I thought the whole point of parenting was to try to prevent your teen from getting pregnant?
A mother in the UK was so desperate for another child, that she forced her 14-year-old daughter to get pregnant using sperm from a donor.
In a ruling reported for the first time Monday, High Court judge Peter Jackson said the mother had behaved in “a wicked and selfish way” that almost defied belief.
The judge said the woman, an American divorcee living in Britain with three adopted children, hatched the plan after she was prevented from adopting a fourth.
The scheme involved getting her oldest daughter to inseminate herself with syringes of sperm purchased over the Internet from a Denmark-based company, Cryos International.
Inseminate herself!? Sperm bought on the internet? Is this regular practice?
The judge said the daughter, identified only as A, “became pregnant at the mother’s request, using donor sperm bought by the mother, with the purpose of providing a fourth child for the mother to bring up as her own.”
But the sad thing is that the girl thought that if she did this for her mother, she would love her more, according to the judge.
“My mum is a very determined person and she does her best not to let anything get in her way if she wants it,” the teenager added.
The judge said the mother also made the teenager use douches of vinegar or lemon and lime juice in hopes of increasing her chances of having a girl.
Eventually, the teenager had a healthy baby boy at the age of 17. When her mother showed odd behavior, like trying to breastfeed her grandchild, the authorities were alerted.
She’s now serving a five-year jail term. And serves her right. I just can’t with her parenting skills, or lack of.
SOURCE: HuffPost
