He is a musician, a youtuber... and a sperm donor: he already has 550 children

Jonathan Jacob Meijer, a Dutchman who admitted to having fathered

assured this Thursday that he is not a rabid bull with a procreative impulse, during a procedure in a court in this country initiated by a mother of two children born with his sperm who tries to

in clinics and through social networks.

The case, which was seen for sentencing on April 28, pits Jonathan, a

against Joyce, a mother who gave birth to two children with the defendant's sperm, and the

of children conceived with the defendant's semen attended

the Court in the Dutch city of The Hague , so many that some had to follow the trial from another room.

He has children in the Netherlands, Australia, Germany, Denmark, Spain, the United Kingdom, Italy, Kenya and Tanzania (Youtube).

According to the plaintiffs, Jonathan's actions are dangerous, given the scientifically proven risk of

for donation-born children, and, furthermore, the defendant hinders the sexual freedom of his children because they must always check if a potential mate is not actually your stepbrother.

Jonathan, who admitted when he arrived in court that he fathered at least 550 children, defended that

, because his children can know who their father is by not being an anonymous donor, and regretted having become the face of those who they donate sperm on a large scale.

"They present me as if I were some kind of rabid bull with a procreative impulse. I am not. I do not believe in evolution, but in creation," he defended himself.

In addition, he assured that he has a good relationship with many parents and that

"

, but if future parents approach me I want to be free to respond," he promised, adding that he would also like to have a family of his own.

He is on a black list and a mother sued him (Youtube).

The association of Dutch gynecologists NVOG warned of this case in 2017, when it learned that he had fathered at least

Dutch clinics, which later included him on

, but he continued to donate in other countries and through social networks.

Joyce, the complainant mother, assures that she has contact with affected parents in Australia, Germany, Denmark... "They are everywhere - she stressed -, also in Spain, the United Kingdom, Italy, in Africa, Kenya and Tanzania".

unscrupulous gynecologists

in 2004

, and for each treatment clinics are required to register the case with the Donor Data Foundation for Artificial Insemination, but this information is not exchanged between clinics.

The Dutch Parliament has on the table a proposal to review the operation of the national semen donor registry, which has existed for twenty years, but it does not work to stop cases like Jonathan's and only provides data on a father to the children who upon request and under very strict conditions.

There is no database with a general national description of the number of children that a donor has managed to father, so the Ministry of Health's proposal is to create precisely a database that makes it possible to verify that a donor has not fathered more

, from a maximum of 12 women, as indicated by the norm in the Netherlands.

Jonathan's actions are dangerous, given the scientifically proven risk of inbreeding, incest and negative psychosocial consequences for the children born (Youtube).

In principle, this approach has broad parliamentary support, but, in addition, various parties have submitted their own amendment proposals.

The social democrat PvdA and the green left GroenLinks want to make exceeding the maximum number of descendants per donation really a crime punishable by law, not as it is now.

In addition to Jonathan's case, at least

have already been identified as having used

without the knowledge of women who wanted to get pregnant at their fertility clinics in the Netherlands.

One of them is Jan Karbaat, with

.

Or gynecologist Jan Wildschut, who fathered at least 47 children.

In 2021, a record 1,415 people born by sperm donation sought genetic information about their biological father, given these scandals.

The latest case came to light last November.

A Dutch man, who recently died of esophageal cancer, donated his sperm to different women he contacted through the internet and would have fathered at least 80 children in the Netherlands.

Before he died, he confessed to his brother the existence of a list of women he helped get pregnant and admitted to using pseudonyms on the Internet when he offered his sperm.

In 2021, a record 1,415 people born by sperm donation sought genetic information about their biological father, given these scandals.

EFE Agency.

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