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Netflix’s latest crime documentary explores the trauma caused by a fertility doctor who used his own sperm to impregnate his patients

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Dr Donald Cline is portrayed   by an actor in Netflix documentary Our Father. (PHOTO: Netflixlife.com)
Dr Donald Cline is portrayed by an actor in Netflix documentary Our Father. (PHOTO: Netflixlife.com)

His patients saw him as a hero, the kind and gentle doctor who had allowed them to achieve their dream of motherhood.

American fertility specialist Dr Donald Cline’s office walls were adorned with photographs of the babies whose desperate mothers he’d helped to conceive.

But what many of these women didn’t realise was that instead of using sperm from anonymous donors – as he’d led them to believe he would – he was inseminating them using his own sperm. And scattered across the state were scores of kids he’d fathered.

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