Their romance become a complete nightmare after a shocking discovery revealed they were greater than lovebirds — they were siblings.
Throughout her childhood, a running joke between Victoria Hill and her father was that she may not be his child. In spite of everything, the pair were nothing alike.
Shrugging it off as a genetic mystery, it wasn’t until Hill, now 39, submitted a DNA testing kit to 23andMe and discovered a dark family secret: her brother was not the one sibling she had.
She actually shares 23 half-siblings from the identical father — a fertility doctor named Burton Caldwell who allegedly inseminated Hill’s mother without her consent — including her highschool boyfriend, whom she admitted she was “intimate” with.
“I even have slept with my half-sibling,” Hill, a clinical social employee who lives in Connecticut, told CNN. “I went to elementary school with one other.”
She later learned she lived across the road from a deli owned by more half-siblings.
“I used to be traumatized by this,” Hill said. “Now I’m taking a look at pictures of individuals pondering, well, if he may very well be my sibling, anybody may very well be my sibling.”
Hill moved to Wallingford, Connecticut, and met her then-boyfriend, who had been her best friend “for years” before they decided to this point in highschool. They subsequently split after they headed to varsity.
“We never ended up marrying and having children, but he’s someone who, even to this present day, I very much would have considered that, had life taken us in that direction,” she told her local NBC News outlet.
In keeping with CNN, Hill’s case is probably going one of the extreme instances of fertility fraud, which has been committed by at the very least 30 physicians that the outlet could confirm.
Janine Pierson, who now lives in Canton, Connecticut, can also be certainly one of Hill’s half-siblings. After taking a DNA test in 2022, not only did she discover her connection to Hill but in addition to a boy she attended summer camp with.
“It was like my entire life just got here to this screeching halt,” the 36-year-old previously told CNN, calling it “a violation.”
“It shouldn’t just be, you already know, the Wild West where these doctors can just do whatever it’s that they need,” she added.
Each she and Hill told NBC News they confronted Caldwell about their discoveries, and he, in accordance with Pierson, “completely admitted it.”
She drove an hour to the doctor’s house to handle the problem in-person, she told CNN, because she “didn’t want to present him the chance to say no.”
“He had no remorse in any respect,” Pierson told NBC News of her sit-down with Caldwell at his home.
“Asked me very pointed questions on my life and my achievements and what number of grandchildren he had, but offered no form of apology in any respect. He said he really didn’t take into consideration how lots of us there could be or what that impact could be like.”
Pierson and her mother have since filed a lawsuit against the doctor and in March, each Pierson and Hill testified to lawmakers in Hartford concerning the importance of a latest law that might bar doctors from knowingly inseminating patients with their sperm without consent.
“In my testimony today, I’m asking for them to expand on the word physician, because there’s other cases where it’s not only physicians, it’s anybody that works in a clinic that has access. There was a case just last 12 months that hasn’t come out yet where it was a lab tech,” Hill said on the time.
“Any type of fraud where someone knowingly and intentionally is messing with just like the gametes. And again, that’s one other correction, not only sperm, but gametes, eggs, embryos, and sperm because we’ve got cases of that as well.”
Their romance become a complete nightmare after a shocking discovery revealed they were greater than lovebirds — they were siblings.
Throughout her childhood, a running joke between Victoria Hill and her father was that she may not be his child. In spite of everything, the pair were nothing alike.
Shrugging it off as a genetic mystery, it wasn’t until Hill, now 39, submitted a DNA testing kit to 23andMe and discovered a dark family secret: her brother was not the one sibling she had.
She actually shares 23 half-siblings from the identical father — a fertility doctor named Burton Caldwell who allegedly inseminated Hill’s mother without her consent — including her highschool boyfriend, whom she admitted she was “intimate” with.
“I even have slept with my half-sibling,” Hill, a clinical social employee who lives in Connecticut, told CNN. “I went to elementary school with one other.”
She later learned she lived across the road from a deli owned by more half-siblings.
“I used to be traumatized by this,” Hill said. “Now I’m taking a look at pictures of individuals pondering, well, if he may very well be my sibling, anybody may very well be my sibling.”
Hill moved to Wallingford, Connecticut, and met her then-boyfriend, who had been her best friend “for years” before they decided to this point in highschool. They subsequently split after they headed to varsity.
“We never ended up marrying and having children, but he’s someone who, even to this present day, I very much would have considered that, had life taken us in that direction,” she told her local NBC News outlet.
In keeping with CNN, Hill’s case is probably going one of the extreme instances of fertility fraud, which has been committed by at the very least 30 physicians that the outlet could confirm.
Janine Pierson, who now lives in Canton, Connecticut, can also be certainly one of Hill’s half-siblings. After taking a DNA test in 2022, not only did she discover her connection to Hill but in addition to a boy she attended summer camp with.
“It was like my entire life just got here to this screeching halt,” the 36-year-old previously told CNN, calling it “a violation.”
“It shouldn’t just be, you already know, the Wild West where these doctors can just do whatever it’s that they need,” she added.
Each she and Hill told NBC News they confronted Caldwell about their discoveries, and he, in accordance with Pierson, “completely admitted it.”
She drove an hour to the doctor’s house to handle the problem in-person, she told CNN, because she “didn’t want to present him the chance to say no.”
“He had no remorse in any respect,” Pierson told NBC News of her sit-down with Caldwell at his home.
“Asked me very pointed questions on my life and my achievements and what number of grandchildren he had, but offered no form of apology in any respect. He said he really didn’t take into consideration how lots of us there could be or what that impact could be like.”
Pierson and her mother have since filed a lawsuit against the doctor and in March, each Pierson and Hill testified to lawmakers in Hartford concerning the importance of a latest law that might bar doctors from knowingly inseminating patients with their sperm without consent.
“In my testimony today, I’m asking for them to expand on the word physician, because there’s other cases where it’s not only physicians, it’s anybody that works in a clinic that has access. There was a case just last 12 months that hasn’t come out yet where it was a lab tech,” Hill said on the time.
“Any type of fraud where someone knowingly and intentionally is messing with just like the gametes. And again, that’s one other correction, not only sperm, but gametes, eggs, embryos, and sperm because we’ve got cases of that as well.”
