Our Father True Story: What The Netflix Movie Leaves Out
Netflix's Our Father tells the chilling true story of an infertility doctor who fathered over 94 children. The doctor in question, Donald Cline, secretly used his own sperm on unconsenting clients. The client's husbands would provide sperm for the insemination procedure, but Dr. Donald Cline would discard it and replace it with his own to impregnate their wives. He would then destroy all records of the procedure to protect himself from a future investigation of his deceit. However, little did he know that DNA testing would soon become a popular trend, and at-home DNA tests would spell his doom, with the Netflix documentary telling the story of how his donor children eventually exposed the shocking truth.
Our Father shares the stories of the donor siblings fathered by Dr. Donald Cline and how a simple well-intentioned DNA test changed their lives forever. The story mainly focuses on Jacoba Ballard, the first sibling to investigate her ancestry. After learning her mother had conceived her through a donor insemination procedure, Jacoba became passionate about finding her biological father and potential half-siblings. Unbeknownst to her, she would soon uncover the dark hidden secret of Dr. Donald Cline's appalling deception and unmask 94 (and counting) half-siblings.
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Netflix's brutal documentary Our Father explores how Jacoba Ballard and her half-siblings worked together to expose Dr. Donald Cline's wrongdoing which eventually led to his arrest in 2017. However, considering the absurdity that there is no written law that a doctor can't use his own sperm to impregnate his clients without consent, he was only charged with obstruction of justice for lying to investigators,
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