A Florida couple is accusing a retired Vermont doctor of artificially inseminating the woman with his own sperm rather than that of a donor in the 1970s.
Cheryl Rousseau and her husband Peter filed a lawsuit in US District Court in Burlington, Vermont on December 4 against Dr. John Boyd Coates III and then-named Central Vermont Medical Center seeking at least $75,000 in damages.
The complaint says Coates agreed to inseminate Cheryl Rousseau with donor material from an unnamed medical student, who resembled Rousseau's husband , Peter, and had characteristics that she required.
Coates performed the artificial insemination but inserted his own genetic material, the lawsuit said.
'Defendant Dr. Coates knew that the child born as Barbara Mary Frances Rousseau was his biological daughter but chose to never disclose this fact to Plaintiffs nor to Barbara Mary Frances,' the suit said.
The alleged injury was discovered when the Rousseau's adult daughter, Barbara, was working with a geneticist and publicly available information pointed to Coates as her biological father.
Coates has denied that he is her father, the lawsuit said.
Cheryl Rousseau and her husband Peter filed a lawsuit in US District Court in Burlington, Vermont on December 4 against Dr. John Coates and then-named Central Vermont Medical Center seeking at least $75,000 in damages for Coates allegedly inseminating Cheryl with his own sperm rather than that of their selected donor more than 40 years ago. Coates worked at what was then-called Central Vermont Medical Center at the time. The medical facility is pictured, and is now named University of Vermont Health Network at Central Vermont Medical Center
Coates' choice to insert his own genetic material into Rousseau in March of 1977 'was harmful, offensive and constituted a battery upon Plaintiff Cheryl Rousseau,' the lawsuit said.
Rousseau had wanted a child with her husband, who she married in 1974, but they were told at the time that his vasectomy could not be reversed, according to the complaint.
The lawsuit says the couple recently discovered that Coates appeared to be the father of their child when their now-grown daughter who was born in December of 1977 sought information about her biological father through DNA testing.
The daughter determined in October that Coates was her father through services like Ancestry.com and 23 and Me, according to the complaint.
O'Neill said that Coates made it a point to remain close to the Rousseau's during the pregnancy, though he maintained a professional relationship.
'He made sure that he did the delivery of the child himself as opposed to someone else in his practice, he made certain he was there,' O'Neill said.
'It's fraud and it's a question of inserting genetic material in a woman, not of an anonymous donor but rather the physician who is engaging in the conduct it self,' O'Neill said.
The family's attorney noted that had it not been for the curiosity of their daughter, the Rousseaus might never have found out about this alleged nefarious conduct.
'Unless Dr. Coates were to have contacted her and told her that he was in fact her genetic father, she would have never known,' he said.
Coates declined comment when reached by phone on Friday.
His lawyer, Peter Joslin, was out of the office and not available for comment.
Dr. Donald Cline (pictured) is one example of a retired Indianapolis fertility doctor who used his own sperm to impregnate possibly dozens of women after telling them the donors were anonymous
The hospital where Coates worked at the time, now named University of Vermont Health Network at Central Vermont Medical Center, said it could not speak to the lawsuit but noted that Coates had a private practice and wasn't employed by the medical center, the Barre Montpelier Times Argus reported.
The lawsuit alleges Coates is responsible for medical negligence, failure to obtain informed consent, fraud, battery, negligent infliction of emotional distress, intentional inflection of emotional distress, breach of contract, consumer protection act violation and negligent supervision.
Jerome O'Neill, a lawyer for the Rousseaus, said he didn't know if other women were possibly affected but referred in general to other cases nationwide, where when it was found that one woman had been wrongfully inseminated by her doctor, it turned out that more than one woman had suffered the same injury.
Dr. Donald Cline is one example of a retired Indianapolis fertility doctor who used his own sperm to impregnate possibly dozens of women after telling them the donors were anonymous.
Cline was given a one-year suspended sentence last year after he pleaded guilty to two counts of obstruction of justice related to the allegations.
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Main photo article A Florida couple is accusing a retired Vermont doctor of artificially inseminating the woman with his own sperm rather than that of a donor in the 1970s.
Cheryl Rousseau and her husband Peter filed a lawsuit in US District Court in Burlington, Vermont on December 4 against Dr. John Boyd Coates...
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