Idaho woman sues doctor for secretly using his sperm to impregnate her
Hayes asked for damages not just for her physical and emotional injuries, but for the “loss of love and companionship of her daughters, loss of her daughters’ emotional support and for injury to the parent-child relationship".
A woman in the US's Idaho is suing her fertility doctor after she found out that he secretly used his own sperm to inseminate her 34 years ago.
The now 67-year-old Sharon Hayes sought fertility care from obstetrician and gynecologist Dr David R. Claypool in 1989 after learning that she and her then-husband were unable to conceive, The New York Post reported.
According to a civil complaint filed in Washington Superior Court on October 25, Claypool allegedly charged her $100 for each of several artificial insemination sessions, telling the woman that the money was to compensate the donors.
The complaint suggested that Claypool, now 81, told Hayes that he would obtain donor genetic material from anonymous donors who physically resembled Hayes’s husband at the time.
Hayes had accused Claypool of fraud, failure to obtain consent in violation of state medical malpractice law and violation of Washington’s consumer protection law for his “scheme to charge cash for his own sperm, while he was representing it was a donor’s sperm.”
Hayes asked for damages not just for her physical and emotional injuries, but for the “loss of love and companionship of her daughters, loss of her daughters’ emotional support and for injury to the parent-child relationship.”
Last year, Hayes’ daughter Brianna told the Associated Press, her family learned that the donor process was less than anonymous after receiving a genetic profile from ancestry services 23andMe and MyHeritage.
Brianna told news agency Associated Press that Claypool was her father – and she had at least 16 half-siblings on his side living in the Spokane area.
It is not immediately clear whether the mothers of Claypools’ other alleged children are pursuing legal action. According to the Spokane County Court case viewer, the doctor has faced nine other lawsuits since 1986, but documents from cases predating 2005 are not available online.
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