r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/FridayCicero702 • Feb 04 '23
This is Dr. Donald Cline - A fertility doctor who illegally fathered 94 children - He discarded donated sperm & replaced it with his own - He served a one-year suspended sentence for his atrocities Image
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u/mrteas_nz Feb 04 '23 edited Feb 05 '23
From Wikipedia:
There is a high presence of auto-immune disorders among Cline's donor-fathered children. Cline's own auto-immune condition, rheumatoid arthritis, would have excluded him as an eligible sperm donor at his own clinic.
Many of the donor-children live within a 25-mile radius of each other. Their concern with consanguinity and its potential genetic disorders increases as their own children grow up and develop intimate relationships.
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There is a series about this story on Netflix/Hulu, it's very interesting
He was accidentally the gynaecologist for one of his daughters
He has been sued in civil court by some of those affected, settling for over $1m so far, with more suits to follow.
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u/Jenkies89 Feb 04 '23
Wow this guy sucks.
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u/sofluffy22 Feb 04 '23
There’s a Netflix doc called “Our Father” about him. Fucking disgusting.
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u/theothershuu Feb 05 '23
Listened to a podcast about another of these "Dr's" demented egotistical quacks. They might have a degree but they abandoned every ethical standard held by medicine
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u/koushakandystore Feb 04 '23
As the great Norm Macdonald would have said, wow, this guy sounds like a real jerk.
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u/InVodkaVeritas Feb 05 '23
There are some lucky bastards who have high immune disease resistance, amazing health factors and metabolism, and no family history of early death. They hit the genetic lottery.
You would expect the asshole who does this to be one of those people, justifying it with their lucky genetics. But no. It's an asshole passing on auto-immune diseases.
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u/mistaharsh Feb 05 '23
It actually makes more sense from a vindictive standpoint. He's in charge of facilitating the one thing that he was forbidden to partake in. He showed them...
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u/Mahelavawoman Feb 04 '23
We can all help hold these drs accountable. ACT now! See how. Also, with the commercial dna tests they have found approximately 60 Drs. That have done this. Be the change!! Email your congressman. There is a bill out right NOW waiting to make it to the house floor!!!
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u/solepureskillz Feb 05 '23 •
Worse than sucks. My wife and I are working through assisted fertility, and the chance this happens is small but fucking terrifying to me. What would I do? If we didn’t care about making a biological offspring, we would adopt. But this guy?
The hypothetical of some doctor planting his seed in my wife non-consensually and having us raise a child that isn’t mine? In this world full of atrocities, this one cuts among the deepest of unforgivable sins.
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u/ElJamoquio Feb 05 '23
Don't worry, he received a sentence of four days per family destruction. Er, suspended sentence.
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u/Blueberry_Clouds Feb 05 '23
Not to mention the emotional dilemma the kids will have to go through
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u/ObviousTroll37 Feb 05 '23
That’s what I don’t get. Isn’t this rape but with extra steps? 94 times? This guy should be serving life
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u/Emergency-Alarm8392 Feb 05 '23
Watch the Netflix documentary if you can. It’s incredibly disturbing and several of the impregnated women called it rape but the state law had a different definition for it, so the prosecutor refused to bring it to a grand jury. They could only go after it at a malpractice or fraud angle, which means he got just a slap on the wrist.
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u/hilarymeggin Feb 05 '23
I watched the documentary. I can’t BELIEVE there are no criminal charges they could get this guy on!! One of his victims made the point, of a guy spit on me, that would be assault, but a guy can put his semen inside my body??
I would add, if a hospital deliberately gave me the wrong baby, that would be a crime, right?
I hope state legislatures across the nation are updating their definitions of rape as we speak.
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u/allegedlydm Feb 05 '23
Morally, emotionally, and in terms of trauma, you’re right. Legally? This is unfortunately only a crime in 11 states. It’s something donor-conceived people are advocating for at a federal level but in spite of over 50 doctors having done this, they’re being told it doesn’t happen so why bother with regulation.
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u/outdwoodwerk Feb 05 '23
Sadly, he wasn't the only one. Unfortunately, there really weren't any laws preventing this until these creeps came out of the wood work.
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u/mygdygy Feb 04 '23 edited Feb 09 '23
Are you telling me his children’s children have… made children… together??! Or they’re upset only because the chance is there?
