Dutch judges have ordered a man suspected of fathering more than 550 children through sperm donations to stop donating, in the latest fertility scandal to shock the Netherlands.

The man, identified in Dutch media only as Jonathan M, 41, was taken to court by a foundation protecting the rights of donor children and by the mother of one of the children allegedly fathered from his sperm.

Dutch clinical guidelines say a donor should not father more than 25 children in 12 families, but judges said the man had helped produce between 550 and 600 children since he started donating sperm in 2007.

The court therefore “prohibits the defendant from donating his semen to new prospective parents after the issuing of this judgment”, judge Thera Hesselink said on Friday.

Jonathan M may also not contact any prospective parents “with the wish that he was willing to donate semen … advertise his services to prospective parents or join any organisation that establishes contact between prospective parents”, Hesselink said in a written judgment.

Should he continue with his donations, he would face a €100,000 (£88,000) fine for each transgression, as well as additional fines, the judge ordered.



The mother of one of the children in the court case, identified only as “Eva”, said she was grateful that the court had stopped the man from “mass donations that [have] spread like wildfire to other countries”.

“I’m asking the donor to respect our interests and to accept the verdict, because our children deserve to be left alone,” she said in a statement.

More than 100 of Jonathan M’s children were born in Dutch clinics and others privately, but he also donated to a Danish clinic – named as Cryos in court papers – which then dispatched his semen to private addresses in various countries.

“The donor deliberately misinformed prospective parents about the number of children he had already fathered in the past,” the district court in The Hague said.

“All these parents are now confronted with the fact that the children in their family are part of a huge kinship network, with hundreds of half-siblings, which they did not choose,” it said.

The court considered it “sufficiently plausible” that this has or could have negative psychosocial consequences for the children.

This included psychological problems around identity and fears of incest.

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Is it a crime to aspire to be like Abraham?

Wonders

Let begins sperm donations in Nigeria
A lucrative business!

Helinues or moh247 ?

jetwonder:

Let begins sperm donations in Nigeria
A lucrative business!

Sarrki an helinues go rich be that

He wants to be the father of many nations

Chai! The man must be super fertile. Just fathering kids like litters everywhere.

I no understand.... that one too na crime?

A feminist that requires a child without strings (marriage) to a man but still needs a man for his sperm is challenging the man for doing exactly what she needed the most so others like her won't find their comfort.



If I understand women make I bend.

What a donation

Ewww kind of irritating

I think his offence is not disclosing how many kids he has fathered.
Aside that, the man was just trying to help humanity.

Go Yee and reproduce.

jetwonder:

Let begins sperm donations in Nigeria
A lucrative business!

Nope


Go and work for your food

Okoroawusa:
I no understand.... that one too na crime?

Fear of incest..okoro

Racoon:
Chai! The man must be super fertile. Just fathering kids like litters everywhere.

almost all men are


Read where it said that he deceived the prospective parents about how many kids he's fathered already


A psycho he is

Boomkalakuta:


Sarrki an helinues go rich be that

how much kwanu
10 to 15k
Is not lucrative

It is evil.. It is immoral ... It is against God's order for reproduction.. It is in the same class as adultery.. What if the sperm donor is a demon in human flesh? What will happen to you or your family afterwards?

There's a high possibility of some of those 550 kids meeting and marrying themselves in the future.

The guy. His children will probably commit incest without knowing

werey... kukuma born your own country na... oloshi... he wan create him own planet.... are you ethos

Long overdue

Afamsi:
It is evil.. It is immoral ... It is against God's order for reproduction

How?

Lol this one is on a distribution spree....


If dem no hold am well he fit migrate to another country and start from der again...

What a job!

Lol. It’s enough to order him. Before we know it half of the world’s population will be products of his sperm

Wahala

This is small, compared to what a man told me he gave birth to, some years back while in the US. He left for America in his early 20s. On getting to US, he refused to go to school and joined a group in the aurora area of Chicago. According to him, he was always worried as some married women would stay with their husbands without a child. One day, he found his way into a married woman and they became friends. She got her pregnant. The husband was so happy, thinking it was his effort. The woman introduced this man to her friend, and he kept impregnating them. Before doing this, they'd both enter into an agreement that, he'd not claim the child. Once pregnancy was confirmed, he'd be paid off.

He left for another state and continued. According to him, women kept coming. Some had 2-3 kids through him. He said he kept seeing his children left, right and centre but couldn't claim them. He said they were more than 700 in different states he lived. He was in his 60s when I met this man at the Canadian embassy at anifowoshe, off kofo abayomi, about 18 years ago. He had repented from his nasty way of life. He also came for his visa. He was a pastor of a church who was going on a mission trip to Canada. He said he gave his life to Christ and stopped the act.