Wicked; family discovers sperm mishap decades after their daughter was born

 Jan 10, 2014, 10:27 AM A Utah family who used a sperm bank more than 20
years ago uncovered a nightmare when they
performed DNA tests this year: their adult daughter's
real father is a convicted felon who swapped his
sperm with theirs. The family has chosen to remain anonymous but
has spoken under the pseudonyms of Paula, Jeff,
and Ashley to genealogist CeCe Moore about their
plight. "They came to me in October 2012... when they
were interested in finding out who Ashley's biological
father was," Moore told ABC News today. Moore
runs an online email list and blog about genetics and
geneaology. "They never imagined they'd uncover
what they did." Paula and Jeff used a Salt Lake City area fertility
clinic in the 1990s to conceive Ashley, but recently
performed a DNA test and found out that Ashley's
real father was convicted kidnapper Thomas Lippert,
who worked at the clinic in the 1980s and 1990s,
they told local news station KUTV. He died in 1999. "I felt my stomach just drop," Paula told the station.
"When I called my daughter and my husband's DNA
up next to one another they didn't share any DNA at
all, and I just thought to myself, 'oh my God.'" Now, the couple and Moore, along with the
University of Utah, are urging families that used the
Reproductive Medical Technologies Clinic to take
advantage of free paternity testing to see if Lippert
had any more victims. Several families have already
contacted Moore and Paula through an email address they set up, Moore told ABC. "Several said last night through email that they were
clients there and were really worried. Hopefully this
is an isolated case, but we just don't know," Moore
said. The University of Utah is offering free paternity tests
to parents who used the sperm bank during those
years. "The bottom line is that we are hoping that couples
who used the Reproductive Medical Technologies
Clinic in Salt Lake City (which they, like Paula, may
have simply known as the University of Utah's
fertility clinic) to conceive between 1986 and 1995
will hear about this story and reach out to Paula," Moore said in a blog post on her website this week. "If couples suspect that they may have been one of
Tom's victims, they are encouraged to have their
children tested...," she wrote. Paula told KUTV she believes Lippert's actions were
purposeful. He kept a stack of baby photos at the
desk of the clinic that he showed off as babies he
"helped" to conceive, she recalled. "I just thought, 'oh my gosh,' this was not an
accident, this was intentional. All those photos of
the babies that he was so proud of I thought, 'oh my
god how many of those are his biological children?'"
Paula told KUTV. The clinic, which is now defunct, was associated
with the University of Utah. According to the
university, it was a privately-owned clinic that did
some work for the school, but was also owned in
part by three faculty and staff members. "Since April 2013, the University of Utah has been
investigating credible information regarding the
possible mislabeling or tampering of a semen
sample," the university said in a statement,
referencing the plight of Paula, Jeff, and Ashley. "There are no remaining records from RMTI to prove
the claim and the man in question has been
deceased since 1999. Consequently, it is unknown
how this incident might have happened. In addition,
there is no evidence to indicate this situation
extends beyond the case in question," they said. Culled