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Man who mixed sperm with his father’s created child-welfare minefield, says judge

2024-02-18 00:00:00.0 独立报-英国新闻原网页

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A family have “created a welfare minefield”, a judge has said, after a man mixed his sperm with his father’s to help his partner get pregnant.

After having fertility problems, the man, known as PQ, and his then-partner, JK, agreed to mix his sperm with his father’s and inject it into the woman, the High Court was told.

The couple had been unable to afford IVF treatment.

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However, after Barnsley Council was informed about the circumstances of the conception in separate proceedings, it brought a legal bid over the parentage of the child.

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The council had asked the High Court in Sheffield to direct DNA tests that should be carried out to determine whether the man was D’s father.

The sperm arrangement was “always intended” to be kept secret and resulted in the birth of a now five-year-old boy, known as D, the court heard.

But in a judgment on Thursday, Mr Justice Poole dismissed the council’s action, finding it had “no stake in the outcome”, and he ruled that the man does not have to have a paternity test.

The judge said the family had “created a welfare minefield”, adding: “I cannot believe that JK, PQ and (his father) RS properly thought through the ramifications of their scheme for JK to become pregnant, otherwise it is unlikely that they would have embarked upon it.”

He continued that the boy “is a unique child who would not exist but for the unusual arrangements made for his conception, but those arrangements have also created the potential for him to suffer emotional harm were he to learn of them”.

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