Ex-girlfriend hid sperm and used for in-vitro pregnancy: suit

NY Post ^ | November 26, 2011 | KIERAN CROWLEY

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A Long Island man was stunned to find out that his 4-year-old twins weren’t an accidental pregnancy at all — his desperate girlfriend secretly stashed away his sperm and used it for an in-vitro procedure, he charges in a lawsuit.

Elmont resident Joseph Pressil, 36, wasn’t planning on having children with Anetria Burnett, with whom he was in a relationship for six months in 2007, he said.

So she took matters into her own hands, he told The Post, in order to remain in his Texas house and make a legal bid for half of his possessions.

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The real bombshell dropped last February, when Pressil got a strange receipt in the mail for sperm cryopreservation.

Confused, he called the company that had sent him the paperwork, which referred him to the Advanced Fertility Center of Texas, where a manager asked him to sign a release form.

That’s when he said he uncovered the bizarre plot.

“She was taking [the semen in condoms] after the fact and running down to the clinic with it,” said Jason Gibson, who is representing Pressil in his suit. He now has joint custody.

[Tax-chick]

He’s a handsome man, but obviously not very smart. News flash, cutie: If you have sex, pregnancy is not “accidental,” it is “expected.”

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Well, a pickle was involved...

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Wow, what could possibly go wrong?

[JRios1968]

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Agreed. Won’t do the poor sap any good, though.

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Ouch.

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I seem to recall that a freeper claimed that it happened to him. Can’t remember who, though.

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*snort* I was thinking of that exact cartoon.

[longtermmemmory]

iteresting legal question.

sperm donors have no cutody rights or obligations.

if he was a mere sperm donor then she is stuck.

The courts should at the very least give him sole custody and her zero profit from the deception.

[JRios1968]

Whatever you do, do NOT Google the phrase “sperm bank” w/o Safe Search on.

Just sayin’...

[PapaBear3625]

You might be remembering me having posted that story before.

[5thGenTexan]

He really deserved this, people?

Don’t we talk about people using condoms to be responsible?

How could he have prevented this?

How about "don't voluntarily have sex with people you don't want to have kids with"?

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The whole story is a bunch of Bull Sperm to me..

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This is a situation where men get *****ed no matter what. Do a keyword search for paternityfraud.

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It’s very possible.

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Fair warning.