Fraud: What's Up, Doc?

What's Up, Doc?

When the happy mother saw her daughter's first baby pictures, she had a startled reaction: "Whoa, who does she look like?" The woman and her husband agreed that their child bore a striking resemblance to Dr. Cecil Jacobson, who had been treating them for infertility.

They weren't the only ones. In Alexandria, Va., last week, a federal jury found that Jacobson had artificially inseminated more than a dozen patients with his own sperm, claiming that it came from anonymous donors. DNA tests linked Jacobson to at least 15 such children, and prosecutors charged he may have fathered as many as 75....

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