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The doctor, who has since died, was a specialist in artificial insemination with donor sperm at the Zwolle clinic between 1981 and 1993. The Isala Hospital in Zwolle, about 100 kilometers east of Amsterdam, made the case public on Tuesday, also in the name of affected children.
The doctor’s behavior was “morally unacceptable,” the clinic said. The case came to light after some of today’s adult children went independently in search of their biological father. The DNA samples from the children they searched matched those from other searchers, as well as the DNA sample from a relative of the doctor. Thus arose the name of the doctor.
It cannot be ruled out that the doctor has had more children. “At the time of fertilization in the 1980s, expectant parents were advised to keep quiet about artificial insemination with donor sperm,” the hospital statement said.
A similar case recently caused horror in the Netherlands. A controversial reproductive medicine specialist had at least 49 children with his sperm in the 1980s and 1990s. Also in this case the parents did not know anything about it.
