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World Dutch doctor 'fathered 49 children' in IVF scandal
The Dutch doctor, now deceased, allegedly used his own sperm instead of those from a donor to inseminate patients AFP/LLUIS GENE
12 Apr 2019 11:28PM (Updated: 12 Apr 2019 11:37PM)
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THE HAGUE: A deceased Dutch doctor mired in a fertility scandal fathered at least 49 children, an organisation representing parents and children born through IVF at his now-closed clinic said Friday (Apr 12).
Jan Karbaat, who died in 2017, is the direct father of 49 children born after women visited his Rotterdam clinic where he used his own sperm instead of from a chosen donor to inseminate them, Defence for Children said.
Results of DNA tests conducted Friday morning at a hospital in the southeastern city of Nijmegen "showed that 49 children in the case are direct descendants of the late Karbaat", the organisation said in a statement.
"The results confirm serious suspicions that Karbaat used his own sperm at his clinic," Defence for Children added.
The controversial case came became public after a Dutch court ruled in February that the results of Karbaat's DNA test should be made available to parents and children to conduct their own comparisons.
Before his death, Karbaat reportedly admitted to having fathered about 60 children in his time at the discredited clinic which closed in 2009 amid reports of irregularities.
The group of suspected "Karbaat children" dragged his family to court to force them to release Karbaat's DNA profile, which was kept behind locked away in a safe.
The plaintiff's lawyer previously told doctors that children for instance had brown eyes, while a sperm donor was supposedly blue-eyed, or that another male client physically resembled the doctor.
The Karbaat family's lawyers in turn argued that their clients' right to privacy had to be respected.
"However, with the judges agreeing to the paternity test, the judge placed the children's rights above those of Karbaat and his family," Defence for Children advisor Iara de Witte said.
"Now, after years of uncertainty the plaintiffs can finally close a chapter and start processing the fact that they are one of Karbaat's many descendants," De Witte said.
Source: AFP/jt
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醫界醜聞！荷蘭醫生偷換捐贈者精子 法院證實有49名子女
民視
3.5k 人追蹤
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2019年4月14日 下午6:41
來關心一起荷蘭醫界的醜聞，一名2年前過世的婦產科醫師，竟被發現，曾在近40年前在近30年的時間中，偷天換日，把捐贈者的精子換成自己的，就這樣，默默當了49人的父親，而昨天，荷蘭法庭也終於證實，已故醫師的犯行。
13日，荷蘭東部城市奈美根的法庭終於證實，已故的婦產科醫師卡巴特在1980年~2009年中間，確實運用自己的職權，黑心掉包了捐贈者的精子，改用自己的精子，偷偷當了49人的父親。
卡巴特醫師49子女其中一子喬伊：「醫師就是我的生父，同時也是我其他異母兄弟姊妹的父親，我們很高興真相終於清楚了。」
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終於確定生父是誰，並確認自己擁有48位同父異母的手足，男子也難以釐清複雜的情緒，這起震撼荷蘭、偷天換日當爸爸的醜聞於2017年爆發，一群聲稱自己可能是「卡巴特子女」的小團體，集體向荷蘭法院要求保留卡巴特的基因核對，而其中一名男子，甚至與卡巴特長的一模一樣，法庭同意後，隨即展開漫長的鑑定程序。
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早從11年前就懷疑自己的身世，49名子女儘管終於找到自己的源頭，還是得面對許多情感包袱，甚至是來自遺傳的種種生理問題。
49子女代表律師表示，「不提情感傷害另一方面來說，他們做了一些DNA檢測，有些人有基因錯誤，49子女代表律師，因為醫師的精子並未被檢驗過，而那是要燒錢的。」
卡巴特醫師開在靠近鹿特丹的生育診所，因為被控偽造數據，就是有系統地允許，讓捐精者超過捐6次的上限，於2009年關閉，可惜卡巴特醫師早在2017年就過世，所有疑問，也隨著他石沉大海。
（民視新聞／綜合報導）
https://www.thecut.com/2019/04/dutch-ivf-doctor-secretly-used-his-sperm-to-father-49-kids.html
ivf Apr. 12, 2019
A Dutch IVF Doctor Secretly Used His Sperm to Father 49 Kids
By Claire Lampen
A collection of Jan Karbaat’s children (now adults) who were involved in the case. Photo: Getty Images
For decades, a Dutch fertility doctor secretly swapped in his own sperm for donor samples while administering IVF treatments: On Friday, DNA tests finally confirmed the late Jan Karbaat fathered dozens of his patients’ children without their knowledge or consent. After judges ordered the release of a sealed record detailing Karbaat’s genetic profile, a group of his suspected descendants underwent paternity tests, and according to The Guardian, 49 came back as direct matches.
