owner of fertility clinic may have fathered 600 children

[brainhulk]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sidesho...thered-600-children-sperm-bank-200102619.html

New DNA tests suggest the owner of a British fertility clinic may have fathered as many as 600 children, while keeping his donations a secret. And in an even stranger twist, one of his newly discovered offspring says the man's belief in eugenics may have been behind the decision.
The Telegraph reports that Bertold Wiesner and his wife operated a fertility clinic in the 1940s and were responsible for helping more than 1,500 families conceive. Two of the children conceived through clinic donations, Barry Stevens and David Gollancz, took part in DNA testing that revealed both were conceived using Wiesner's sperm.
"Using standard figures for the number of live births which result, including allowances for twins and miscarriages, I estimate that he is responsible for between 300 and 600 children," Gollancz told the paper.
Eighteen people conceived through the clinic between 1943 and 1962 were tested, with about two-thirds of them matching Wiesner's DNA. However, it's nearly impossible to determine exactly how many of the 1,500 children came directly from Wiesner, since his wife Mary Barton reportedly destroyed the records from the clinic. Wiesner himself died in the early 1970s.

spread that seed!

 

[vi edit]

He's not the only one...

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/so_seedy_he_pa_to_kids_o5lXKlMPAFZi1ATReXrVYK

At least that guy I linked was on a retainer for the clinic and not the owner/operator/baby gravy donator.

 

[dennilfloss]

Wasn't there a Law & Order/NCIS/House episode involving a situation like this?

 

[zinfamous]

He was reading about Genghis Khan, got all jelly, then decided to try and one-up him.

 

[PingSpike]

That guy has some balls.

 

[FoBoT]

that guys a jerk
a total jerk off

 

[TwiceOver]

Wasn't there a Law & Order/NCIS/House episode involving a situation like this?

Yes. It was a regular Law & Order episode.

 

[Texashiker]

He was reading about Genghis Khan, got all jelly, then decided to try and one-up him.

I saw a program on the discovery channel about Genghis Khan. The program said Genghis might have fathered hundreds of kids. Scientist say a certain percentage of asia are descendants of Genghis Khan.

As for the OP, 2,000 years from now scientist will be trying to figure out how one man fathered so many children.

 

[silverpig]

Wasn't there a Law & Order/NCIS/House episode involving a situation like this?

There was a Law & Order about this for sure, and this is also why I clicked on the thread.

It was back in the Jill Hennessy / Michael Moriarty days. Basically the sperm clinic doctor was using his own sperm for all the donations. They caught him because they found out he wasn't paying for any more disease testing on the sperm anymore.

"But how could you be SURE that none of the sperm was infected? He wouldn't risk his practice over something like that."
"The son of a bitch was using his own sperm!"