When a woman takes an at-home DNA test, she learns her biological father is her mother’s San Leandro fertility doctor.
With a European mother and a Mexican father, Velasquez was shocked to see she had no Mexican DNA in her. And the surprise didn’t stop there. Scrolling through the list of relatives on the app, she saw a last name that rang an eerie bell.“Because he’s on my birth certificate. I was like [expletive],” she said.
The Velasquez sisters want to publicize the doctor's name, but he hasn’t been charged with a crime or named in a lawsuit. In the 1970s and 1980s, when many of these cases happened, there was no law directly criminalizing this act. There is a law in California now, but the statute of limitation is three years.
“He was in San Leandro. I remember when I got pregnant with my daughter and mom was like ‘He’s a wonderful doctor,’” she said.With questions that needed answers and both parents deceased, Velasquez decided to reach out to the doctor. Over the course of six months, our team verified the doctor’s name on Velasquez’s birth certificate, found the San Leandro hospital where she was born no longer exists and her mother’s medical records were likely destroyed due to routine hospital records maintenance.
He said her parents arranged for an anonymous donor. Back in the 1970s and early 1980s, fertility clinics didn’t normally freeze sperm, so they needed a live donor. Apparently, the day of her mother’s procedure, the donor did not show up. So, the doctor said, he stepped in as favor and used his own sperm.“I believe it was only once.” – Accused Doctor
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