Before he died in 2017, Karbaat admitted to begetting maybe 60 children during his time operating a fertility clinic. According to the New York Times, clinic may actually be a generous term: “Karbaat ran a sperm bank in the rear of his stately yellow brick house” in the town of Barendrecht, near Rotterdam. He helped patients conceive an estimated 10,000 babies between 1980 and 2009, when authorities shuttered the practice over concerns about its storage methods and various other infractions. According to the Times, record-keeping was shoddy enough to preclude the possibility of reliably verifying donors’ identities. Suspicions reportedly heightened when two of a patient’s children underwent paternity tests and discovered that they were half-siblings, rather than full-siblings. And then, there was the uncanny familial resemblance among children conceived at Karbaat’s clinic to contend with.
In 2017, a group of parents and so-called “Karbaat children” sued the doctor’s family a month after the 89-year-old died, according to The Guardian. At the time, a judge ruled that Karbaat’s DNA could be collected posthumously, from personal affects like his toothbrush, but that the profile would have to stay locked in a safe until another judge weighed in on what to do with it. In February, the Rotterdam District Court decided that enough evidence existed to credibly suggest Karbaat had been using his own genetic material to inseminate patients, and furthermore, that he may have covertly fathered as many as 200 kids, unbeknownst to their parents.
Armed with the doctor’s DNA, parents and possible children were permitted to undertake their own tests, the results of which confirmed “serious suspicions that Karbaat used his own sperm at his clinic,” the Defense for Children (a Switzerland-based children’s rights organization that aided in the lawsuit) said in a statement.
Apparently, though, not all Karbaat’s secret children felt burdened by their paternity. “I don’t get the feeling that he cheated my mother,” one Eric Lever reportedly told a Dutch daily. “She really wanted a child and could not have one with my paternal father.”
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Others felt grateful to close the book. “After a search of 11 years I can continue my life,” a man named Joey said, according to the BBC. “I am glad that I finally have clarity.”
https://www.hindustantimes.com/worl...49-children/story-b36OkJcfvVtXJGQ8dzcQdP.html
Dutch fertility doctor swapped donors’ sperm with own, fathered 49 children
Results of DNA tests conducted Friday at a hospital in the southeastern city of Nijmegen “showed that 49 children in the case are direct descendants of the late Jan Karbaat”, the Dutch doctor who used his own sperm instead of sperm from a chosen donor.
world Updated: Apr 13, 2019 13:30 IST
Press Trust of India
The Hague
A Dutch doctor at the centre of an IVF scandal fathered at least 49 children, an organisation representing parents and children born through his now-closed clinic said Friday.(Getty Images/iStockphoto)
A Dutch doctor at the centre of an IVF scandal fathered at least 49 children, an organisation representing parents and children born through his now-closed clinic said Friday.
Jan Karbaat, who died in 2017, is the father of 49 children born after women visited his Rotterdam clinic where he used his own sperm instead of sperm from a chosen donor to inseminate them, Defence for Children said.
