Couple Sues Fertility Doctor 30 Years Later After Daughter's Fun DNA Test Gift Reveals She's Only HALF Theirs!
04.02.2022 - 22:21
/ perezhilton.com
This is a 23andMe NIGHTMARE!
A family from Ohio is suing their fertility doctor and the hospital system after finding out that they had been given the wrong sperm during the insemination of their daughter — thirty years ago. Jessica Galloway only discovered that her father wasn’t her biological parent after being gifted a DNA test that ended up turning her life upside down.
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According to ABC News, Jessica’s parents, Jeanine and Mike Harvey, gave their daughter the test for Christmas 2020 ahead of a planned trip to Italy with her husband. She hoped to possibly locate distant family members on her father’s side during her vacation.
Jessica told CBS News:
She went on:
That DNA test, and a later follow-up, confirmed the shocking news that she had no biological connection to Mike Harvey.
Following the life-altering revelation, Jessica and her parents filed a lawsuit against Dr. Nicholas Spirtos, the fertility specialist who performed the procedure in 1991, as well as Summa Health System. They had many questions, including what happened to Mike’s sperm and who, exactly, was Jessica’s biological father. According to the lawsuit, Jessica was eventually able to track down the man, who with his wife had been in the process of in vitro fertilization treatment when the Harveys were being treated by Spirtos at Akron General Hospital.
In a press conference on Wednesday, Jessica stated that “No one should have to experience what we’ve been through.” Her mother admitted:
Her husband Mike added that it is “extremely difficult to watch your family in pain.” He went on:
Despite this unimaginable shock, Jeanine remarked:
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