The fertility doctor who secretly inseminated his own patients – BBC Newsnight

In 2014, Jacoba Ballard discovered her parent’s fertility doctor Donald Cline was her biological father. She tells Newsnight she doesn’t think she will ever know the true extent of Cline’s violations. Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog

In 2014, Jacoba Ballard found out her parent’s fertility doctor was her biological father.

Dr Donald Cline had secretly inseminated his patients. He swapped either a donor’s or husband’s sperm with his own.

In the past five years, more than 90 siblings have been identified through DNA samples.

Many of those still live within 25 miles of each other in Indianapolis.

Newsnight’s Kirsty Wark speaks to Jacoba Ballard, whose journey to expose Dr Cline has been detailed in the Netflix documentary about the scandal, Our Father.

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