Under Dutch law sperm donors can father no more than 25 children. Photo / 123RF
Under Dutch law sperm donors can father no more than 25 children. Photo / 123RF
A Dutch sperm donor is reported to have fathered 102 children after donating at 11 different clinics.
The authorities in the Netherlands have launched an investigation into the man whose identity has not been disclosed.
Under Dutch law sperm donors can father no more than 25 children. This is intendedto minimise the risk of children later entering into a relationship with a half sibling.
Donors are required to enter into contracts pledging not to donate at different clinics, but this provision if frequently unenforced.
RTL reported that it had identified a second man who has donated sperm at more than one clinic.
Jan Karbaat, who died aged 89 in April, ran one of Holland's largest sperm banks and billed himself as "a pioneer in the field of fertilisation".
Earlier this year a Dutch court was asked by 23 parents and children born through IVF treatment at the Bijdorp medical centre to carry out tests on Karbaat's DNA.
