When an Oregon medical student was asked to donate sperm, he was promised that only 5 offspring would be born — all on the other side of the country — according to a lawsuit alleging a clinic violated the agreement by allowing births of at least 17 babies
Now a doctor, Bryce Cleary claims in his $5.25 million lawsuit that Oregon Health & Science University didn't adhere to a stipulation that his sperm could only be used by women living on the East Coast. The result, the lawsuit says: Most, if not all, of the 17 were born in Oregon, and some of the children went to the same schools, church or social functions as their half-siblings without knowing they were related.
com and"specific and substantive information" from the fertility clinic itself to identify him and other siblings.Cleary then sent off his own DNA to Ancestry.com, and that led to the discovery that he had at least 17 offspring born through his sperm donations, the lawsuit says.'I knew something was wrong'"When the matches came back, I knew something was wrong," Cleary said."There were four instant matches and the odds of that happening was not reasonable.
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