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Bad Seed

When “Paula” went to Reproductive Medical Technologies to be artificially inseminated with her husband’s sperm, she noticed employee Thomas R. Lippert and “his” baby pictures. “Those were the children he had helped people have,” she says. With the Midvale, Utah, clinic’s help, Paula had a daughter, “Ashley,” in 1992. But after the family did some DNA testing for fun, Paula discovered that Lippert had provided more help than she’d bargained for: he was Ashley’s biological father, rather than her husband. Paula suspects the semen switch was deliberate. “All those photos of the babies that he was so proud of, I thought, ‘Oh my God, how many of those are his biological children?’” The University of Utah says it’s investigating what happened at the private clinic a faculty member owned — but both the faculty member and Lippert are now dead. Before working at the clinic, Lippert served two years in prison: he’d been accused of abducting a college woman and applying electric shocks to try to make her love him. (AC/KUTV Salt Lake City) ...And now he has who knows how many kids, who probably don’t love him either.
Original Publication Date: 26 January 2014
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 20.

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