The judge who heard the civil case said the donor 'deliberately lied about this in order to persuade the parents to take him as a donor,' the court said.
A Dutch court on Friday banned a man from donating any more of his sperm after he fathered at least 550 children in the Netherlands and other countries and misled prospective parents about the number of offspring he helped to conceive.
The court noted that under Dutch guidelines, sperm donors are allowed to produce a maximum of 25 children with 12 mothers and that the donor lied to prospective parents about his donation history. The donor's lawyer said in a court hearing that he wanted to help parents who would otherwise be unable to conceive.
"All these parents are now confronted with the fact that the children in their family are part of a huge kinship network, with hundreds of half-siblings, which they did not choose," the court said, adding that this"has or could possibly have negative psychosocial consequences for the children. It is therefore in their interest that this kinship network is not extended any further.
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