A retired Indianapolis fertility doctor used his own sperm to impregnate at least eight mothers decades ago and admitted to six now-adult children to doing so, court documents say.
Dr. Donald Cline faces two felony obstruction of justice charges for misleading authorities who were investigating two of the children's complaints against him.
He surrendered in court on Monday.
The 77-year-old suburban Zionsville man told the six adults that he had donated his own sperm about 50 times, a probable cause affidavit says.
His patients were told they were receiving sperm from medical residents or students.
Cline is accused of being the biological father of at least eight people. The youngest would be about 30.
The six adults conceived through Cline's clinic in the 1970s and 1980s discovered they were siblings born to the same biological father through online DNA tests, Fox59 reported.
The siblings met with Cline in the spring of this year and he told them that he had used his own sperm when a donor was not available, according to court documents.
He also told them that he had kept records of which patients received his sperm but all of those have since been destroyed since Indiana only required medical records be kept for seven years.
He didn't consider himself to be fathering children, but helping families unable to conceive, Cline said in an interview with Fox.
His attorney is expected to release a statement on Monday afternoon.
He was released on his own recognizance and a hearing is scheduled for next month.
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He was only helping okwaya???? Was d service for free???
ReplyDeleteDid d women ask for unknown donor or you forced your charity down their neck????
😬why?
DeleteWell, they shouldn't prosecute him hard. Like he said, he only did that when donors were unavailable.
DeleteIt is a wrong thing to do but then, they should just let him go and live with the guilt of having many children he doesn't know.
Awwww.. he was just helping na. But then again...
DeleteHahahahahahahaha! Dis funny! A serious case shaa. The husbands of those ladies re they impotent? Lel.........
ReplyDeletewhat a question.
DeleteGood for him..
ReplyDeleteWho indeed knows what goes on in the hearts of Men?
ReplyDeleteTwisted Man!
Honestly I would have considered this a crime if he went ahead to blackmail any of his patients afterwards. Or if they sought to know the real donor and he lied. But it was meant to be a random thing na. Not unless his sperm caused a defect of some sort. I'd say he was just amongst the random sperm donors jare. But the law and ethics must prevail. Lol
Delete😕😕 Hmmmm
ReplyDeleteHian!!!!!
ReplyDeleteEvil has been on ground since 1900. They even do this to women as well at the hospital collecting their eggs unknowingly to them. Don't asked me how it's possible, just be vigilant
ReplyDeleteWrong on all levels.
ReplyDeleteHe was just helping out nah....hahahahhaahaha.....don't know wat to make from dis story sha....
ReplyDeleteHe should be freed, they ought to be grateful to him and not the other way round.
ReplyDelete*Faithful bv*
I think so too.
DeleteHmmmm,ppl ehn.don't no what to say sef
ReplyDeleteIf you help you are in trouble
ReplyDeleteHe was only helping out they should be grateful. If he's not disturbing the families involved as per claiming the children I don't see anything bad in what he did. My own thinking sha.
ReplyDeleteI tire o
DeleteI don't see anything wrong as a matter of fact they should be grateful. See fine brilliant man.
ReplyDeleteEiyaaah! He was only helping naa
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