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By Staff Reporter 
1 hour ago
More than four decades after Durban gynecologist Norman Walker committed suicide, his numerous children are still uncovering the truth about a man who could have fathered as many as 300 children.
One of the last to find out about this was Fiona Darroch, a South African who now lives in Australia. Walker had been her godfather and her mother’s gynecologist.
She only discovered the truth when she came across a strange Amazon review from a woman from Ireland. At that time she had been looking for books written by her godfather Walker.
The Irish woman, Darroch told SBS Insight in an exclusive interview, had been trying to find information about Walker. She had written: “Dr. Walker was my biological father and sperm donor.”
Darroch, at the time, was unaware that she was conceived through a sperm donor. She began sharing information with the woman in Ireland. The more he learned, the more he wondered.
Then she saw a photograph of Walker on her driver’s license, instantly realized that he was the split image of her daughter. He realized that he had to face his mother.
Her mother said that she had used a sperm donor and that Walker was her gynecologist. He had told her at the time that the donated sperm came from medical students.
Darroch was devastated. It was like losing my own father, who raised me again, ”he told SBS Insight. His legal father had died years before.
Over the years, the truth about Walker has slowly emerged through genetic testing and from mothers who revealed that the gynecologist was his father.
In addition to Darroch, Cassandra Hallberg and her brother Greg discovered that Walker was their father. In Darroch’s case, her suspicions were finally confirmed in 2017 when her eldest daughter took a 23andMe DNA test.
This test revealed that Darroch had siblings from the US, Ireland, New Zealand, the UK, South Africa, and Australia. They believe there may be between 200 and 300 half siblings.
Darroch’s youngest daughter also found out that she even had an uncle who is 15 years younger than her mother, which is an indication that Walker was using his sperm to get women pregnant a decade and a half after their mother’s birth.
The group calls themselves “Tony’s Babies.” Walker committed suicide in 1977, at the age of 62. This after his wife died of cancer. Darroch believes that Walker probably did not think his secret would come out.
“I think his ethics were really dumb (sic). I understand that at that time they had no idea that DNA was going to be so popular and it would be so easy to trace their family tree, “he said.
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