Results of DNA tests conducted Friday at a hospital in the southeastern city of Nijmegen “showed that 49 children in the case are direct descendants of the late Karbaat,” the organisation said in a statement.
“The results confirm serious suspicions that Karbaat used his own sperm at his clinic,” Defence for Children added.
The controversial case became public after a Dutch court ruled in February that the results of Karbaat’s DNA test should be made available to parents and children to conduct their own comparisons.
Before his death, aged 89, Karbaat reportedly admitted to having fathered about 60 children in his time at the discredited clinic which closed in 2009 amid reports of irregularities.
Karbaat later also admitted to mixing sperm from various donors and issuing fraudulent donor documentation, the Dutch daily newspaper NRC reported.
The group of suspected “Karbaat children” dragged his family to court to force them to release Karbaat’s DNA profile, which was kept locked in a safe.
The Karbaat family’s lawyers had argued that their clients’ right to privacy had to be respected.
“However, with the judges agreeing to the paternity test, the judge placed the children’s rights above those of Karbaat and his family,” Defence for Children advisor Iara de Witte said.
“Now, after years of uncertainty the plaintiffs can finally close a chapter and start processing the fact that they are one of Karbaat’s many descendants,” De Witte said.
One of the children, Eric Lever, recently told the NRC newspaper he was “not angry with Karbaat.” “I don’t get the feeling that he cheated my mother,” he told the NRC paper.
“She really wanted a child and could not have one with my parental father,” he said.
The Defence for Children added it was likely that Karbaat sired even more donor children than the 49 revealed on Friday.
“Sperm belonging to the late doctor was also distributed to other clinics,” Dutch news agency ANP quoted the organisation as saying.
The organisation has appealed to anybody who may suspect that Karbaat was their donor father to apply to a Dutch database for DNA matching.
Applicants can apply in writing to an official body called the FIOM, which maintains a DNA database to match children conceived via anonymous donors.
First Published: Apr 13, 2019 12:08 IST
World Dutch doctor 'fathered 49 children' in IVF scandal
The Dutch doctor, now deceased, allegedly used his own sperm instead of those from a donor to inseminate patients AFP/LLUIS GENE
12 Apr 2019 11:28PM (Updated: 12 Apr 2019 11:37PM)
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THE HAGUE: A deceased Dutch doctor mired in a fertility scandal fathered at least 49 children, an organisation representing parents and children born through IVF at his now-closed clinic said Friday (Apr 12).
Jan Karbaat, who died in 2017, is the direct father of 49 children born after women visited his Rotterdam clinic where he used his own sperm instead of from a chosen donor to inseminate them, Defence for Children said.
Results of DNA tests conducted Friday morning at a hospital in the southeastern city of Nijmegen "showed that 49 children in the case are direct descendants of the late Karbaat", the organisation said in a statement.
"The results confirm serious suspicions that Karbaat used his own sperm at his clinic," Defence for Children added.
The controversial case came became public after a Dutch court ruled in February that the results of Karbaat's DNA test should be made available to parents and children to conduct their own comparisons.
Before his death, Karbaat reportedly admitted to having fathered about 60 children in his time at the discredited clinic which closed in 2009 amid reports of irregularities.
The group of suspected "Karbaat children" dragged his family to court to force them to release Karbaat's DNA profile, which was kept behind locked away in a safe.
The plaintiff's lawyer previously told doctors that children for instance had brown eyes, while a sperm donor was supposedly blue-eyed, or that another male client physically resembled the doctor.
The Karbaat family's lawyers in turn argued that their clients' right to privacy had to be respected.
"However, with the judges agreeing to the paternity test, the judge placed the children's rights above those of Karbaat and his family," Defence for Children advisor Iara de Witte said.
"Now, after years of uncertainty the plaintiffs can finally close a chapter and start processing the fact that they are one of Karbaat's many descendants," De Witte said.
