University investigates Utah clinic's sperm mix-up

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[Morgana]

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The University of Utah is investigating a complaint that a convicted felon working at a fertility clinic replaced a customer's sperm with his own, fathering a girl 21 years ago.

The mother of the girl, Pamela Branum, says she and her husband discovered a genetic mismatch in their daughter, and were able to trace her lineage with help from relatives of the now-deceased fertility clinic worker, Thomas Ray Lippert.

"I don't think we're the only ones," Branum told CBS affiliate KUTV in Salt Lake City. "We think we're one of many" victims who used a clinic that was operated by faculty members.

[rktman]

Shaken, not stirred?

[GeronL]

God’s way is still the best way

[DannyTN]

Cowbirds of humanity

[Morgana]

I think this was put through the blender.

[rktman]

Thus creating “blended” families? I’ll stop now. :>)

[Steely Tom]

I’m thinking that an expression slightly different from “mix-up” might be used with some accuracy here.

[Morgana]

That was bad! Really bad! :)

[rktman]

That’s why I said I would stop now.:>)

[RatRipper]

“I think his name was Abby . . . Abbynormal....”

[bobby.223]

Garbage in...garbage out.

[Disambiguator]

I’m thinking that an expression slightly different from “mix-up” might be used with some accuracy here.

You mean, like the British slang for a mistake that utilizes "fowl" terminology?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Years ago, there was a fertility doctor arrested in Utah when it was found all the patient’s kids looked like him.

[Scoutmaster]

I see what you did there . . . and I like it.

[a fool in paradise]

It was not a mix-up. That would indicate an error on someone’s part. This was a malicious act.