An alarming international scandal has erupted after investigators revealed that the Denmark-based European Sperm Bank (ESB) spent nearly 20 years distributing sperm around the world from a donor later discovered to carry the deadly TP53 mutation, a gene defect associated with extraordinarily high cancer risk.
At least 197 children across 14 countries were conceived from this single donor, whose sperm continued to be sold for years even after early genetic red flags surfaced.
Shockingly, several children who were fathered by the donor have already been diagnosed with cancer.
According to a new German media investigation, the first warning sign appeared as early as 2020, when a concerning mutation was detected in a donor-conceived child.
However, ESB kept the donor active because the mutation appeared “present only in some sperm cells.”
Instead of stopping distribution or notifying affected families, the sperm bank continued selling the donor’s material worldwide.
It wasn’t until 2023, when cancer cases began appearing in multiple countries, that experts finally connected the dots.
“Then the donation was blocked,” the report notes.
By then, it was too late.
Children conceived in France, Germany, Belgium, and beyond may now face life-threatening genetic futures.
And incredibly, many families received no official warning from clinics, regulators, or the sperm bank itself.
“Many parents learned about the mutation from the media or from other families, while institutions remained silent.
“Some children have already fallen ill, and deaths have also been reported.”
Record Profits and Zero Accountability
The donor, listed as Profile 7069, entered the ESB catalog in 2007 and was marketed as a tall economics student with light brown hair.
His sperm was shipped not only across Europe but as far away as Afghanistan and Bolivia.
And while families unknowingly conceived children with a high-risk cancer mutation, ESB was reporting record profits.
“In 2023, the company achieved over €8 million in profit.”
Regulations Ignored: One Donor Fathered Dozens in a Single Country
In Belgium, where regulations limit donors to six families, 53 children were conceived using sperm from Donor 7069.
The bank blamed the situation on “reporting errors, computer system problems, and the phenomenon of reproductive tourism.”
But the “errors” conveniently allowed the company to keep cashing in on selling the product while failing to implement even the most basic safety controls.
A System in Total Collapse
Investigators now warn that the crisis exposes catastrophic oversight failures across Europe’s fertility industry:
“This case reveals the scale of chaos in European sperm donation procedures, the lack of transparency, and the lack of uniform control standards.”
Parents are now demanding sweeping reform, including an international donor registry and global limits on donor usage, to prevent anything like this from ever happening again.
But for dozens of families already grappling with cancer diagnoses, or fearing them, the damage is done.
This is the exact nightmare scenario critics of Europe’s booming fertility industry have been warning about for years.
It’s a system prioritizing profit, secrecy, and volume over the basic health and safety of children.
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