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Upon investigation, it was discovered that the teenager had been made to inseminate herself alone in her bedroom seven times
over a two-year period starting in 2008 when she was 14, using syringes of semen bought online by the mother from sperm bank Cryos in Denmark.
over a two-year period starting in 2008 when she was 14, using syringes of semen bought online by the mother from sperm bank Cryos in Denmark.
The mother who persuaded her adopted teenage daughter to
become pregnant by artificial insemination because she wanted a baby for
herself has been jailed for five years in Britain, in a case that
raises concern over how easily donor sperm can be obtained.
Previously secret court documents showed that the
daughter, a virgin, was made to inseminate herself alone in her bedroom seven
times
She eventually became pregnant at 16 and gave birth at
17. The extraordinary circumstances of her pregnancy came to light after
midwives became suspicious of the mother because she was trying to prevent her
daughter from bonding with the new baby.
“We don’t want any of that attachment thing,” the
mother said when a midwife suggested that the girl might want to breastfeed.
After several such incidents the midwives alerted social services and police
got involved in July 2011.
In a ruling made in March 2012 but only published now
after the conclusion of the mother’s criminal trial, High Court Judge Peter
Jackson described “an abiding sense of disbelief that a parent could behave in
such a wicked and selfish way towards a vulnerable child”.
The judge also raised questions about the
international trade in donor sperm, noting that “there were no effective checks
on a person’s ability to obtain sperm from Cryos”.
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There is no law in Britain to stop someone from buying
donor sperm on the Internet and using it at home without supervision.
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority
(HFEA) said it was “shocked and appalled by this dreadful case” and would be
discussing with the Department of Health the issues raised relating to the
donation of sperm.
Described in the judgment as having “an exceptionally
forceful personality”, the mother wanted to be the sole influence in the lives
of her daughters, whom she schooled at home behind drawn curtains and kept
isolated from the world.
The mother, who was imprisoned for child cruelty, had
three adopted daughters but desperately wanted a fourth and was distraught when
authorities told her in 2007 that she would not receive approval for a further
adoption.
Instead, she persuaded the eldest of her three
daughters to embark on a program of artificial insemination to provide her with
a baby to raise as her own.
The mother wanted the child to be a girl and made her
daughter use acid douches containing vinegar or lemon juice in the belief that
this would influence an unborn child’s gender.
The daughter said she allowed her body to be used by
her mother because she loved her. In a Mother’s Day card written in 2009, the
daughter pasted a photo of a positive pregnancy test and promised that she
would give her mother that.
Cryos declined to comment on the case or on its
procedures. In a section on home insemination, the sperm bank’s website says:
“In EU the goods can freely be moved from country to country, however, Cryos
cannot know the rules in all countries so the recipient is responsible for the
legality of imports.”
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