It’s tough being a fertility doctor these days, what with the possibility of inseminating the patient with the wrong sperm and all. Dr. Ben Ramaley is accused of not only doing that, but doing it with his own sperm. An unidentified couple alleges that Dr. Ben Ramaley used his own sperm to impregnate the woman with twins.

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I know what you’re thinking, I was thinking the same thing. Why would a fertility doctor have samples of his own sperm just lying around the clinic? Seems a little odd to me; what’s the old saying about not doing something where you eat, or something like that?

In 2005, when the alleged incident happened, Dr. Ben Ramaley paid a fine of $10,000 dollars for giving a woman the wrong sperm, which he apparently doesn’t deny. The couple became suspicious because the twins were fair skinned and had light complexions despite the fact that their father is an African-American. DNA testing proved that he was not the biological father.

The case in 05’ was quickly settled and the good Doctor never submitted a DNA sample in the case. Now the Connecticut Attorney General has started digging around in the case again, and the allegations of Dr. Ramaley using his own sperm have resurfaced.

Despite there being a gag order in the case, the declaration that Dr. Ben Ramaley used his own sperm to impregnate the woman has become the focus now. Dr. Ramaley forfeited his New York medical license and agreed in 2008 not to perform artificial inseminations again. Especially if his sperm was anywhere in the vicinity; okay, I added that last part.

Makes you wonder if this is the only couple Dr. Ben Ramaley tricked like this? Could there be a huge army of Ramaley Juniors out there wondering all over the country? If Dr. Ben Ramaley used his own sperm once, who says he wouldn’t have done it many more times? Just never having been caught. Just a thought.