Edit: Im highly aware there was a chance, it just never occurred to me that the majority of people seeking treatment with him would be living in such a vicinity that they would be going to school, work, bars, even church together… the chance was more like a going to happen!!
Stay safe out there folks!
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u/tghost474 Feb 04 '23
There is a higher likelihood if they are all within the same range of each other. If they are unaware they were related. It’s happened before.
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u/Opening-Ocelot-7535 Feb 04 '23
It's happened between "unknown", illegitimate children.
Daddy does what he can to discourage the relationship that "Timmy" has with that girl, the one who vaguely resembles him.
The story comes out only after the procreate together... or by that Christmas gift from 23-&-me...
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u/DamnAlreadyTaken Feb 04 '23
95% of Mexican telenovelas since the 80s
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u/L1ghtningMcQueer Feb 04 '23 edited Feb 04 '23
also the House episode ‘Fools for Love’ (s3e5) where an interracial married couple comes down with the exact same rare genetic illness and eventually find out that the husband’s (extremely racist) dad was also the wife’s dad
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u/J_B_La_Mighty Feb 05 '23
Main reason why I never marry someone from my parents villages, thats too risky
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u/ElJamoquio Feb 05 '23
The crossroads where my Father grew up, I was pretty close to literally related to everyone.
You pretty much had to move away, as my father did.
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u/rockthrowing Feb 04 '23
Exactly. That’s the problem. Not everyone has undergone genetic testing. There’s no telling how many kids he actually has. So it’s extremely possible that half siblings could hook up or first cousins.
First cousins (and in this case they would be half first cousins) really isn’t too bad genetically but if they both have the autoimmune disorder (and many of them do) it can definitely cause problems. But the real issue is first cousins having children who then end up having children with their first or second cousins and continuing the cycle, bc again, not everyone is aware of their genetic background.
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u/Adrewmc Feb 04 '23
Well 94 people have kids and these people have no idea they are related, their kids would meet and grow up having no idea. And within close proximity this become more of a when not if.
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u/concentrated-amazing Feb 04 '23
There's a Netflix documentary on this that came out less than a year ago, and as of that time there were no cases of his kids unknowingly having relationships or reproducing. There have been connections, such "oh I know her, she's my mom's hairdresser" sort of thing, but none of that kind.
But they talk about,after discovering that they are one of their siblings, talking to their teens about the potential of future partners being a half cousin.
It's something that no one should have to go through, that's for sure.
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u/ChicaFoxy Feb 04 '23
ABSOLUTELY NOT THE EQUIVALENT TO THIS HORRIBLE SITUATION but my sister uses Ancestry before she dates anyone. I have 80+ first cousins.
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u/Junior_Potato_3226 Feb 04 '23
That is insane, I have SIX first cousins lol. How many siblings do each of your parents have?
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u/ChicaFoxy Feb 04 '23
My dad has 2. My mom had one die recently and a few previously, but including a set of twins her mom had 24 kids.
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u/The_Clarence Feb 05 '23
Jesus. She spent over 17 years pregnant. Hope she lived a full and long life, but I gotta think the toll on her body could have meant she spent 2/3 of her adult life pregnant.
Almost related, my first father-in-law would ridicule my ex wife about taking maternity leave because his mom had 8 kids and went right back to work in the field the next week. She died at 40 but you know that’s fine to him apparently.
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u/ChicaFoxy Feb 05 '23
Yeah, we've all done field work haha. At her rate, my abuela probably had the babies in the field and just scooped them up and kept going lol
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u/Junior_Potato_3226 Feb 04 '23
Wow that's incredible. Raising one is enough for me!
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u/ChicaFoxy Feb 04 '23
It might've been a but much, but different times different cultures, you know? No regrets! Lol
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u/concentrated-amazing Feb 04 '23
Good call haha. That's a lot to keep track of!
I have 20 on one side, 7 on the other. My husband has 30 something cousins from his mom, the side he's always known, none in his dad's adoptive family but 30 something from his dad's bio family, which was discovered just over 5 years ago.
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u/ChicaFoxy Feb 04 '23
Many conversations are kind of "hey girl, we have a lot in common, wanna go out with me?" /Queue search, screenshot, send
"A little too much in common."
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u/Dry_Mastodon7574 Feb 04 '23
Do they talk about why he did it? Did he just think highly of himself?
