Jewish doctor accused of using own sperm to impregnate patient dies in plane crash
Dr. Wortman was the target of a lawsuit by a daughter of one his patients who was impregnated in the 1980's, accusing him of donating his own sperm and lying about it.
A Jewish doctor from New York, accused of secretly using his own sperm to impregnate patients, has died in plane crash.
Dr. Morris Wortman, 72, crashed in an experimental aircraft with a pilot on Sunday.
“The wings of the aircraft became detached from the fuselage and fell to the ground in an orchard,” Sky News quoted Sheriff Christopher Bourke as saying.
Dr. Wortman was the target of a lawsuit by a daughter of one his patients who was impregnated in the 1980s.
The woman alleged that Dr. Wortman had told her mother that the sperm donation she received was from a local student but that it really came from him.
The lawsuit also accused Dr. Wortman of keeping the information from the daughter, his alleged biological offspring, after she came his gynaecology patient.
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