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41 Crimes So Wild They Had To Be Made Into Movies And TV Shows

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Bored Panda · Feb 5, 2025

Privacy Lawsuit Over Netflix's Our Father Fertility Fraud Documentary Can Go Forward

"Dr. Cline inseminated many of his female patients with his own semen, ultimately, fathering approximately [94] children"; Netflix allegedly promised the Secret Children anonymity when making its film, but allegedly broke its promise.

Reason · Jun 7, 2023

IVF horror's ode to "Handmaid's Tale"

In the Netflix doc, a fertility doctor used his own sperm on victims without consent. It's not a federal crime

Salon · May 22, 2022

5 creepiest moments from "Our Father"

For years, Dr. Donald Cline got away with using his own sperm to inseminate his patients without their consent

Salon · May 12, 2022

‘Our Father’ review: A fertility specialist fathers almost 100 children without his patients’ consent

At the moment, far too many true crime documentaries function as little more than an episode of “Dateline.” They report information but lack analysis or even thoughtful ideas about how to use the medium of film to tell a story at once shocking and infuriating. Such is the case with…

Chicago Tribune · May 11, 2022

Our Father review – an undeniably gripping tale of a fertility doctor’s shocking crimes

There’s plenty of shock value in this Netflix documentary about a church elder who secretly impregnated many women. But it needed to ask more way questions about the law and anti-female bias

The Guardian - UK · May 11, 2022

Dr Donald Cline exposed as father of more than 50 children in Netflix documentary

The fertility doctor has assumed a low profile since his actions were exposed. Netflix's latest true crime documentary is now available to stream in the UK

Manchester Evening News · May 11, 2022

Sickening true story behind Netflix's Our Father – fertility doctor who used own sperm

Netflix’s latest true crime documentary has revealed the unsettling story behind an ex-fertility doctor who fathered at least 50 children through illegal insemination

Daily Mirror · May 11, 2022

‘Our Father’: Netflix film uses fertility doctor’s own words to explain his sickening secret

Documentary feels like a horror film as it outlines how Dr. Donald Cline inseminated patients with his own sperm, resulting in dozens of children.

Chicago Sun-Times · May 10, 2022

‘Every time I find a new sibling, it’s like I’m ruining their life’: the fertility doctor who went rogue

In 2014, Jacoba Ballard found out her biological father was her parents’ doctor, who’d secretly inseminated countless women. Ahead of a Netflix series, she talks about her fear that the avalanche of siblings will never stop – and why she dreads Christmas

The Guardian - UK · May 10, 2022