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u/concentrated-amazing Feb 04 '23
There was talk in the documentary of: * A) Cline claiming to use his own sperm when the provided sperm (from the mother's husband) wasn't up to par (according to Cline, not clinically verified obviously) * B) Suspected links to Quiverfull, the fundamentalist Christian movement that seeks to produce as many children as possible (19 Kids and Counting/the Duggars are an example of that) * C) Suspicions that Cline wanted to have numerous children to up the odds of having many "successful" (high powered careers, influential) children
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u/Bubbly-End-6156 Feb 04 '23
In the documentary they mentioned him wanting to make more blonde haired blue eyed children. Because of his desire for a more aryan society.
It's possible that was the other documentary, but the two men look so much alike.
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Feb 04 '23
And I would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for you meddling kids!
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u/Zonyxe Feb 04 '23
There's a whole documentary about this guy and the story on maybe Netflix or something? Has multiple of the kids talking about the experience of finding out and it's really depressing and awful. Can't recall if any of the kids had ended up in relationships on accident because they didn't know their "father".
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u/concentrated-amazing Feb 04 '23
As of the documentary (May 2022), there were no romantic or reproducing relationships among his kids.
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u/koushakandystore Feb 04 '23
In Iceland each citizen has a special genetic identification. When you’re into another Icelander you can check the database before going past 1st base. In a country with only 320,00 people the potential for inbreeding is very real.
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u/izmaname Feb 04 '23
Oddly one of the victims found out because her father died of auto immune complications from diabetes and she did a 23 and Me to check for auto immune issues when she had a son
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u/Juan_Carlo Feb 04 '23
I wonder if DNA testing wasn't common when he started, but then when companies started springing up, he was like, "Oh, fuck."
I could see a doctor doing this in the 1970s and 1980s, thinking no one would ever know.
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u/ASMRSleepZzzz Feb 04 '23
Paternity testing started in the 80s and using DNA in criminal proceedings started then as well.
But the beginnings paternity testing didn't have as high confidence at first and was extremely expensive. Maybe he thought the costs wouldn't become more affordable for a very long time? Or maybe he thought they weren't reliable enough in the beginning?
The full Human Genome Project wasn't completed until 2003. That's crazy to me.
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u/7x1x2 Feb 04 '23
I don’t think he cares if he was ever caught. His goal was likely to have as much spawn as possible so his “legacy” and “bloodline” could live on for a long time. He achieved his goal. He won.
The only way he could lose is if they all killed themselves or all refused to ever have children. They won’t though.
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u/mrteas_nz Feb 05 '23 edited Feb 05 '23
Hardly like he was punished either... Medical lhcense revoked when close to retirement, 1 year suspended sentence. Oh no!
Close as it comes to getting away scot free.
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u/Christichicc Feb 04 '23
I bet those families could sue him in a civil court for this. And they should! What a scumbag.
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u/Zonyxe Feb 04 '23 edited Feb 04 '23
Pretty sure he died before any kind of punishment. Which is typical for disgusting old men who commit atrocities.
Edit. He's not dead apparently and trying his best to avoid punishment. Also typical for disgusting old men who commit atrocities.
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u/Might_Be_An_Aardvark Feb 04 '23
He's still alive and very much getting sued.
From Wikipedia: "As of May 2022, Cline had paid out more than $1.35 million to settle three civil lawsuits filed by donor children and families. Three more are pending."
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u/Zonyxe Feb 04 '23
Oh, well if that's true I hope he gets to suffer before he dies. What a sack of rotten asswater
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u/AdventurousSkill3798 Feb 04 '23
if you’re taking about Dr. Kline, dudes still alive and still dodging the law.
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u/Point-me-home Feb 04 '23
Sue his estate! Those deceived Mothers & children should get every dime he had!
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u/clumsycouture Feb 05 '23
The Netflix documentary literally made me shake with rage. I don’t understand how this is not rape the women were unknowingly inseminated without their permission. One women came in with her partners sperm, went to the operating room and while she was waiting he threw the donors sperm out, masturbated while she was waiting and then used his fresh sperm. Fucking sick creep.
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u/theNaughtydog Feb 04 '23
On the plus side, it ups the odds of finding a match if one of them needs an organ transplant.
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u/ensui67 Feb 04 '23
I like this. Maybe that was his plan all along. In case he needed a kidney or bone marrow transplant. Be his own little Genghis Khan
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u/importvita Feb 04 '23
This mother fucker served a one year suspended sentence, which means literally NO jail time at all.
