Consumer Law
An Ohio Family Sues a Fertility Specialist For Using the Wrong Sperm
Jessica Harvey Galloway asked her parents for a DNA genealogical test for Christmas in 2020 hoping to finding distant relatives during a planned trip to Italy with her husband.
The test led to a shocking and disturbing discovery, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Akron. It showed her DNA contained none of her father’s Italian heritage. Mike Harvey, the man who helped raised her along with her mother, Jeanine, was not her biological father. Another man’s sperm was used during a fertility procedure.
“Since then, our lives will never be the same,” Galloway said during a virtual news conference with the family and their attorneys on Wednesday.
