A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 21

This is the third year in a row I’ve run this series in April. Today’s story: Surprise Twins: Man Sues Fertility Clinic:

A father of 4-year-old twins is claiming his ex-girlfriend stole his sperm and impregnated herself at a fertility clinic and is now suing for full custody of his sons.

Joseph Pressil, who currently lives in Long Island, N.Y., had moved to Houston, Texas to be with his ex, and even bought a house there. Now, he says, he has no plans to go back.

“This was so shocking to me,” Joseph Pressil told ABCNews.com. “I met her in Miami, Fla., in May 2006. I remember that day,” said Pressil, 36. “That was the beginning of the end.”

The couple broke up at the end of November that same year and just three months later she told him she was pregnant. They eventually proved paternity with a DNA test, and Pressil, a telecommunications manager, began paying more than $800 a month in child support.

Then, this February, he discovered a receipt in his mailbox for sperm cryopreservation.

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Now, he says, her behavior during sex makes more sense.

“At the time she was giving me these condoms, and she said because of her fibroids these condoms were not lubricated, and would not affect the fibroid enlargement,” he explained. “Every time she would give me these condoms after the sex she would leave the room. She’d come back, give me something to drink. We always had sex in the morning and she’d say she had to go do something. She would leave about 10 or 15 minutes afterward.”

According to the Mayo Clinic website, sperm ejaculated outside of the body can survive, at most, for a few hours.

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He currently has joint custody of the children, and plans to seek full custody “because of all her scandalous ways.”

In the lawsuit he’s asking for a jury to determine how he ought to be compensated for child support and mental anguish.

The entire incident is simply “embarrassing” he said. “How do you let someone do that without knowing?”

Oh, yeah, she was an “exotic dancer.” Is this a post-modern Disney movie? A satire in the vein of War of the Roses in which it becomes dueling lawsuits leading to violence?

What would you do with this story?

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