Our society sickens me
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u/TutankaDon Feb 04 '23
Dude i read another shit... he was the gynecologist of his own daughter, and probably he knew it 🤮🤮
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u/Lovingnature412 Feb 04 '23
Suspended ?
Piece of shit should be in prison
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u/kaylaholic Feb 05 '23
From what I remember, there was no appropriate law for this type of conduct at the time in his area. In fact there aren't a lot of laws for artificially inseminating a woman purposely with the "wrong donor". In the documentary they explained that it doesn't fall under sexual assault so he pretty much got away with it because of the lack of the laws.
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u/spinx248 Feb 05 '23
The spirit of sexual assault laws cover this. What’s on paper does not explicitly cover this so prosecutors and the courts are hesitant. This is when the legislature should step up and clarify by introducing new language that is retroactive to make sure this asshole goes down for rape, SA, etc..
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Feb 05 '23
While there absolutely should be a law against this sort of thing, the legislature can’t just decide past conduct is illegal. Nor do we want judges to be able to just decide something is illegal if it isn’t actually written down.
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u/Mahelavawoman Feb 04 '23
We can all help hold these drs accountable. ACT now! See how. Also, with the commercial dna tests they have found approximately 60 Drs. That have done this. Be the change!! Email your congressman. There is a bill out right NOW waiting to make it to the house floor!!!
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u/ashwy16 Feb 04 '23
Absolutely - sadly though, a man getting a minimal sentence for sexual crimes is the least surprising part of this
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u/hellakevin Feb 04 '23
He didn't get in trouble for what he did as a doctor. He got in trouble for lying in court iirc.
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u/Abadazed Feb 04 '23
That is worse.
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u/Haxorz7125 Feb 05 '23
some more news has an excellent episode about the leniency of judges on sex offenders.
Just a warning though, it’ll reeeeeeally piss you off. Also a trigger warning to people, there’s descriptions of the crimes committed and it’s graphic.
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u/GargantuanGreenGoats Feb 05 '23
Does it explain why? Like if a judge can empathize with a sexual offender, put themselves in the SO’s shoes and say “yeeeeeah, I get it”. Maybe, I dunno, they SHOULDNT BE A JUDGE
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u/hunmingnoisehdb Feb 05 '23
China recently had a case where a teacher repeatedly raped and sexually assaulted 15 of his wards. His sentence was only 13 years.
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u/Gunthr8
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This seems to be a common behavior of fertility doctors and not limited to the U.S.
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u/clumsycouture Feb 05 '23
I see two doctors in Canada both from Ontario (ofc). I just googled if we have a federal law against this and we do maybe because of these doctors. 250,000 fine, 5 years in jail or both. Feel like it should be more than that though…
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u/ScreamingLordSutch57 Feb 04 '23
I hope they claim and get child support
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u/SnooOranges2532 Feb 04 '23
Now, question. Are they legally allowed to do so because he illegally did this? Or would that have signed a clause in the contract stating that they can't claim child support from the supposed father? Because surely there have been some crazy people in the past who have tracked down the donor of the sperm and tried to claim it's the father's baby and tried getting child support that way?
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u/autumnleaves4ever Feb 04 '23
If they did sign something, would it still stand if they were defrauded, since they didn’t technically end up with the sperm they thought they had chosen?
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u/istranoth Feb 04 '23
As someone current undergoing IVF I can explain a little bit behind some of the legal stuff. In the documentary (no idea how accurate it is but let’s assume it’s 100% accurate for this sake), he replaced the sperm from couples actively undergoing IVF among other awful things. The embryo that was intended to be made would have been legally owned by the mother and father. However, in order to donate sperm, you do sign your parental rights away. If you donate sperm, eggs, or embryos, some clinics will have additional legal options where you can select if you are open to contact in the future or communication of certain needs (family history, etc). That still doesn’t make the child the legal responsibility of the donor, however. Also, there isn’t any requirements that donor medical issues that develop later in life be communicated to the recipients so they can use sperm that potentially has some serious genetic issues lying in wait and never communicate it.
Long story short, they probably could try to go after him for child support since he very clearly voided the legal ownership of those parents right to their embryos. At minimum, I think they could manage some kind of damages. There is a bunch of legal hoopla with this kinda stuff though so it could be very different from the legality of it all in my area.
