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A Dutch court will allow DNA testing of the late Jan Karbaat's personal belongings. The fertility clinic doctor had been accused of fathering children with his own sperm:
A Dutch court has approved a request by families seeking DNA tests on the belongings of a late fertility clinic doctor accused of using his own sperm in dozens of cases. Jan Karbaat is suspected of fathering about 60 children at the centre he ran in Bijdorp, near Rotterdam. Tests will now be conducted on items seized from his home after his death in April, at the age of 89.
A lawyer for his family said there was no evidence to support the claims. Jan Karbaat called himself "a pioneer in the field of fertilisation".
Ethics! Also at DW.
"Related": IVF Error May Have Affected 26 Dutch Women (separate incident)
(Score: 4, Informative) by FakeBeldin on Saturday June 03 2017, @07:04PM (3 children)
From Auntie Beep:
So: one of his acknowledged, legitimate children appears (by DNA testing) to have 19 half-brother/sisters. It's not exactly clear how it the initial suspicion was raised (some talk about resemblance, which sounds like shaky grounds for a suspicion), but once it was raised, it led to this test.
But a DNA test which shows that 19 people born after IVF treatment were his children.... that's slightly more than "no evidence".
The Grauniad [theguardian.com] has some more details on it.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Saturday June 03 2017, @10:21PM (2 children)
So did the family rush this geezer into the oven upon his death so as to avoid lawsuits or something?
Why are they taking DNA from his possessions, is the body gone?
If his son is a half sibling to 19 other kids Its pretty clear those 19 kids didn't have the same mother.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 04 2017, @11:06PM (1 child)
He can still bang them right? That wouldn't be counted against him.
(Score: 2) by FakeBeldin on Monday June 05 2017, @08:44AM
Though news reports are light on details, as far as I can tell the 19 kids were all conceived IVF - so without banging, and unclear whose sperm was used. From the Guardian's article:
(Score: 2) by inertnet on Saturday June 03 2017, @08:39PM (2 children)
Small correction for TFS: Blijdorp, not Bijdorp.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday June 03 2017, @08:58PM (1 child)
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bijdorp [wikipedia.org] ?
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(Score: 2) by inertnet on Sunday June 04 2017, @11:01AM
Ah, I see. I looked it up and it appears that the clinic's name was "Bijdorp", which isn't a city but the name of a district in the city of Barendrecht where it was located. That's why I never heard of it and assumed that it would be Blijdorp.
Blijdorp is also a district, but in Rotterdam. With a famous zoo 'Blijdorp', only a couple of miles from district Bijdorp in Barendrecht...
So it wasn't a typo, but someone mistook Bijdorp to be the name of a "city near Rotterdam", which isn't correct.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 03 2017, @08:43PM
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(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday June 04 2017, @03:42AM (2 children)
the fertility clinic owner was some ugly old bald guy. I saw an editorial cartoon that depicted a bunch of ugly old bald kids.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 04 2017, @05:38AM (1 child)
The guy was a doctor.
That is the type of person that women like getting sperm from.
(Score: 2) by meustrus on Monday June 05 2017, @03:52PM
Unless they are getting sperm from their husband, after failing to conceive naturally.
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?