I watched tV documentary last night about this doctor.I had never heard of this case before.I live outsid of the USA.
Towards the end of the show,the show reported that he was a Mormon which suprised me.

He was a lay official such as a stake president or bishop.
He had a temple recomend and probaly attended the Mormon temple in Washinton DC.

I always learned when I was a Mormon that the Mormon temples wer e like the Celestial kingdom and that no unclean person who sinned could enter without being forced out by angels watching over the temple.

The doctor commiteed fraud and spent 5 years in prison.

Yes, I knew. Big news in this part of the country when it all went down

He committed fraud by using his own sperm to impregnate his patients. I wonder who those children are sealed to, him or the women and their husbands? Huh! Psychopath Mormon style.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Jacobson

He was my MILs infertility specialist. She lived in Northern Virginia at the time. And, no she never did conceive. My wife was adopted.

What a POS he (the doctor) was though. Talk about narcissism.

John Goodman played him. It was called the "DR. of Sperm". Very funny

Doesn't this guy come to the board once and a while?

It was most definitely some bored Zoobie trolling the place... I outed him real quick with a question on where he grew up; he went to high school with my father...

Yeah I thought someone using the name or pretending to be a fert doc, anyway. Got chased off, that's what I remember.
Thanks.

They started referring to him as "the Sperminator".

his son is my brother in law. and when my TB father in law went to their house in the river bottoms. he thought that he was so great with all the people he rubs elbows the cannons, kert bestor bla bla bla. my wife and i already knew but i wasnt going to spill the beans since i already was the exmo son in law that had ruined hes celestial family and anything that came out of my mouth couldnt be true. the way he found out was priceless, we were at another sister in laws for dinner and my father in law was watching lifetime ( since he couldnt work the remote) and the movie came on. he heard the name and was sucked in so we had to break it to him right then and there. it felt so good to tell him someone he thought was so important within the mormon clan was just a low life piece of shit

Wow, interesting story!

I clearly remember this story. It was just another chink in the armor of what later made realize TSCC is that bad.

Mind blown. This guy is an uncle of mine through marriage. I had even heard the story a couple months ago. The guy who told me referred to him as "The Father of Many Nations". I hadn't connected the dots. Holy flaming balls of shit.

He is an older cousin - my mom came from a large family and she was the youngest. From what I understand, it is a case of scientific hubris.

Crazy, we might be related by marriage.

I don't think you can really blame Science just because a madman misused it

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0109193/

It creeped me out so badly!

I had no idea that Dr. Jacobson was a MO. Just 2 thoughts

1. At the time this story broke, my best friend was a Dr. Jacobson and he had eye problems, we had a good laugh about that.

2. I had no idea that the guy was religious but this reinforces my view that religion really does not make people more moral. No matter what your actions, in your mind, god will justify those actions.

Perhaps religion makes people less moral by creating institutional morals that are immoral, but become moral to the adherant because the immoral act/actions protect their "moral institution".

I want to know more about this. He is my freaking relative (none of that once removed stuff). Does anyone have more information? What did he say to the press, how did he explain instances of his sperm when there weren't anonymous donors etc, etc...

He is an older cousin - my mom was pretty close to him even after the conviction, and I knew him from reunions and stayed at his house when they lived in Va. If you leave a contact email I could probably answer some of your questions.

OH I knew him very well. My 28 year old daughter resembles him and has eye issues. Yes DNA proved he is the biological reason she is alive. I hope he rots in HELL for what he put us through back then. Prison was not good enough nor long enough. DO NOT EVER TRUST THAT P.O.S. I was the first parent in the trial to testify against him and I am glad my testamony help put him away and get his license to stop him from ever working in the medical field. I will hate him until the day I die for his diseption!!

A good movie to get on this story is "the Babymaker" with Melissa Gilbert. She portraid me in the movie and we made sure that the child was changed to a little boy to protect our daughter from mean family members as we did not reveal that she was the product of artificial insemination.

How horrible that you have had to carry this burden and that your daughter has too.

I was recently told by my mother that she used Cecil Jacobson as a doctor for artificial insemination when he worked at GW in the 70s. I also have a rare eye problem that has left my doctors confused for decades. Does anyone else know anything about eye problems in this man or his offspring? I now have children and am concerned RE what I have and what I may pass on. Thanks!

WOW! How does your daughter feel about all of this?

And I think I speak for the whole community here in saluting your courage for testifying.

As I noted, my dad knew him growing up, and while a group of us howled at an old "Saturday's Voyeur" play that featured him as the centerpiece lampoon, the whole story is really horrible and not that funny.

Sometimes there's real meat in "resurrected threads."

Uh oh I just looked at the dates. I guess I won't hold my breath for a reply. Ha

Law and Order did an episode based on his case. In it he carried the recessive gene for cystic fibrosis. Don't know about the eye problem.

That was a creepy episode. I saw it right around the time I first saw this thread. I am always horrified to see how many of the law and order SVU episodes are based in reality.

It has been a while, but the thing that struck me about the episode was that the kids with the recessive genes lived in the same area and attended the same schools so the chances of some of them marrying a half sibling and producing a CF child was high. Really creepy. I assume the same issue minus CF was true for Jacobsen.

My parents have had near financial ruin because of two bishops. This doesn't surprise me at all.