A man with serious mental illnesses who donated sperm used to create at least 36 children has confessed to police that he provided false information to a sperm bank.

Chris Aggeles went to a Georgia police department a week ago to admit to fraud, according to an incident report.

“He informed me that he had falsified paperwork for a sperm bank, Xytex,” wrote Det. Brigitte Menzel, of the Athens-Clarke County Police Department.

Ten families have launched lawsuits against Xytex, alleging the Georgia-based sperm bank misinformed them about their donor. Four of the families are from Canada, five are from the United States and one is from Great Britain.

The story has made headlines around the world.

Aggeles’ donor profile on Xytex’s website showed him to have an IQ of 160, the same as Einstein’s. It said he was healthy and without mental illness, had bachelor’s and master’s degrees, and was working on a PhD in neuroscience engineering.

Aggeles was supposed to be an anonymous donor, but Xytex revealed his identity to some mothers in a 2014 email in an apparent privacy breach.

The mothers then began doing research on him and discovered he was nothing like the man advertised in Xytex’s online donor catalogue.

A Star investigation earlier this year confirmed through court documents that Aggeles has had diagnoses of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and narcissistic personality disorder and that he has admitted to having schizoaffective disorder.

The documents were related to court proceedings on a 2005 burglary charge, for which he served eight months in jail.

The claims against Xytex have not been proven in court. The company maintains it has done nothing wrong and says it has always been upfront about letting would-be parents know that it does not verify information provided by men who sell sperm to the company.

Xytex lawyer Ted Lavender said Monday that he had no response to Aggeles’ police report.

Aggeles’ lawyer, James Johnson, also said he had no comment.

According to the report, Aggeles showed up at the police station “to turn himself in.”

Menzel’s notes are partially redacted in accordance with the state’s privacy laws, which require personal information — including health information — to remain confidential.

Aggeles told the detective “that he was not truthful” to Xytex about his education and about something else, which is redacted, crossed out in heavy black ink.

He also told the officer that he had left out information when he filled out paperwork to purchase firearms. There was something “he had,” which “he did not mention,” states the report, again with details redacted.

Menzel wrote that she contacted Aggeles’ wife to inquire about “guns in the home,” but was told they had been sold.

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Aggeles told the officer that his wife was upset with him “because of all the current stress.”

The officer wrote that she was concerned about the possibility of a domestic dispute, but found no evidence of that when she drove Aggeles home.

Captain Jerry Saulters, of the Athens’ Clarke County Police Department, said Menzel had a subsequent meeting with Aggeles and that an investigation into the case is ongoing.

San Francisco lawyer Nancy Hersh, who represents most of the families suing Xytex, said she has sympathy for Aggeles. The company takes advantage of vulnerable people, including the mentally ill, she charged.

The lawyer said Xytex has never admitted to any of her clients that there are problems with Aggeles even though it promises on its website to make parents aware of any medically significant information it learns about donors.

According to a lawsuit filed in San Francisco earlier this year, when one of Hersh's clients contacted Xytex to inquire into media reports about Aggeles, its medical director, Dr. Todd Spradlin responded: “I have received no information to confirm that (Aggeles) has schizophrenia…. It would be irresponsible of Xytex to notify clients of unsubstantiated claims.” Xytex has said it believes the lawsuit will be dismissed and described the allegations as “unfounded.”

With the new police report, Hersh said the company has no excuse to keep parents in the dark.

“Finally, Xytex is indisputably required both morally and in accord with its representations on its website that it advises purchasers of its sperm when it learns of new information that it deems important it will communicate the information to its purchasers. Come on, Xytex. What more do you need?”

It is known that Aggeles’ sperm has been used to create 36 children because that is what the company told Ontario mother, Angie Collins, of Port Hope, in a 2014 email — a copy of which the Star has.

Hersh said there may be more offspring because the donor’s sperm continued to be sold after that time.

Collins, who has a son, age 9, created from Aggeles’ sperm, said sperm banks need to do more checking into donors’ backgrounds.

“It should be obvious by now that the honour system is a highly ineffective way to verify information. No one should be using the honour system as a means of determining whether a person is suitable to donate gametes,” she said.