A Denver doctor secretly fertilized his own patients: his children found each other using DNA tests
'05.11.2019'
Source: Medialeaks
The woman found relatives with the help of DNA, but this is an unpleasant discovery. They have a lot of questions and all - to one doctor.
A group of U.S. residents using a DNA test found out that everyone has at least eight brothers and sisters. But for some, the news turned their lives, because they found out that they can have a common father. And now they are suing a potential dad, because he seems to have committed a serious crime, conceived them, writes Medialeaks.
A resident of Denver, who wished to remain anonymous, told CBS Denver that she had done a DNA test in 2019 and provided her result to a pedigree search portal. Among the relatives discovered were two women who were American and half sisters to each other. Everything would be fine, but each of them was conceived using artificial insemination with the seed of an anonymous donor. And the mothers of all three had a medical procedure with Dr. Paul Jones from Colorado.
The American, apparently, knew that she was born after her mother in the 80's went to the reproductive health clinic in Grand Junction. But the sudden discovery of three relatives, who also resorted to the help of Mr. Jones, seemed to her suspicious.
“I began to think that something strange was happening. I had suspicions that the donor material as such was not used, and someone else was involved in everything, ”the woman says.
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Maya Emmons-Borin from San Antonio also did a DNA test, and then received a message from a genealogy portal user who turned out to be a relative of her, 9News reports. As in the case of a resident of Denver, this man was half her brother or sister (gender is not called).
“My father was a donor in Grand Junction, Colorado. I found (found) three more of my half-sisters and one brother, whose parents also used the services at the same clinic, ”the message to Maya said.
Emmons-Borin began to analyze information about herself and relatives on the portal and realized that the message was not a joke. She suspected something was wrong and, together with her sister, Tanya, talked with her parents. The world of women, they said, turned upside down: the Americans learned that both were born thanks to an anonymous donor. It turned out that their dad survived testicular cancer, after which the couple had difficulty conceiving, and they twice resorted to artificial insemination with other people's sperm. In both cases, the doctor was ... right, the same Paul Jones from Grand Junction.
As a result, a group of sisters and brothers grew to nine people. A new unpleasant surprise awaited them: it turned out that they were all relatives of the brother of Paul Jones, who had also used the site’s site to search for loved ones using DNA. This was found out by a specialist in genealogy, which was hired by Maya. The first told Emmons-Borin that her half-brothers and sisters could be the children of Dr. Jones.
A resident of Denver and part of her new relatives turned to lawyer Paul Graisen for help. The woman told CBS that all fertilization from the same donor, judging by the dates of birth of her clients, occurred over a period of 20 years. Paula plans to sue Jones. The interests of other brothers and sisters are represented by lawyer Patrick Fitz-Gerald, who has already filed a lawsuit against the doctor.
True, what punishment threatens a man (and whether it threatens) is still unknown. There is no separate law in Colorado that doctors are forbidden to secretly use their seed in artificial insemination. So the lawyers plan to bring Paul under the article on intentional deception - if Jones is really the father of all nine people, then it will be easy to convict him. Indeed, the mothers of many of those who turned to lawyers made it clear: the doctor informed them that the biological father of the children would be an anonymous donor.
Paul Jones himself has already commented on the allegations, but did not give a clear answer. The man said: he will neither confirm nor deny the information that he fertilized the clients with his sperm. The doctor also said that he did not intend to do a DNA test to check if he was Maye Emmons-Borin's father, because he did not want evidence against him. But at the same time, Paul, he said, is ready to go through the procedure if the woman withdraws the lawsuit.
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However, some of Maya’s relatives are sure even without a test that the doctor is their biological father. And they all want one thing from Paul: answers.
“It just blows my head off. Why would anyone do that? I dont know. I feel sorry for my mom and dad because they had no idea either, ”said Ryan Gray, half-brother of Emmons-Borin.
Paul's other alleged daughter, Shauna Halts, asks a similar question: “I want to know why. I want to know how many times he did it. I want to know the history of his illnesses. "
But it may not be all the possible children of Jones, whom he managed to conceive with the help of his seed. Dr. Jodie Madeira and Patrick Fitz-Gerald are sure that other half-brothers and sisters whose mothers underwent the procedure under Paul will be announced soon.
