I can’t imagine my mother forcing our last born to bear a
child for when she was 14 years old. There a lot of sane looking insane people
around. In a ruling reported for the first time Monday, High Court judge Peter
Jackson said the mother had behaved in "a wicked and selfish way"
that almost defied belief.
A woman desperate for another child forced her
14-year-old daughter to get pregnant using syringes of donor sperm, a British
judge said.
The judge said the woman, an American divorcee living in
Britain with three adopted children, hatched the plan after she was prevented
from adopting a fourth. The scheme involved getting her oldest daughter to
inseminate herself with syringes of sperm purchased over the Internet from a
Denmark-based company, Cryos International.
Jackson said the daughter, identified only as A,
"became pregnant at the mother's request, using donor sperm bought by the
mother, with the purpose of providing a fourth child for the mother to bring up
as her own."
In his ruling, the judge quoted the teenager as saying
said she was shocked by the suggestion, but thought, "If I do this ...
maybe she will love me more."
"My mum is a very determined person and she does her
best not to let anything get in her way if she wants it," the teenager
added. The judge said the mother also made the teenager take extreme measures
to increase her chances of having a girl.
The judge said it was likely but not certain that the
daughter soon became pregnant and suffered a miscarriage. After six more
attempts with the donor sperm, she gave birth to a baby boy in July 2011, when
she was 17.
But midwives at the hospital became alarmed by the odd
behavior of A's mother. Her daughter wanted to breastfeed the baby, but her
mother said: "We don't want any of that attachment thing." The
hospital alerted the authorities, and the children were taken into foster care.
The mother is now serving a five-year jail term for child cruelty.
Details of the case were heard during proceedings at the
family division of the High Court over the children's future last year. They
were reported for the first time Monday after several British media
organizations, including the publisher of The Guardian newspaper, challenged
reporting restrictions.
A court order bars identifying the family members in
order to protect the children
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