THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Martijn van Halen has every right to be angry at Jan Karbaat. The Dutch fertility doctor lied to his parents and used his own sperm to inseminate Van Halen's mother.
1 / 3Joey Hoofdman, who, after DNA testing is one of 49 confirmed children of Dutch fertility doctor Jan Karbaat, poses for a portrait in Alkmaar, Netherlands, Monday, April 15, 2019. Karbaat, who died in 2017, used his own sperm to inseminate 49 women and may have even more children. Ties van der Meer of the Dutch Donor Child Foundation said Monday that three more people have contacted him because they think they may also have been conceived using the sperm of Dr. Jan Karbaat.
Ties van der Meer of the Dutch Donor Child Foundation, which supports such children, says Karbaat could have fathered many more. He said Monday that three more people contacted him over the weekend because they suspect they may also have been conceived using Karbatt's sperm. Most of the Karbaat children are adults now and many have children of their own. Van Halen says it's striking how alike the half-siblings are.
Karbaat's fertility clinic in the town of Barendrecht, a suburb of Rotterdam, was ordered closed in 2009 by a Dutch government health care agency due to poor administration and record keeping. A phone number and email address listed online for the clinic no longer work. "We are all happy with the clarity and the information we now have, so we can get on with our lives," said Joey Hoofdman, 32, one of the people fathered by Karbaat.
"If something is kept secret from all sides, then the only person with all the information — and that is the doctor — has totally free rein," he said.
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