% of cases. People have the right to know,” said Arne van Heusden, director of MCK, stressing that this disease “not life threatening” of those who suffer from it.

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Cases of gynecologists who used their own sperm in infertility treatment are increasingly being identified in the Netherlands.

They were identified at least ten gynecologists who used his sperm without the women’s knowledge who wanted to get pregnant in their clinics. two of them were clinic director Jan Karbaat with 81 children confirmed; and gynecologist Jan Wildschut, who had at least 47 children.

One of the latest cases was identified in November 2022. A Dutch man who recently died of oesophageal cancer donated his sperm to women he contacted online and in the Netherlands he would have fathered at least 80 children.

(EFE)