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sl8

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Sat Dec 29, 2018, 04:49 PM Dec 2018

Couple sue Vermont gynecologist for fathering child

From https://www.wcax.com/content/news/503616351.html
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Couple sue Vermont gynecologist for fathering child

By Ike Bendavid | Posted: Fri 11:44 AM, Dec 28, 2018 | Updated: Fri 6:35 PM, Dec 28, 2018

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) A Florida couple is suing a Vermont doctor over a decades-old artificial insemination procedure in which he allegedly used his own semen.

The case filed this month in federal court in Burlington dates back to 1977 and targets Montpelier-based Dr. John Boyd Coates, III.

The couple, Cheryl Rousseau and Peter Rousseau, claim they signed a contract with Dr. Coates for him to artificially inseminate Cheryl using donated semen from an unnamed medical student who resembled her husband.

"This could not have been done accidentally" said Jerry O'Neill, the lawyer for the Rousseau family.

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Couple sue Vermont gynecologist for fathering child (Original Post) sl8 Dec 2018 OP
Maybe it will get to trial in another 40 years. Sneederbunk Dec 2018 #1
How awful for the child and parents. Another psycho, appalachiablue Dec 2018 #2

appalachiablue

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2. How awful for the child and parents. Another psycho,
Sat Dec 29, 2018, 06:28 PM
Dec 2018

entitled physician maybe with a God complex.

'He says he cannot speculate on a motive for the alleged insemination deception other than narcissism.'

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