Fertility Doctor Who Used Own Sperm Begins 5-Year Term
A fertility doctor convicted of fraud for using his own sperm to impregnate unwitting patients, producing perhaps 70 children, has begun serving his five-year prison sentence.
Cecil Jacobson entered the federal prison camp at Florence last week, almost two years after he was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., for deceiving patients who sought his help.
Jacobson reported to prison after a judge ruled that he could not remain free on bond now that nearly all of his appeals have been exhausted. Pending is a request for the U.S. Supreme Court to hear his case.
Jacobson, who practiced in Virginia from 1976 to 1988, may have fathered as many as 70 children while telling women he was artificially inseminating them with sperm from anonymous donors, prosecutors said.
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