‘Guy With 1000 Children’ in court docket for seeking to touch his youngsters on YouTube

A Dutchman notorious for fathering a staggering 550 youngsters international is going through a criminal combat after making an attempt to succeed in out to his offspring. Jonathan Jacob Meijer, ‘the person, the parable, the legend’ who starred in a Netflix documentary about his prolific donation historical past, is being sued to prevent him from influencing his many youngsters by way of his YouTube channel.

Some of the moms concerned, along side the donor youngsters’s organisation Stichting Donorkind, is taking Meijer to court docket, tough he halt his makes an attempt to touch or even ‘guardian’ the kids he helped conceive.

This example, which is scheduled to be heard on January 28 within the Netherlands, comes after a prior ruling in 2023 that ordered Meijer to prevent donating sperm or face a hefty €100,000 effective for each and every violation. It seems that, his quota have been met and used to be, let’s say, complete.  

“He has to stick away. That’s what used to be agreed,” mentioned Natalie Dijkdrenth, the mum who initiated the criminal motion, in an interview with Volkskrant. “Jonathan is performing like some roughly uncle, however he’s seeking to play the function of a guardian from a distance. He’s overstepping his bounds and seeking to insert himself into our circle of relatives.”

Dijkdrenth’s considerations are echoed by means of different moms who’ve donated with Meijer, fearing he’s making an attempt to wield affect over their youngsters.

“He’s advising the youngsters to hunt out companions who resemble them and assume like them. He even dismisses positive parenting types and pushes for enormous households,” Dijkdrenth defined. “A few of these children are at an impressionable age, and as a donor, he carries an unearned attract. It’s being worried.”

Meijer, along side his attorney Kasper Ripken, has refused to remark at the case.

However in his arguable YouTube movies, Meijer has long past so far as calling positive moms ‘bully mums’ and accusing them of questionable parenting. He even posted pictures of oldsters along their names, despite the fact that those had been rapidly got rid of after he won court docket papers.

Meijer’s movements practice a Netflix documentary, The Guy With 1000 Children, which chronicles his makes an attempt to have extra youngsters. The documentary has raised eyebrows, and Meijer is now preventing to have it taken down from the streaming platform.

In spite of Dutch fertility sanatorium laws restricting sperm donors to not more than 25 youngsters, Meijer discovered a loophole and unfold his seed all over. Via drawing near a minimum of 11 separate clinics within the Netherlands and likewise donating to Denmark’s Cryos sperm financial institution, which has no kid prohibit, Meijer bypassed the principles, leading to his staggering choice of organic youngsters.

Will the court docket in spite of everything prevent the ‘sperm donor from hell’? It’s a case that has oldsters all over gazing intently.

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