A judge made a ruling in a rather complicated case involving the illegal use of sperm. A man sued his ex when he found out that she had secretly used his sperm to conceive a child.
The judge felt the woman’s actions could not be termed criminal, because the man had given his sperm to her voluntarily.
Dr. Richard Phillips sued Dr. Sharon Irons years back. Phillips said that his former girlfriend, Sharon Irons, deceived him by stealing his own semen that she got through oral sex.
The woman then used Phillips sperm to get pregnant without informing him. The two lovers broke up and Richard Phillips didn’t know about the baby.
He found out about the baby after Sharon Irons filed a paternity suit seeking a monthly allowance. He was
ordered to pay $800 a month child support.
Richard Phillips accused his former lover of “calculated, profound personal betrayal” and required a compensation for the moral damage. Irons did not plead guilty, having said that she did nothing bad to her former lover.
The woman added that Phillips’ anguish could not
be considered a suitable reason for a lawsuit. The court agreed with Irons’s arguments, but Phillips refused to give up and filed an appeal.
The Illinois Appeals Court has finally acknowledged the rightfulness of the deceived man. The court ruled that Sharon Irons had a s*xual affair with Richard Phillips to obtain his semen.
Oral sex eventually resulted in pregnancy, which is obviously impossible, and testifies to premeditated fraudulent intentions of the woman, the court said.
The judge added, however, that it would be wrong to accuse Irons of sperm theft. Ejaculation was a gift of the plaintiff.
Furthermore, there was no prior agreement that the original deposit would be returned upon request, the judge said.
Source:Information Nigeria
NOTE: This story was published by Naija.io in February 2014 sourcing it from Information Nigeria.
