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Meet 41-year-old Dutch musician with 550 children

A serial sperm donor, currently living in Kenya, who has fathered 550 children is being sued amid accusations his prolific donations increase the risk of accidental incest. According to The Telegraph, the Netherlands' Donorkind Foundation is taking Jonathan Jacob Meijer to court to stop him from donating sperm and accuses him of lying about the number of children he has fathered.

It quoted Donorking as saying that Mr. Meijer, 41, a musician from The Hague, is on a Dutch donation blacklist but has continued to donate abroad, including in Denmark and Ukraine. The 41-year-old is said to have also approached prospective parents looking for home insemination online and on social media and has shown no signs of changing his behaviour. Mr. Meijer sometimes used the alias Ruud, when offering to be a sperm donor, the Netherlands' AD newspaper said.

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