When people send away samples for DNA testing they're often hoping the results can help them trace the lineage of their families over centuries and across continents. But when Kelli Rowlette received her results from Ancestry.com she discovered a much closer connection — about 500 miles away from where she lives — dating back to May 20, 1981. Her own birthday.
The results showed Rowlette's biological father was not the man she'd always known, but a stranger named Gerald Mortimer. A man she later found out had been her parents' fertility doctor and had impregnated her mother with his own sperm without her mother's knowledge or consent.
Last week Rowlette filed a lawsuit in U. S. District Court in Idaho against Mortimer, his wife Linda McKinnon Mortimer and Obstetrics and Gynecology Associates of Idaho Falls, seeking $10 million in damages for fraud, medical negligence, battery and several other charges related to the alleged deception.
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6 comments:
This so called doctor should get a life sentence for this.
What's the problem? Retail employees usually get a discount on merchandise, restaurant employees get a discount on meals, university professors get free or discounted tuition for their kids. Lots of professionals exchange perks within their professions.
Hey, a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do...
Unh!
All this whining about not getting bottled and had to settle for draft.
Dr. just took matters into his own hands is all.
Well at least those kids are going to be pretty smart and could become doctors.
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