Why You Should Maybe Not Use An Anonymous Sperm Donor. YIKES.

According to this, Chris Aggeles, pictured above, has fathered at least 36 children after lying to a sperm bank about his background and health.

Chris walked into a Georgia police department last week to turn himself in for committing fraud, after falsifying his sperm donor application.

The sperm bank, Xytex, is now being sued by 10 families who allege that they were misinformed about their sperm donor. Four of the families are from Canada, five are American, and one is from the UK.

What Chris TOLD Xytex is that he had an IQ of 160 (so did Albert Einsten), that he was physically and mentally healthy, had a master’s degree, and was working on a PhD in neuroscience engineering.

Impressive, right?

The reality is that Chris has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and narcissistic personality disorder, and as a bonus, schizoaffective disorder. He’s also a convicted burglar who served 8 months in jail.

Not exactly someone you’d choose to be the father of your child. Amirite?

Anyway, I guess Chris was feeling guilty, so even though he was supposed to be an anonymous donor, he sent an email to some of the mothers of his children in 2014 to let them know who he was. They freaked, naturally, and started digging into his background. And then they sued Xytex.

Xytex, meanwhile, insists that they’ve done nothing wrong, and they say that they’ve always let sperm recipients know that they don’t actually VERIFY any of the information sperm donors give them. Because who cares about vetting? It’s not like sperm is used for anything important. (/sarc)

Comforting, huh?

The attorney for the families says she has sympathy for Chris, saying that Xytex “takes advantage of vulnerable people, including the mentally ill.”  She also said that Xytex’s website promises to alert parents of any “medically significant information it learns about donors.”

Given that Chris has turned himself in, and there’s a verifiable police report outlining his many issues, the attorney says there is no excuse for Xytex to keep information from the parents.

“Finally, Xytex is indisputably required both morally and in accord with its representations on its website that it advises purchasers of its sperm when it learns of new information that it deems important it will communicate the information to its purchasers. Come on, Xytex. What more do you need?”

One of the moms who received Chris’s sperm and now has his 9 year old son, says that sperm banks need to do more digging into donors’ backgrounds.

“It should be obvious by now that the honour system is a highly ineffective way to verify information. No one should be using the honour system as a means of determining whether a person is suitable to donate gametes.”

But what are sperm banks to do, exactly? I mean, I suppose a criminal background check is simple enough, but do they need to demand health records? Do they need to give IQ tests? Do they need to do something more than the “honor system” they currently apparently use?

Or do people simply need to STOP GETTING SPERM from donors they don’t know? Would you take the risk?

Discuss.