Fertility Clinic Ordered To Release Sperm Donor List After White Couple Have Asian Baby – LADbible

A white couple in the US – who have now split up – have filed lawsuits after a fertility clinic mix up resulted in the woman giving birth to an Asian baby.

Kristina Koedderich and her ex-husband Drew Wasilewski have both separately filed lawsuits at the Superior Court of New Jersey in Essex County, claiming they paid $500,000 (£405,637) to the Institute of Reproductive Medicine and Science at Saint Barnabas (IRMS) to have a child together.

A white couple has filed a lawsuit after a sperm mix up resulted in the woman giving birth to an Asian baby. Credit: PA

However, after the pair provided their sperm and egg in November of 2012 and had a daughter in July 2013, they began to notice that their child was developing Asian features as well as a blood disorder that is associated with Southeast Asian heritage, according to court documents.

Subseqeunt DNA test revealed that Wasilewski wasn’t the father – news which was said to have ‘devastated’ him. Unsurprisingly, neither of them could believe a mix up like this could happen.

According to NJ.com, Koedderich said in her deposition: “He was crying. I was crying. And I called [IRMS] the next day and asked how – could this be possible? Could this really be possible?”

Last month, Superior Court Judge Keith Lynott in Essex County released an order demanding that IRMS released the names of the men and women who used the clinic at the same time as the couple, as well as those who worked there. More specifically, it requested details of who was supervising the lab technician who conducted the procedure and all the Asian men whose sperm was thawed during this time period.

They have also demanded that the clinic investigate all the possible women who may have wrongly ended up with Wasilewski’s sperm.

According to the Daily Mail, Wasilewski said in his deposition: “I would very much like to be involved. I think, as children, you want to know who – who and where you came from. And – I believe I’m a very good person. And I’d like them to know who I am, as a person, learn about me as much as I learned about my mother and father.”