A doctor secretly fathered hundreds of children from around the world. It wasn’t until one woman went on Amazon that she found out the truth.
The driver’s licence Fiona Darroch had of her ‘godfather’ that she discovered looked like her youngest daughter.“I went and had a chat to my mum and I said, ‘Look, something’s going on here and I’d like you to tell me the truth’. My mum came clean and told me that they had used a sperm donor, and that Dr Walker was her gynaecologist.”
“It just so happened that one of my donor siblings had given his entire family ancestry tests for Christmas that year, and we all matched at the same time.”Ms Darroch and her half-brother then started putting the pieces together. In 2018 Ms Darroch and her donor siblings who share the same mother, as well as a half-brother and sister pair from the US met in Australia for the first time.
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