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A late fertility specialist and alleged child molester is accused of impregnating unwitting patients with his own sperm over the course of forty years, the New York Post reports.
Dr. Quincy Fortier was a Nevada physician and confirmed the biological father of 24 men and women across the nation. His children range from in their 30s to septuagenarians, who have started a society of Fortier half-siblings. According to the group, the membership total seems to go up every month.
“[Sibling] matches tend to come out after Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, and Black Friday when they do big promos for genealogy kits,” said Wendi Babst. In 2018 she took a DNA test after realizing she didn’t look like the man she always considered her father—in her eyes, she resembled Fortier, her mother’s unwanted sperm donor.
The test confirmed Babst’s worst fear. Fortier was, in fact, her biological father. She has grappled with the results ever since, even contemplating plastic surgery to eliminate his distinctive features. Babst appeared in “Baby God,” an HBO documentary set to air on Wednesday about the scandal, the news outlet reports.
“I want to change my nose [because] there is this monster who is living within me,” the 54-year-old said. She told the outlet she has “complicated” feelings when it comes to her biological father. “I can’t really hate him because I wouldn’t exist without him,” she said. “But I’ve studied nature versus nurture, so it’s scary.”
Babst is one of many who were shocked by the mind-blowing revelation of their biological father, which has also revealed the OB-GYN’s sinister secrets, who was once praised for his ability to help women conceive.
“With or without the patients’ knowledge or consent, doctors would use their own sperm to ‘help’ a woman conceive,” Baby God director Hannah Olson told the Post. “They couldn’t predict the future and the ease with which people are now able to analyze their DNA.”
Olson spoke on the extremeness of a “widespread phenomenon” that she believes went on into the 80s.
Babst’s mother, Cathy Holm, 77, was shocked to learn Fortier fathered her child but admitted she was confused why her daughter did not resemble her father or his side of the family “at all.” She also spoke on her daughter’s intelligence, saying she couldn’t understand it because “we were average.”
Holm was 22 when Fortier, who was 54 at the time, impregnated her at his women’s hospital in Pioche, Nevada. At the time, she thought he was inseminating her with her husband’s sperm.
“[The doctor] was in and out of the exam room two or three times. [I thought] why does he keep going in and out?” she says.
Fortier fathered kids into his 70s and started his practice in 1948. Included in his ill practice was Dorothy Otis, who was a patient of his seeking help with a suspected infection—she left his office pregnant even though she wasn’t trying to conceive.
Otis gave birth to her son Mike who is now 71. Her son discovered Fortier was his biological father after trying to confirm his Native American Indian roots. The discovery has left him grieving the loss of what he thought was “part of his identity.”
But he is also outraged for his mother, 94, because she stated she wasn’t ready to have a child back then and never got the chance to continue her education.
What is also shocking is the story of Jonathan Stensland, now 55. At the age of 17, he was determined to track down his biological parents. He learned his birth mother was Connie Fortier, only 18 years his senior. But he instantly felt there was a dark cloud hanging over her pregnancy. Eventually, she confided in him that she had gotten pregnant by Dr. Fortier, her adopted father, despite having never had intercourse.
“There was some crazy tale about Quincy giving her an examination and getting some swabs mixed up,” recalled Stensland. “He tried to say there was a possibility that it was a virgin birth.”
Stensland finally went to meet his biological father, “He had muscles like mine — like Popeye — and it was very clear we shared the same DNA,” he said. “He was whistling and, if I didn’t know better, I probably would have quite liked the guy.”
When the doctor turned 87, he was hit with a lawsuit claiming he had sexually abused his son Quincey E. Fortier, Jr. from the time he was three to fourteen. The son also alleged he had witnessed his father abuse his siblings and other kids. But a jury denied those claims in 2002.
Quincy Jr., now 67, also appears in the documentary and calls his dad “crazy” and “a pervert” and says he would not be surprised if there are “hundreds” of half-siblings.
“[My father] molested everyone. The happiest he ever made me was lying in his coffin dead. That’s when I knew I was safe.”
Fortier died in 2016. His obituary claimed only eight children, 15 grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.
