Parents sue sperm bank for misleading them about donor

New York

WHEN Angela Collins and her partner wanted to have a child, they reached out to a sperm bank in Georgia to look for potential donors. They thought that they had found the perfect match in Donor 9623, described as a man with an IQ of 160 who was healthy and working towards his doctorate.

But in 2014, about seven years after Ms Collins gave birth to their son, she and her partner, Elizabeth Hanson, made an upsetting discovery after learning the man's identity through a donor sibling group. The donor had a history of mental illness and a criminal record, and had exaggerated his educational accomplishments, they said.

"It was like a lead ball went to the bottom of our stomach for both my partner and I," Ms Collins said in a radio interview last week with As It Happens on the network Canadian Broadcasting Corp. She added: "We know nobody is perfect, but …