Source: AFP/jt
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醫界醜聞！荷蘭醫生偷換捐贈者精子 法院證實有49名子女
民視
3.5k 人追蹤
民視新聞網
2019年4月14日 下午6:41
來關心一起荷蘭醫界的醜聞，一名2年前過世的婦產科醫師，竟被發現，曾在近40年前在近30年的時間中，偷天換日，把捐贈者的精子換成自己的，就這樣，默默當了49人的父親，而昨天，荷蘭法庭也終於證實，已故醫師的犯行。
13日，荷蘭東部城市奈美根的法庭終於證實，已故的婦產科醫師卡巴特在1980年~2009年中間，確實運用自己的職權，黑心掉包了捐贈者的精子，改用自己的精子，偷偷當了49人的父親。
卡巴特醫師49子女其中一子喬伊：「醫師就是我的生父，同時也是我其他異母兄弟姊妹的父親，我們很高興真相終於清楚了。」
檢視相片
終於確定生父是誰，並確認自己擁有48位同父異母的手足，男子也難以釐清複雜的情緒，這起震撼荷蘭、偷天換日當爸爸的醜聞於2017年爆發，一群聲稱自己可能是「卡巴特子女」的小團體，集體向荷蘭法院要求保留卡巴特的基因核對，而其中一名男子，甚至與卡巴特長的一模一樣，法庭同意後，隨即展開漫長的鑑定程序。
檢視相片
早從11年前就懷疑自己的身世，49名子女儘管終於找到自己的源頭，還是得面對許多情感包袱，甚至是來自遺傳的種種生理問題。
49子女代表律師表示，「不提情感傷害另一方面來說，他們做了一些DNA檢測，有些人有基因錯誤，49子女代表律師，因為醫師的精子並未被檢驗過，而那是要燒錢的。」
卡巴特醫師開在靠近鹿特丹的生育診所，因為被控偽造數據，就是有系統地允許，讓捐精者超過捐6次的上限，於2009年關閉，可惜卡巴特醫師早在2017年就過世，所有疑問，也隨著他石沉大海。
（民視新聞／綜合報導）
https://www.thecut.com/2019/04/dutch-ivf-doctor-secretly-used-his-sperm-to-father-49-kids.html
ivf Apr. 12, 2019
A Dutch IVF Doctor Secretly Used His Sperm to Father 49 Kids
By Claire Lampen
A collection of Jan Karbaat’s children (now adults) who were involved in the case. Photo: Getty Images
For decades, a Dutch fertility doctor secretly swapped in his own sperm for donor samples while administering IVF treatments: On Friday, DNA tests finally confirmed the late Jan Karbaat fathered dozens of his patients’ children without their knowledge or consent. After judges ordered the release of a sealed record detailing Karbaat’s genetic profile, a group of his suspected descendants underwent paternity tests, and according to The Guardian, 49 came back as direct matches.
Before he died in 2017, Karbaat admitted to begetting maybe 60 children during his time operating a fertility clinic. According to the New York Times, clinic may actually be a generous term: “Karbaat ran a sperm bank in the rear of his stately yellow brick house” in the town of Barendrecht, near Rotterdam. He helped patients conceive an estimated 10,000 babies between 1980 and 2009, when authorities shuttered the practice over concerns about its storage methods and various other infractions. According to the Times, record-keeping was shoddy enough to preclude the possibility of reliably verifying donors’ identities. Suspicions reportedly heightened when two of a patient’s children underwent paternity tests and discovered that they were half-siblings, rather than full-siblings. And then, there was the uncanny familial resemblance among children conceived at Karbaat’s clinic to contend with.
In 2017, a group of parents and so-called “Karbaat children” sued the doctor’s family a month after the 89-year-old died, according to The Guardian. At the time, a judge ruled that Karbaat’s DNA could be collected posthumously, from personal affects like his toothbrush, but that the profile would have to stay locked in a safe until another judge weighed in on what to do with it. In February, the Rotterdam District Court decided that enough evidence existed to credibly suggest Karbaat had been using his own genetic material to inseminate patients, and furthermore, that he may have covertly fathered as many as 200 kids, unbeknownst to their parents.
