A 54-year-old Danish man has accepted a fine and does not have to appear in court after distributing his semen to women without government oversight.
The 54-year-old was accused of transferring and delivering his own semen to at least five women in Denmark between October 2017 and March 2020.
This happened without permission from the Danish Agency for Patient Safety, which manages the area in Denmark.
The man’s lawyer, Tigi Trier, said he accepted a fine for violating the Cell and Tissue Distribution Act.
Thus, he is not being prosecuted for violating the Assisted Reproduction Act.
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— He accepted a fine under the Tissue Act, partly to avoid spending more time and resources on the case, and partly to ensure intimacy and privacy for the couples with whom he has a relationship, Trier says.
At one point, the police spoke of the man risking a fine of 100,000 kroner, but the size of the fine he actually receives is unknown.
The charge of violating the Assisted Reproduction Act is due to the fact that he did so even though he had previously worked as a sperm donor at a sperm bank.
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