By AFPMore by this AuthorTHE HAGUEA 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. 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. "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. 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.

Source: Daily Nation April 13, 2019 04:41 UTC