Fertility Doctor’s Sinister Secret Finally Exposed After 40 Years

Jacoba’s Journey

The doctor had swapped out his own sperm with the supposed donor’s making the woman, Jacoba Ballard, his child. He did not tell her mother, and the family lived thinking that she was the child of a stranger. This was only the tip of the iceberg…

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