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u/Potential_Month_8632 Feb 04 '23
Is that true of sperm donors though? I highly doubt people would bother donating sperm if they would be held responsible for child support
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u/palau40 Feb 04 '23
It wasn’t just sperm from anonymous donors he discarded. He used his own sperm also with couples who were having trouble conceiving, who were pursuing help with conception using their own sperm and egg.
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u/Atkena2578 Feb 04 '23
That's the worse part of it, he didn't just do it with anonymous donors sperm but also with the actual spouse of the patient's.
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u/KianOfPersia Feb 04 '23
Isn’t there a Netflix documentary on him?
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u/mikalobultra Feb 04 '23
Yes. It’s called “Our Father” & it was a great watch !
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u/Appropriate_Chart_23 Feb 04 '23
If by “great” you mean “absolutely disgusting”, then yeah I agree.
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u/xu235 Feb 04 '23
One year... and suspended? WTF?
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u/lemonflower95 Feb 04 '23
Based on the Wiki page OP linked, the problem is there just weren't laws against this in his state at the time. He was brought up on obstruction of justice for lying to the court, not for the actual fraud. The good news is 1. he's paid over $1mil settling lawsuits so far with more pending and 2. lobbying after this case has resulted in fertility fraud being made a felony in his state.
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u/derphurr Feb 04 '23
He didn't pay anything, doctors have to have medical malpractice insurance. They paid for his illegal procedures.
You'd think there should have been a class action or civil pain and suffering cases. Though in many cases people didn't find out until over a decade later. (4 civil cases were filled)
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u/Neat_Apartment_6019 Feb 04 '23
Hopefully his malpractice carrier dumped him after this. It seems like it should be considered a sexual assault to put your sperm inside a woman who didn’t consent. As it is for a guy who stealth-removes a condom and finishes inside a woman without her knowing.
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u/InevitableGuidance19 Feb 04 '23 edited Feb 04 '23
Prosecutor on the case refused to try him for a sex crime of any kind so it was for like misleading information or some dumb random insane charge that was irrelevant to what he put the victims thru 😩
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u/mcdrty Feb 04 '23
This doctor lives in my hometown and it’s disgusting! He claims to be a man of god and it’s all bullshit!!! He needs to answer for his disgusting crime
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u/Mahelavawoman Feb 04 '23
We can all help hold these drs accountable. ACT now! See how in the link below. Also, with the commercial dna tests they have found approximately 60 Drs. that have done this and more that are still doing this today without the patients consent. Be the change!! Email your congressman. There is a bill out right NOW waiting to make it to the house floor!!!
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u/ExuberentWitness Feb 04 '23
I’m surprised none of the 94 fathers killed this man
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u/XeriViridity Feb 04 '23
He even did it to some folks he knew socially - another doctor and his wife who came to him for treatment. He used to visit his own daughter when he went to their house.
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u/IhaveaBibledegree Feb 04 '23
He did this for so long he examined his own daughter looking for fertility help. There was a great Netflix documentary about it.
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u/Careless-Leg5468 Feb 04 '23
did he knock her up to?
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u/IhaveaBibledegree Feb 04 '23
He did not. From what I remember he knew it was his daughter. It was also around the time it started coming out what was going on. The documentary is called “our father” it was a fascinating watch.
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u/AliceInChains1997 Feb 04 '23 •
But all 94 fathers are the him, lol. Also one year suspended and not even fired or arrested wtf!? So he is still working a year later? Also prob suspended with pay too like most cops. Pseudo punishments....
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u/derphurr Feb 04 '23
Cline pleaded guilty to two Level 6 felony counts of obstruction of justice and received a one-year suspended sentence
No, he lost his medical license and cannot apply ever (in Indiana)
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u/AliceInChains1997 Feb 04 '23
I mean that's still a slap on the wrist also should have been charged with 94 felonies for each woman he violated. Imagine giving birth to this dudes child thinking it is yours that's so fucking sick. I'm surprised there isn't a huge movement over this? This is pretty fucking sick stuff.
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u/Papaofmonsters Feb 04 '23
There was no relevant law to charge him under at the time. Now that there is in Indiana, he's protected by ex post facto.
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u/MsGorteck Feb 04 '23
True, but he can move. Each state would have to decide, and he might be able to get a new license. On the plus side, he can't legally buy guns. So something positive came out of this.
