Dutch Sperm Donor Who Fathered 550 Babies Sued For Increasing Risk Of Accidental Incest
Mr Meijer is a musician by profession and a resident of Kenya. He is being sued by the Dutch mother of one of his biological children and the DonorKind Foundation on behalf of 25 families.
A sperm donor in The Hague, Netherlands, who has fathered over 550 children, is being sued because he may be causing an increase in accidental incest. As The Times reported, there have been claims that he misled clinics and put children's mental health at risk.
At least 11 clinics accepting sperm from 41-year-old Jonathan Jacob Meijer were based in the Netherlands.
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Mr Meijer is a musician by profession and a resident of Kenya. He is being sued by the Dutch mother of one of his biological children and the DonorKind Foundation on behalf of twenty-five families.
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Per Dutch regulations, sperm donors shouldn't help father more than 25 children between 12 women.
This is done so that children don't get emotional distress from finding out they had hundreds of brothers and sisters by accident and vice versa.
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The DonorKind Foundation has filed suit against Jonathan Jacob Meijer to prevent him from making more sperm donations.
According to The Telegraph, not only does it want to know where he has donated sperm so far, but it also wants all of his banked sperm to be destroyed unless it's being stored for a mother.
"We are taking action against this man because the government is doing nothing. He has a global reach via the internet and does business with large, international sperm banks," DonorKind foundation chairman Ties van der Meer told the newspaper.
Even though Mr Meijer is not allowed to donate sperm in the Netherlands, the report says that he has done so in other countries, such as Ukraine and Denmark, citing information from the donor database DonorKind.
The foundation said that the donor kept in touch with parents who wanted home insemination through social media and insisted on keeping in touch.
Eva, the mother suing Mr Meijer, said she would have never chosen him if she had known that he "had already fathered more than 100 children".
She added, "If I think about the consequences this could have for my child, I am sick to my stomach".
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