There is an interesting lawsuit against a US sperm bank Xytex and its Ontario distributor, Outreach Health. At the center of the case is Donor 9623, James Christian Aggeles of Georgia, who claimed an IQ of 160, an undergraduate degree in neuroscience and a master’s degree in artificial intelligence. He also claimed that he was pursuing a PhD in neuroscience engineering. In reality, he was a formal mental patient with a felony conviction. His sperm was used to conceive at least 36 children in Canada, the US and Britain. The result is a $12 million lawsuit against the companies.
The truth about Aggeles was discovered in 2014 after an inadvertent disclosure by Xytex that included his email. The later Google search revealed the true identity and his past diagnosis for schizophrenia, narcissistic personality disorder, drug-induced psychotic disorder and significant grandiose delusions. It also revealed a conviction for a 2005 residential burglary resulting in eight months in jail.
Xytex’s President Kevin M. O’Brien insisted: “In this case, the donor underwent a standard medical exam and provided extensive personal and health information. He reported a good health history and stated in his application that he had no physical or medical impairments.”
However, the families insist that Xytex and Outreach Health continued to promote and sell the donor’s sperm even after the sperm bank was informed of the disclosures.
This is a horrific situation for these women and liability could produce a needed incentive for these companies to better screen donors. It hardly seems reasonable to rely on the representations of donors without further investigation. This is not eHarmony from a sperm bank with lasting implications for women.
What do you think?
Ren. Born of “desparate” situation is not the same as shopping in the sears catalog. They are suing …saying they didn’t get their money worth or false advertising. My dad was an orphan cuz his dad died…not because his mom picked a false advertised. Huge difference.
J – did your dad’s die or did his mom die? Either way he was not an orphan. He was a foundling. An abandoned child.
Oh the dad was mentally ill.
The mom was 100 percent normal. Because normal people go to a sperm bank and “pick” the father.
What do i think? Turley asks….well the mom will be raising the kid so there is 100 percent chance the kid will be crazy. Who tells a kid we bought you at a sperm bank and kid be “ok” with that?
J
The same people who adopt children born in desperate situations. Or have surrogates. At least nearly all those parents are showing they actually wanted the kids. My dad’s mother died following his birth and his dad dropped him off at the local orphanage as a newborn. He wasn’t adopted until he was 7…and able to work.
You forget to mention, as someone was kind enough to do in the Trump wall section, that professors also love communism and fascism, an attacking Jews.
I’m just going after men made of straw, though.
Wow.
I made no straw man at all. That is current teaching on college campuses: that no-whites cannot be racist and non-males cannot be oppressors.
Try again.
I guess only good, white, straight Christians can exaggerate to make a point.
You basically accuse “liberals”, or whichever non-existent group you’re referring to when you say “the raped white man was the opressor and the minority was the victim,” when the only person, anywhere, who felt wrong about reporting the crime was this single victim himself.
You present a strawman,then accuse me of doing so. Who are all these politically correct people calling him the criminal?
Joshzzzz, there are many other logical fallacies to make use of, if you want to expand your repertoire.
perhaps those looking to be impregnated ought to make personal efforts to find a suitable sperm source rather than making no further effort than scanning a menu and ordering
Which describes almost every poster, and post, in all of these comments sections.
#EvilgaysObamasocialisliberalabortionistamericahaters
In which joshzzzz beats a straw man to death.
“There are no male victims because men would never be involved in something as shameful and immoral as using a sperm bank. All women are evil and the cause of all humanity’s ills like in the Bible. Only women can be depraved enough to bring themselves so low, and deserve whatever any sperms bank does.
Something something cut off their genitals something something.”
Indeed.
Plus he was white and the rapist was not.
So by the 2017 AP politically correct rules, the raped white man was the oppressor, and the foreign rapist was the victim.
Bank of America has the same problem as the bank in this article. People make deposits of cash which is phony and customers take out withdrawals of cash which is phony (counterfeit). But the FDIC will not hold the Bank of America accountable. The B of A says that they did an accounting and all was well.
Don’t take a $20 or a $100 bill from B of A this week. Next week look out for the $50s.
@Paul
According to the AP style guide, males cannot be victims, only oppressors.
KCFleming – didn’t we have that Norwegian male rape victim earlier this week. Did that slip through the style guide?
Independent Bob
You’re very mistaken. Prof Turley does not trifle with Drudge or the Inquirer (sic). He goes for the prize winning Daily Mail, who, along with investigative journalism like this, also covers side boobs and red carpets faux pas.
I just reread the original posting and all of the emphasis was on women being the victims. How about their male partners? Are they not victims as well? Or the partners they will meet later?
1. Gullible women believe a random crazy stranger that his sperm is made of gold.
2. Blog commenters say “That’s not too bright.”
3. joshzzzz blames commenters for pointing out that gullible women are gullible.
@mstfd – I didn’t see any profile of the women to indicate they had either male or female partners. Quite a few women have elected to get pregnant without the benefit of a father (or even same-sex partner) in the child’s life.
Stacy Schiff, stupid auto-correct.
I’m reading The Witches by Stack Schiff, and it’s funny how often the people here sound just like the 17th century Puritans.
Now,”cut off their genitals for using a sperms bank.”