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He Used His Own Sperm: 94 Children, One Doctor's Secret Explored
He Used His Own Sperm: 94 Children, One Doctor's Secret Explored
Curiosity turned into legal bewilderment: a single mail-order DNA kit in 2014 connected Jacoba Ballard to eight half-siblings in Indianapolis, all tracing back to the same fertility clinic and the same doctor - a discovery that later expanded to 94 children and revealed a practice the law had no words for. How did a trusted reproductive endocrinologist come to be the biological father of so many, and why did prosecutors say there was nothing they could charge him with?
In this episode, we follow how a consumer DNA result sparked…
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