A sperm donor who claims he fathered more than 180 children has lost a High Court bid to be declared a parent on a baby’s birth certificate.
Robert Albon, who advertises his services on social media under the name ‘Joe Donor’, has worked as an unregulated sperm donor since 2013 fathering children across the world from Australia to Argentina.
In October last year Mr Albon, who is from the United States but has lived in the UK since 2020, asked the High Court in London to declare him the father of a child, known only as N, who was born in 2021.
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