Victoria Hill always felt that she was very different from her father and often joked that she was not really his daughter. Over time, his joke became reality.
Worried about a health problem and confused because neither of her parents had suffered anything similar, Victoria purchased a DNA testing kit from 23andMe and sent her sample to the company.
Although she just wanted to do a routine search on herself, she discovered something more shocking: she has 22 half-siblings.
But the story becomes even darker when, after talking to some of her siblings, she realizes that her biological father was a fertility doctor who helped her mother get pregnant using donated sperm.
One of his brothers told him that this doctor (named Burton Caldwell) had allegedly used his own sperm to inseminate his mother without his consent.
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It turned out that one of his brothers was his ex-partner
We know that if you’ve read this far you’ll be pretty shocked by Victoria’s story, but the surprises aren’t over yet; It turns out that one of her brothers was her partner.
“It traumatized me,” Hill said cnn In an interview. “Now I look at pictures of people thinking: If he could be my brother, anyone could be my brother.”
Victoria, 39,’s story represents one of the most shocking cases of fertility fraud, in which specialist doctors deceived their patients by secretly using their own sperm instead of a donor’s.
Not to mention, it also shows how the lack of regulation of these processes leads to the existence of huge groups of brothers who, because they don’t know, can end up accidentally committing incest.
According to a CNN investigation, most of the United States has no laws controlling fertility fraud.
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