Redlegg
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Ex-girlfriend hid sperm and used for in-vitro pregnancy: suit
A Long Island man was stunned to find out that his 4-year-old twins weren’t an accidental pregnancy at all — his desperate girlfriend secretly stashed away his sperm and used it for an in-vitro procedure, he charges in a lawsuit.
Elmont resident Joseph Pressil, 36, wasn’t planning on having children with Anetria Burnett, with whom he was in a relationship for six months in 2007, he said.
So she took matters into her own hands, he told The Post, in order to remain in his Texas house and make a legal bid for half of his possessions.
“A gold digger is an understatement. She was trying to get community property and alimony. She’s ruthless,” he said.
Pressil is suing the fertility clinic that performed the procedure.
“This is more than a nightmare — it’s a horror story,” he told The Post yesterday.
Pressil, a telecommunications manager, said he hooked up with Burnett, 34, when he lived in Texas — and was a little surprised when she announced she was pregnant.
“We always used condoms,” he said. But when a DNA test proved him to be the father, Pressil said he began paying $800 a month in child support.
“At first, I doubted [the children were mine], but I figured I would wait until the twins were born,” he said. “But when the kids were born, they looked just like me.”
The real bombshell dropped last February, when Pressil got a strange receipt in the mail for sperm cryopreservation.
Confused, he called the company that had sent him the paperwork, which referred him to the Advanced Fertility Center of Texas, where a manager asked him to sign a release form.
That’s when he said he uncovered the bizarre plot.
“She was taking [the semen in condoms] after the fact and running down to the clinic with it,” said Jason Gibson, who is representing Pressil in his suit. He now has joint custody.
The fertility clinic’s manager simply assumed he and his ex were married when she got the successful in-vitro fertilization procedure that resulted in the birth of the twins, his suit says.
Pressil then said he confronted Burnett, an exotic dancer, who allegedly told him, “Oh you’re not stupid. I thought you knew.”
“Her reason for doing it was to stay in the home — because I had told her she had to leave my house when we broke up,” he said.
She even filed to have him declared her common-law husband, he said, which would have entitled her to half his property. The filing was denied.
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Gecko
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If this story is true, then Pressil has a lovely lawsuit against the fertility clinic. Also, he shouldn't have to pay child support.
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RJ1
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I bet he makes them swallow from now on.
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DedicatedDad
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I don't want to be gross here, but I saw a case where a woman in a one night stand performing a BJ, took the "stuff" and inserted it into her private area and became pregnant. In court, it was ruled that once the "stuff" had exited his body, it wasn't his property anymore, and she had the right to do whatever she wanted with it.
He has to pay child support.
I suspect the result of this case will be the same.
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Spring
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So....a womans body is her's to do as she pleases and make the decisions regarding pregnancy....but a man's "stuff" is only his prior to "spilling it"? Men...you better just stop ejaculating, you never know who is going to steal it and go make a baby. Oh wait...when you ejaculate, its no longer your property....but then hang on, if it isn't your property....why is the baby? BAER
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Redlegg
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Sounds like she ordered from the dollars menu.....
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Sherron
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"Oh wait...when you ejaculate, its no longer your property....but then hang on, if it isn't your property....why is the baby? BAER"
I wouldn't consider a child anyone's "property", but I do see a difference between dna that leaves the body versus dna that does not. I don't agree with a father having to pay cs after a child is conceived through deception. Then again, it's not the child's fault and a child deserves to be supported by both parent, so not sure what the answer is. It would be nice if the mother's actions came into play if dad is interested in physical custody.
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DedicatedDad
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If the average child support order is $500/month, it comes to a $108,000 over 18 years. If a person used deception to get that kind of money in almost any other act, it would probably be a criminal act with serious repercussions.
I think there should be serious repercussions....I'm just not sure what they should be.
The law states that one cannot profit from a criminal act, thus you can't write a best selling book about all the banks someone robbed or whatever.
Perhaps the person deceived should get primary custody by default. That way, the deceiver doesn't profit, and the child will still be supported by both parents.
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The entire situation is truly disgusting. How anyone can do this is beyond me - even moreso, some laws need to be seriously changed to protect those who are victim to this.
Spring - BAER indeed!
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Sherron
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"If the average child support order is $500/month, it comes to a $108,000 over 18 years. If a person used deception to get that kind of money in almost any other act, it would probably be a criminal act with serious repercussions."
The mother is the one who committed the act. Cs is intended for the child, the mother does not directly benefit from cs unless it is misused. It is also questionable that $500 will cover 100% of the expenses a child adds, so financially speaking, the mother (or another party) contributes as well. I don't see this as a get rich quick scheme.
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