Japanese woman gives up baby after discovering that the sperm donor faked his identity just to have sex with her
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Japanese woman gives up baby after discovering that the sperm donor faked his identity just to have sex with her
Now this is an emotional rollercoaster folks so strap in tight! A Japanese woman has made headlines after she gave up her baby when she discovered the sperm donor she slept with ten times to get pregnant lied about his background just to have sex with her.
The 30-year-old married woman from Tokyo was reportedly seeking a sperm donor in a bid to have a second child with her husband.
It was said that her husband carries a hereditary condition that could be passed to his children, hence, the couple opted to have a second child via a sperm donor.
The woman reportedly met the donor — a man in his 20s who claimed that he was Japanese, has graduated from Kyoto University, and was single — on a social media site in 2019.
Tokyo Shimbun reported that the woman had sex with the donor ten times before she got pregnant in June 2019.
However, months after the baby was conceived and it was too late for the woman to have an abortion, the couple discovered that the man faked his identity — he's married, Chinese, and not a graduate of Kyoto University.
Distressed Japanese woman gave up her baby to a child facility in Tokyo after she discovered that the man she had sex with 10 times faked his identity. Credit: Alamy Stock Photo.
The couple handed the baby to a child care facility to put up for adoption after the woman gave birth. They also filed a lawsuit against the donor seeking £2million in damages for fraud and emotional distress.
The woman's lawyer revealed that the 30-year-old suffered from sleeping disorders and was physically and emotionally traumatised by the experience, citing that the backlash the woman faced for giving up the child has greatly affected her.
However, Japanese child welfare worker Mizuho Sasaki described the woman as "shallow" for "treating the child as an object".
He told Vice: "I think it’s better to leave the kid with someone who can be a good foster parent."
Fertility treatment facilities in Japan are rare despite the country’s declining population. Credit: Monkey Business/REX/Shutterstock.
Despite the declining population of young people in Japan, sperm donations are still virtually unregulated in the country.
Artificial insemination clinics are rare in Japan — only 12 hospitals across the country offer fertility treatment and only one recently-opened commercial sperm bank is in operation.
Additionally, fertility treatment is only open to married women, which means single women and LGBTQ+ people are not allowed to undergo the treatment.
It is said that these hurdles had caused people to resort to underground networks — which offer cheap, or free, options for sperm donation — despite the added health and legal risks.
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