Lawsuit claims Ottawa doctor used own sperm to impregnate fertility patients
An Ontario doctor once suspended for inseminating women with the wrong sperm at his fertility clinic is now accused of allegedly using his own biological material to impregnate certain patients who came to him for treatment.
An Ottawa family has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Dr. Bernard Norman Barwin, alleging he is the biological father of their 26-year-old daughter.
In a statement of claim, the family alleges Barwin falsely claimed to be using Daniel Dixon’s sperm to inseminate the man’s wife, Davina, in 1990 when the couple was trying to conceive a child.
It claims the couple had a daughter, Rebecca, but DNA tests have conclusively shown that she is not Daniel Dixon’s biological child.