[myAmygdala]

...gets $800/month in child support.

The original article can be found on SFGate.com here:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...250S07.DTL

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Thursday, February 24, 2005 (AP)
Court: Man Can Sue Over Surprise Pregnancy



(02-24) 09:55 PST Chicago (AP) --

An appeals court said a man can press a claim for emotional distress after
learning a former lover had used his sperm to have a baby. But he can't
claim theft, the ruling said, because the sperm were hers to keep.

The ruling Wednesday by the Illinois Appellate Court sends Dr. Richard O.
Phillips' distress case back to trial court.

Phillips accuses Dr. Sharon Irons of a "calculated, profound personal
betrayal" after their affair six years ago, saying she secretly kept semen
after they had oral sex, then used it to get pregnant.

He said he didn't find out about the child for nearly two years, when
Irons filed a paternity lawsuit. DNA tests confirmed Phillips was the
father, the court papers state.

Phillips was ordered to pay about $800 a month in child support, said
Irons' attorney, Enrico Mirabelli.

Phillips sued Irons, claiming he has had trouble sleeping and eating and
has been haunted by "feelings of being trapped in a nightmare," court
papers state.

Irons responded that her alleged actions weren't "truly extreme and
outrageous" and that Phillips' pain wasn't bad enough to merit a lawsuit.
The circuit court agreed and dismissed Phillips' lawsuit in 2003.

But the higher court ruled that, if Phillips' story is true, Irons
"deceitfully engaged in sexual acts, which no reasonable person would
expect could result in pregnancy, to use plaintiff's sperm in an
unorthodox, unanticipated manner yielding extreme consequences."

The judges backed the lower court decision to dismiss the fraud and theft
claims, agreeing with Irons that she didn't steal the sperm.

"She asserts that when plaintiff 'delivered' his sperm, it was a gift
— an absolute and irrevocable transfer of title to property from a
donor to a donee," the decision said. "There was no agreement that the
original deposit would be returned upon request."

Phillips is representing himself in the case. He could not be reached for
comment Thursday.

"There's a 5-year-old child here," Mirabelli said. "Imagine how a child
feels when your father says he feels emotionally damaged by your birth."

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Copyright 2005 AP

[greg]

That's fucked up!

[snarg]

it blows!

[greg]

it blows!

(OMG!)

Always the punny phucker!

[snarg]

hey, gman, hope all is well, brotha

narg:

[greg]

hey, gman, hope all is well, brotha

narg:

All good on my end!

[snarg]

All good in my end!

:eek:

[Tribal Dragon]

Lesson learned; From now on, she must gargle with listerine after every blow-job.

That's some pretty funny shit.

[Jdub]

[olderwoman]

that is a pretty low thing for a woman to do. If she wanted a baby that bad then she should be willing to raise the baby by herself unless the father wants to be a part of the babies life.