Armed with the doctor’s DNA, parents and possible children were permitted to undertake their own tests, the results of which confirmed “serious suspicions that Karbaat used his own sperm at his clinic,” the Defense for Children (a Switzerland-based children’s rights organization that aided in the lawsuit) said in a statement.
Apparently, though, not all Karbaat’s secret children felt burdened by their paternity. “I don’t get the feeling that he cheated my mother,” one Eric Lever reportedly told a Dutch daily. “She really wanted a child and could not have one with my paternal father.”
Get unlimited access to The Cut and everything else New York.
Learn More »
Others felt grateful to close the book. “After a search of 11 years I can continue my life,” a man named Joey said, according to the BBC. “I am glad that I finally have clarity.”
https://www.hindustantimes.com/worl...49-children/story-b36OkJcfvVtXJGQ8dzcQdP.html
Dutch fertility doctor swapped donors’ sperm with own, fathered 49 children
Results of DNA tests conducted Friday at a hospital in the southeastern city of Nijmegen “showed that 49 children in the case are direct descendants of the late Jan Karbaat”, the Dutch doctor who used his own sperm instead of sperm from a chosen donor.
world Updated: Apr 13, 2019 13:30 IST
Press Trust of India
The Hague
A Dutch doctor at the centre of an IVF scandal fathered at least 49 children, an organisation representing parents and children born through his now-closed clinic said Friday.(Getty Images/iStockphoto)
A Dutch doctor at the centre of an IVF scandal fathered at least 49 children, an organisation representing parents and children born through his now-closed clinic said Friday.
Jan Karbaat, who died in 2017, is the father of 49 children born after women visited his Rotterdam clinic where he used his own sperm instead of sperm from a chosen donor to inseminate them, Defence for Children said.
Results of DNA tests conducted Friday at a hospital in the southeastern city of Nijmegen “showed that 49 children in the case are direct descendants of the late Karbaat,” the organisation said in a statement.
“The results confirm serious suspicions that Karbaat used his own sperm at his clinic,” Defence for Children added.
The controversial case became public after a Dutch court ruled in February that the results of Karbaat’s DNA test should be made available to parents and children to conduct their own comparisons.
Before his death, aged 89, Karbaat reportedly admitted to having fathered about 60 children in his time at the discredited clinic which closed in 2009 amid reports of irregularities.
Karbaat later also admitted to mixing sperm from various donors and issuing fraudulent donor documentation, the Dutch daily newspaper NRC reported.
The group of suspected “Karbaat children” dragged his family to court to force them to release Karbaat’s DNA profile, which was kept locked in a safe.
The Karbaat family’s lawyers had argued that their clients’ right to privacy had to be respected.
“However, with the judges agreeing to the paternity test, the judge placed the children’s rights above those of Karbaat and his family,” Defence for Children advisor Iara de Witte said.
“Now, after years of uncertainty the plaintiffs can finally close a chapter and start processing the fact that they are one of Karbaat’s many descendants,” De Witte said.
One of the children, Eric Lever, recently told the NRC newspaper he was “not angry with Karbaat.” “I don’t get the feeling that he cheated my mother,” he told the NRC paper.
“She really wanted a child and could not have one with my parental father,” he said.
The Defence for Children added it was likely that Karbaat sired even more donor children than the 49 revealed on Friday.
“Sperm belonging to the late doctor was also distributed to other clinics,” Dutch news agency ANP quoted the organisation as saying.
The organisation has appealed to anybody who may suspect that Karbaat was their donor father to apply to a Dutch database for DNA matching.
Applicants can apply in writing to an official body called the FIOM, which maintains a DNA database to match children conceived via anonymous donors.
First Published: Apr 13, 2019 12:08 IST
