Inmate’s Wife Can’t Use His Contraband Sperm
A federal judge ruled that the wife of a convicted New York mobster cannot use her husband’s sperm to get pregnant because she broke the law by bribing a guard to smuggle it out of prison.
Maria Parlavecchio had argued that it is not against the law to possess the sperm even if it was taken illegally from the minimum-security section of Allenwood, in north-central Pennsylvania.
Judge Malcom Muir wrote that allowing her to use the sperm would reward her for committing a crime.
Antonino Parlavecchio was sentenced in 1992 to 14 years in prison for racketeering and other crimes.
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