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He Faked Pregnancies: The Doctor Who Used Hormones to Lie
He Faked Pregnancies: The Doctor Who Used Hormones to Lie
The idea that a trusted fertility doctor could manufacture pregnancy symptoms with injections and false ultrasounds shocks the body and the mind: at least fifteen children were later confirmed by DNA to be fathered by their mothers' doctor, and investigators suspected the true number could reach seventy-five. How did a man with a George Washington University title use human chorionic gonadotropin to create believable pregnancies and keep the deception running for years?
In this episode, we tell the story of Cecil Bryan Jacobson, his…
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