Sperm bank sued as case of mentally ill donor’s history unfolds

Apr 15, 2016 by

by Ashifa Kassam, Guardian:

He was touted as the best of the best: Donor 9623 had an IQ of 160 and was an internationally acclaimed drummer who was working towards a PhD in neuroscience engineering.

A lawsuit, filed on Wednesday by three families in Canada, alleges the donor was instead a convicted felon with multiple mental illness diagnoses, including schizophrenia.

Filed against Georgia-based Xytex Corp and Outreach Health in Canada, the lawsuit alleges that the donor’s sperm was used for as many as 36 children in Canada, the United States and Britain.

“If proven, this takes the case from shocking to truly outrageous,” the families’ lawyer, James Fireman, told the Toronto Star.

Xytex denied any wrongdoing through its lawyer, Ted Lavender. “Xytex is an industry leader and complies with all industry standards in how they safely and carefully help provide the gift of children to families who are otherwise unable to have them without this assistance,” Lavender said in an email to the Guardian. Outreach Health did not respond to a request for comment.

The lawsuit seeks C$15.4m ($12m) in damages and relates to three children, ranging in age from four to eight years old, created from the donor’s sperm.

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