SPERM DONOR TO PAY 6,000 CHILD SUPPORT TO LESBIAN COUPLE !!!

[Daanyeer]

Craigslist sperm donor's anger as he is forced to pay $6,000 child support to lesbian couple he fathered child for - despite having NO parental rights
Angela Bauer, 40, and partner Jennifer Schreiner, 34, placed ad in 2009
Donor William Marotta relinquished financial responsibility for child

Kansas state ordered Mr Marotta to pay after lesbian couple applied
for welfare



By Louise Boyle

PUBLISHED:14:17 GMT, 3 January 2013| UPDATED: 14:41 GMT, 3 January 2013


A sperm donor said today that he would not have donated to a lesbian couple had he known the huge financial responsibility that has now fallen to him.


William Marotta fathered a child with Angela Bauer, 40, and partner Jennifer Schreiner, 34, who found him via Craigslist three years ago.

The three signed a legal document which stated Mr Marotta, a married mechanic who fosters children with his wife, would have no rights to the child.


However now the state of Kansas is demanding Mr Marotta pay $6,000 in child support after the lesbian couple were forced onto welfare when Ms Bauer lost her job.


Mr Marotta wanted to help the couple and along with his wife Kimberly turned down their payment of $50 to donate his sperm for free.


He told the Today show: 'If you are two women, it's difficult without a man there, so I donated.'


He added: 'No good deed goes unpunished.'

Mr Marotta said that he would likely never have donated his sperm if he had known the financial burden. His wife Kimberly added: 'This is not at all what we signed up for.'

Marotta is asking that the case be dismissed, arguing that he is not the child's legal father. A hearing is set for January 8.


The mechanic applied to the ad in 2009 after Bauer wrote: 'We are foster and adoptive parents and now we desire to share a pregnancy and birth together.'

Mr Marotta provided sperm which was used for artificial insemination by her partner, Ms Schreiner. In return, he gave up parental rights including financial duties for the child.

Ms Bauer also spoke to the Today show on Thursday about her gratitude to Mr Marotta and how they supported him in his fight against Kansas state.

She said: 'We never intended for him [Marotta] to support her. That's our responsibility we have as her parents. I have the joy of raising her and loving her and it's only because of William.'



Kansas Department for Children and Families spokeswoman Angela de Rocha said on Wednesday that when a single mother seeks benefits for a child, the department routinely tries to determine the child's paternity and require the father to make support payments to lessen the potential cost to taxpayers.

She argued that the law regarding artificial insemination is an incentive for donors and prospective mothers to work with a doctor.

'I believe that is the intent of the law, so that we don't end up with these ambiguous situations,' she said.

Bauer and Schreiner updated Marotta on their daughter's well-being occasionally but he has had little contact, according to the Kansas City Star.

The arrangement changed earlier this year when Ms Schreiner, the only parent registered on her daughter's birth certificate, applied for social welfare.




Ms Bauer had been supporting the child but was left unable to work due to ill health.


On October 3, 2012, attorney Mark McMillan filed a petition on behalf of the Department of Children and Families seeking a ruling that Marotta is the father of Schreiner's child and owes a duty to support her.



It said the department provided cash assistance totaling $189 for the girl for July through September 2012, and had paid medical expenses totaling nearly $6,000.


Schreiner had allegedly been put under pressure to reveal Mr Marotta's name so that her daughter could continue to have health care.


The legal agreement that the three made in 2009 was deemed invalid by Kansas state because they did not use a certified doctor for the insemination.



Ms Bauer and Ms Schreiner, who separated in 2010, plan to help Mr Marotta fight the state's decision.

Hannah Schroller, Mr Marotta's attorney, argued that the case was consistent with a 2007 case in which the Kansas Supreme Court denied parental rights to a man who sought them after providing a sperm donation under similar circumstances.


A licensed physician performed the insemination in the 2007 case.

Schroller wrote that Marotta took the same actions as the man in the 2007 case did, and he - like that man - should be considered a sperm donor, not a father.

She stressed that sperm banks regularly ship donations for the intended purpose of artificial insemination within the United States and abroad to both residential and medical facility addresses.

Schroller argued in court documents that if a donor is free of parental responsibility only when a doctor performs an insemination, 'then any woman in Kansas could have sperm donations shipped to her house, inseminate herself without a licensed physician and seek out the donor for financial support because her actions made him a father, not a sperm donor.


'This goes against the very purpose of the statute to protect sperm donors as well as birth mothers'.

Ms Bauer and Ms Schreiner had been together for eight years and adopted eight children. They ended their relationship in 2010 but continue to co-parent their sons and daughters who range from three months to 25 years old.


The state of Kansas does not recognize same-sex unions, so each of their children was registered for adoption by a single parent.


A motion to dismiss the state's case will be heard in Shawnee County District Court on January 8.



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[Alchemist]

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[BlackVelvet]

1001 ways to mess up a child

[Hyperactive]

alhamdullilah, even gaalo law nderstood responsibility of one's sperm! lol

this is a lesson for any man! keep your sperm to yourself or pay for it next 18 years.

[BlackVelvet]

alhamdullilah, even gaalo law nderstood responsibility of one's sperm! lol

this is a lesson for any man! keep your sperm to yourself or pay for it next 18 years.

Sax

[original dervish]

I would`nt mind donating some........I got millions.

[salool]

Mac sonkor, wixiisa mu iska haysto.

[FarhanYare]

i dont get it why are they all asking for child support, when infact they came to him to buy his commodity plus why did this idiot not state initially he aint supporting those kids

[ofafrique]

WTF.