Sperm Donor Who Fathered Over 550 Children Ordered To Stop By Dutch Court

A courtroom docket withinside the Netherlands on Friday banned a person from donating any greater of his sperm after he became suspected of fathering greater than 550 kids. The guy named Jonathan Jacob Meijer elderly 41, will be fined greater than 100,000 Euros (Rs 90,41,657) if he attempts to donate again, BBC reported.
The stunning case got here to the limelight after a basis and the mom of one of the kids filed a lawsuit towards him in Hague. The choose who heard the civil case stated the donor “misinformed potential dad and mom approximately the quantity of kids he had already fathered withinside the past.`’

“All those dad and mom are actually faced with the truth that the kids of their own circle of relatives are a part of a large kinship network, with loads of half-siblings, which they did now no longer choose. The courtroom docket prohibits the defendant from donating his semen to new potential dad and mom after the issuing of this judgement,” Judge Hesselink stated in a ruling on Friday.

He has additionally been ordered now no longer to touch any potential dad and mom “with the want that he became inclined to donate semen… market it his offerings to potential dad and mom or be a part of any employer that establishes touch among potential dad and mom,” Mr Hesselink added,

Notably, Mr Meijer donated his sperm to as a minimum thirteen clinics, with eleven of them placed withinside the Netherlands. According to Dutch scientific guidelines, sperm donors have to now no longer donate to greater than 12 ladies or have to now no longer father over 25 kids. This is to save you instances of unintentional breeding and mental issues in kids who may also get disturbed after mastering that they’ve loads of siblings.

However, he helped produce among 550 and six hundred kids considering that he began out donating sperm in 2007. In 2017, he became banned from donating to fertility clinics withinside the Netherlands. Instead of preventing he carried on donating sperm overseas and online.

The mom of one of the kids withinside the courtroom docket case stated she became thankful that the courtroom docket had stopped the person from ”mass donations that [have] unfold like wildfire to different countries”.

“I’m asking the donor to recognize our pursuits and to just accept the decision due to the fact our youngsters should be left alone,” she stated in an respectable statement.

However, the donor’s attorney stated in a courtroom docket listening to that he desired to assist dad and mom who might in any other case be not able to conceive. A musician via way of means of profession, Mr Meijer presently lives in Kenya.