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发帖数: 2555 | 1 LONDON (AP) — A woman desperate for another child forced her 14-year-old
daughter to get pregnant using syringes of donor sperm, a British judge said.
In a ruling reported for the first time Monday, High Court judge Peter
Jackson said the mother had behaved in "a wicked and selfish way" that
almost defied belief.
The judge said the woman, an American divorcee living in Britain with three
adopted children, hatched the plan after she was prevented from adopting a
fourth.
The scheme involved getting her oldest daughter to inseminate herself with
syringes of sperm purchased over the Internet from a Denmark-based company,
Cryos International.
Jackson said the daughter, identified only as A, "became pregnant at the
mother's request, using donor sperm bought by the mother, with the purpose
of providing a fourth child for the mother to bring up as her own."
In his ruling, the judge quoted the teenager as saying said she was shocked
by the suggestion, but thought, "If I do this ... maybe she will love me
more."
"My mum is a very determined person and she does her best not to let
anything get in her way if she wants it," the teenager added.
The judge said the mother also made the teenager use douches of vinegar or
lemon and lime juice in hopes of increasing her chances of having a girl.
The judge said it was likely but not certain that the daughter soon became
pregnant and suffered a miscarriage. After six more attempts with the donor
sperm, she gave birth to a baby boy in July 2011, when she was 17.
But midwives at the hospital became alarmed by the odd behavior of A's
mother. Her daughter wanted to breastfeed the baby, but her mother said: "We
don't want any of that attachment thing."
The hospital alerted the authorities, and the children were taken into
foster care. The mother is now serving a five-year jail term for child
cruelty.
Details of the case were heard during proceedings at the family division of
the High Court over the children's future last year. They were reported for
the first time Monday after several British media organizations, including
the publisher of The Guardian newspaper, challenged reporting restrictions.
A court order bars identifying the family members in order to protect the
children. |
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