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u/MadeInTheUniverse Feb 04 '23
I heard that after this experiment the guy tried to create some zoology parc filled with dinosaurs but didn't end well ...
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u/brodol29 Feb 04 '23
With his own sperm encased in amber?
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u/cuntsmanspyder Feb 04 '23
Nah, he personally fucked all the dinosaurs. Why do you think they culled off all the male ones?
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u/Bent_richard88 Feb 04 '23
I watched the documentary on this slob. It was appalling.
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u/7andhalf-x-6 Feb 04 '23
I saw the documentary. The dude never even accepted that what he did was wrong.
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u/jakeandwally Feb 04 '23
Just the idea of him jerking it in the office 94 times in cringy af. But I guess there is no undoing it now. His dna is now spread about everywhere.
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u/65022056 Feb 04 '23
I do that but I work in food service so it's no big deal.
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u/jakeandwally Feb 04 '23
I’m heading to a restaurant right now. Rest assured, your words are going to be in my head all day now. Lol
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u/mountain_rivers34 Feb 04 '23
Restaurant manager here. The cooks really never fuck with anyone's food, I promise. If you want to be worried though, my top 3 things to avoid in restaurants is: 1. Lemons, they are rarely washed, lots of hands touch them, and they go into your drink. 2. The condiments on the tables and the salt and pepper shakers. They are wiped down once a day, max. If you touch them with your hands, use some hand sanitizer at the very least before you eat any finger foods. People can have poop hands, especially children, and children touch every single thing on the table. 3. Draft beer. While I can attest to our restaurant having the lines cleaned once a month, nobody actually enforces it, and even doing it that frequently, I've seen mold. Now, one could argue that alcohol kills germs, and honestly, I've never heard of someone getting sick from a dirty draft line, so do with that what you will. The soda machine can get pretty nasty if it isn't cleaned correctly too.
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u/Forward-Amount-9961 Feb 04 '23
My mom was one of his patients during the time frame he was replacing donor sperm with his own. Luckily, she was only his patient for a little while in order to get medicine to jump start her ovulation. The medicine worked, and here I am. Still, it's wild to think about what a creep he was (is?).
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u/Impossible_Pitch_825 Feb 05 '23
I mean- One of the cases in the doc showed that he impregnated women who weren't even there for fertility reasons, got one poor chick who was just there for a pelvic exam. With all due respect, might wanna get dna tested.
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u/EMaylic Feb 04 '23
1 year suspended sentence?
Sounds like he...
got off easy.
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u/_53- Feb 04 '23
They should all come back to collect back child support
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u/wavebreker Feb 04 '23
Lmao they should've sentenced him with that
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u/Pleasant_Carpenter55 Feb 04 '23
Even if he only paid 200$ per child per month, which is super low that would be just under 20,000$ a month. He knowingly did this so sounds like a good punishment to me.
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u/Papaofmonsters Feb 04 '23
Indiana limits child support claims to 10 years after the child turns 18. The last child was born in 1987 so that window closed in 2015.
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u/Hoff2017 Feb 05 '23
Important to note that he discarded the sperm of HUSBANDS and fertilized women who thought they were receiving their HUSBAND’s sperm. He would also jerk off in his office TO IMMEDIATELY use. This sometimes occurred after the physical exam of the women who were there for the fertilization process (I.e. he would see them naked, or even complete a gentian exam, then leave the room to “go get the specimen”).
This was sexual assault on the women. He robbed men of fatherhood. And has refused contact with the children he fathered. Not to mention the money he made FROM THE COUPLES through medical billings. Infertility treatments (especially at the time) are expensive and not typically covered under most insurance policies. There are even special loans you can take out now for these kinds of treatments.
One year suspended sentence. That’s it.
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HOW YOU CAN HELP: 1. MESSAGE EVE WILEY (@EVEWILEY ON INSTAGRAM) THE NAME OF YOUR CONGRESSPERSON. 2. SHE WILL SEND YOU AN EMAIL TEMPLATE, HER EMAIL ADDRESS (TO CC ON YOUR MESSAGE), AND YOUR CONGRESSPERSON'S EMAIL ADDRESS. 3. SEND THE EMAIL, CC EVE, AND ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO DO IT AS WELL!!
You can find your congressperson on house.gov
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u/concentrated-amazing Feb 04 '23
Upvoted, as that's the only way I can help from here in Canada.
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u/ousalsa Feb 04 '23
I would probably kill this guy if I was a victim.
