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Canadian doctor accused of using own sperm to inseminate patients to pay $10.7M in tentative settlement - Fox News
Jul 31, 2021 58 secs

Hundreds of victims of a former Canadian fertility doctor, who allegedly used the wrong sperm and sometimes his own while artificially inseminating patients, will be awarded $10.7 million in a tentative agreement reached this week, according to reports.

The class-action lawsuit was brought in 2016 by Dan and Davina Dixon and later joined by more than 200 others who found through DNA tests that their child’s biological father was not who they thought, according to the Ottawa Citizen. .

Norman Barwin, 82, was allegedly found to be the father of at least 17 children conceived at his office, including the Dixons’ daughter Rebecca.

Barwin has denied the charges and admitted no wrongdoing in the settlement, according to the Washington Post. .

The Dixons sued Barwin after they allegedly discovered that their daughter, conceived in 1990 while Davina Dixon was under Barwin's care, was actually Barwin's child, according to the Post. 

"I am not sure we will ever achieve closure," she said, according to the Citizen

Lyon Palmer, the father of Kat Palmer – who is also allegedly Barwin’s biological daughter – said Barwin told him "that he used his own sperm to test out a sperm counter," according to the CBC

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