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A Corvallis doctor has filed a $5.25 million lawsuit against Oregon Health & Science University, claiming the institution’s fertility clinic broke a promise by using his sperm to conceive 17 children against his wishes.

Bryce Cleary, who works for The Corvallis Clinic, alleges in a suit filed Wednesday that OHSU asked him to donate sperm when he was a first-year medical student in 1989 and he agreed on the condition that no more than five children would be conceived with his sperm and all of the sperm was supposed to be donated to women who lived outside of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest.

The suit also says OHSU also revealed enough about Cleary's identity that some of the children conceived with his sperm were able to contact him in March 2018. Using genetic testing through Ancestry.com, multiple siblings conceived with Cleary’s sperm were able to find each other. Cleary and the siblings collaborated and discovered at least 17 children were born from his sperm, the suit alleges.