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u/Mahelavawoman Feb 04 '23
We can all help hold these drs accountable. ACT now! See how in the link below. Also, with the commercial dna tests they have found approximately 60 Drs. that have done this and more that are still doing this today without the patients consent. Be the change!! Email your congressman. There is a bill out right NOW waiting to make it to the house floor!!!
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u/Dadtron3030 Feb 04 '23
The crazy thing is I have a near and dear friend who shared with me two years ago that Dr. Cline is his father. He went his whole life wondering why he and his brother look so unrelated. His wife gifted him one of the ancestry kits for Xmas and was the way he found out.
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u/AlexKorobeiniki Feb 04 '23
The even more fucked up thing is that what he did isn’t even illegal in most states; there’s no law on the books that prohibit it. And apparently it was somewhat common practice for many years. Absolutely fucked.
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u/Mahelavawoman Feb 04 '23
We can all help hold these drs accountable. ACT now! See how in the link below. Also, with the commercial dna tests they have found approximately 60 Drs. that have done this and more that are still doing this today without the patients consent. Be the change!! Email your congressman. There is a bill out right NOW waiting to make it to the house floor!!!
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u/Clever_Mercury Feb 04 '23
We need to create a definition of medical rape and a mandatory prison sentence to punish this. He should be serving a life sentence as a sex offender.
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u/D3adlywithap3n Feb 04 '23
This man has done more damage to the gene pool than Alabama
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u/ILoveEmeralds Interested Feb 04 '23
The question is, why????
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u/messyhuman987 Feb 04 '23
According to the net flix doc, it's likely that he is an evangelical with beliefs in the quiverfull movement.
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u/clumsycouture Feb 05 '23
It’s because he wanted to create the “Perfect Aryan Clan” all the siblings have light eyes and light hair.
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u/AdAdministrative5330 Feb 04 '23
Cline fathered nearly 100 children during the 1970s and 1980s while using his own sperm to impregnate dozens of unsuspecting patients, according to court documents. These women were told by Cline that the donors were medical residents and that he used each donor for only three successful pregnancies.Jul 6, 2022
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u/DrStems Feb 04 '23
I believe there’s a Netflix documentary about him and the reason not much happened was because he was a respected person somewhere high up in the church.. not surprised tbh since they protect pedos as well
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u/webfork2 Feb 04 '23
This is going to keep happening. There's very little regulation in this space and not seeing much on the horizon.
https://www.theregreview.org/2021/08/10/verniero-wild-west-fertility-clinics/
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u/Icy-Entrepreneur9002 Feb 04 '23
The worst part is that a lot of the 94 were couples that were struggling in conceiving and trusted this guy to help, they were not just looking for donated sperm. A lot of fathers thought for years they were the biological fathers. Just think how terrible it would feel to all involved once they found out.
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I had just watched the Netflix documentary about a week prior to seeing him, at 7 am, walking into a Starbucks on the north side of Indianapolis. I couldn’t help but Yell out the window “Dr Cline” when he turned towards my car, he quickly began securing back to his car. I then proceeded to shout “You are such a discussing piece of shit. You probably should continue carrying that gun! I wouldn’t be surprised if one of those 50+ children, you genetically raped, shoots your ass”!
He was using his cane to walk and had a sidearm strapped to his side. I just couldn’t believe he had the nerve to show his face anywhere around his community or infertility clinic (this Starbucks is blocks away). I have referred many patients to him, in the past, and just couldn’t believe that his prestigious Fertility success was because he was using his sperm to inseminate his pts!
On a side note, I am not one to shout at people, but found myself standing up for those he has devastated.
No time in jail, unbelievable! (But then again we are in Indiana, where until recently the age of consent was 14)!
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u/tiptophightops Feb 04 '23
If I was one of his legitimate heirs, I’d change my name and attempt to strike him from all family records.
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u/Caxern Feb 04 '23
Imagine having to worry about accidental inbreeding on top of inheriting autoimmune disorders from this guy.
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u/ziptiedinatrunk Feb 04 '23
It is worse that a judge decided one year was a sufficient sentence.
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u/WeaselTeamSix Feb 04 '23
The bigger crime was passing on male pattern baldness to another generation.
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u/Best-Bookkeeper3764 Feb 04 '23
The offspring all lived fairly close together and some were scared to date because they were unsure if they could be dating someone they were related to.