OB-GYN sued as DNA tests suggest he used own sperm to impregnate patients: Such a betrayal of trust
A mother got a shocking surprise when a DNA test revealed her son had nine half-siblings, all of whom were genetically connected to her former gynecologist.Mary Ellen Lukezich sought fertility treatments from Dr.Frederick Dettmann in the early 1980s with her late husband, Thomas Laedtke, after the couple had trouble conceiving a child of their own, ultimately deciding to undergo artificial insemination.Lukezich recalled Dettmann suggested using a medical student’s donated sperm, owing to the fact that he lived out of state and matched her and her husband’s appearance, according to NBC News.
“I was young,” said Lukezich, who is suing the doc.“I so wanted to be a mom that I was going to do anything, and I did whatever he asked me to do.”She became pregnant and gave birth to her only son, Joe Laedtke, now 43, who took an Ancestry DNA test in December 2024 out of curiosity — only to find the disturbing and unexpected results.“I got an email from Ancestry, which is the company that I ordered the DNA test from, that I had a half-sister,” Laedtke said.
“And so when I went into my DNA results and the relationships, I had noticed that there was multiple half-siblings that it had suggested that I was related to.”Laedtke only learned he had been conceived from donor sperm when he called his mother with the news.She was stunned to learn that the results indicated Dettman was the donor, Laedtke said he felt “disgust and disappointment” about the apparent egregious breach of trust by his mother’s doctor.“What he did was incomprehensible, and it was such a betrayal of trust that I just want to make sure that if I have the opportunity to hold him accountable for the pain that he caused my mom and the things that he put her through that maybe she didn’t even know at the time,” he told the outlet.“I feel like I’ve been raped,” Lukezich said.
“And it’s not right.And I want other women to feel OK about coming forward with this.”Last wee...