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Netflix’s new docuseries The Man with 1000 Children has left viewers shocked and outraged.
The three-part documentary, launched on Wednesday (July 3), facilities on the controversial case of Dutch musician and sperm donor Jonathan Jacob Meijer, who was banned from making any additional donations after he admitted to having fathered greater than 500 kids.
It additionally mentions one other donor, Leon, who has sired round 415 kids. He’s alleged to have secretly competed with Meijer to see who may have the very best variety of offspring. Meijer denied this to The Unbiased.
Quite a few viewers have reacted angrily to the tales shared within the sequence by the moms affected by Meijer and Leon’s actions.
“Holy smokes!! The Man with 1000 Children is simply enraging,” one individual tweeted. “Jonathan and Leon deserve some type of punishment. That’s disgusting on so many ranges.”
“It’s surprising to say the least and it’s extremely f***ed up,” a second agreed. “The lies and deception individuals make. Some will simply use different individuals’s vulnerability and weak spot for their very own agenda.”
A 3rd was left speechless. “I actually don’t know what to say. I believed Our Father was dangerous,” they stated, referring to the 2022 documentary about fertility specialist Donald Cline who was convicted after it was found that he had covertly inseminated dozens of sufferers along with his sperm. “However this… idek [I don’t even know]. I’ve no phrases. Each episode had a brand new twist that made all the things even worse and I used to be identical to…”
“But extra proof that we must always raze human civilisation to the bottom,” one wrote.
“This man goes to trigger so many issues for these children sooner or later,” one other argued, whereas one added: “They’re assured to run right into a sibling and never know.”
Regardless of it being “really F***ING CRAZY,” another person famous that they “100% suggest” watching the sequence.
Chatting with The Unbiased, one mom, Suzanne, expressed her fear about how Meijer’s misdeeds would impression the lives of the kids.
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“They’ll by no means simply date any individual or have intercourse with any individual, they are going to all the time must take care and even then they may not bear in mind that they’re a donor youngster,” she stated. “It’s a really harmful and unhealthy scenario for these kids, and for his or her kids and grandchildren.”
“It’s a public well being hazard ready to occur,” her companion Natalie added. “It’s not concerning the quantity, it’s concerning the risks that lie beneath the quantity. The larger the quantity, the extra harmful it’s.”
Meijer has denied lots of the accusations made in opposition to him within the documentary.
Addressing essentially the most surprising certainly one of all, that he and Leon combined their sperm collectively earlier than giving it to a recipient as a way to see whose would “win,” he referred to as it “complete slander.”
“It’s insane,” Meijer advised The Unbiased. “Why ought to I try this? Why ought to anybody try this? If it’s within the documentary, be ready, I’ll positively sue the hell out of the entire Netflix crew.”
The Man with 1000 Children is streaming now on Netflix.
