Documents released by a British court this week revealed a woman who, in a desperate attempt at a fourth child, impregnated her adopted teenage daughter using syringes of donor sperm purchased from the Internet. (Photo : Commons Wikimedia)

Documents released by a British court this week revealed a woman who, in a desperate attempt at a fourth child, impregnated her adopted teenage daughter using syringes of donor sperm purchased from the Internet.

In his ruling, the judge quoted the daughter as having said, “If I do this … maybe she will love me more,” according to the AP. The girl added, “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 judge explained the scheme was developed after the American divorcee living in the UK was prevented from adopting a fourth child. the girl was 13 when the plan was first revealed to her and by 14 had already undergone a miscarriage.

In 2009, at 15, the teen sent her mother a Mother’s Day card in which she inserted a photograph of a positive pregnancy test.

According to the Daily Mail, the plan fell apart when the girl gave birth to a boy – much to her mother’s chagrin – in a hospital, where midwives became suspicious of the mother’s domineering behavior that included disallowing the new mother to breast feed.

“I was scared to go home, because I knew I wouldn’t be able to raise him as my child and I was scared at how my mum might raise him,” the girl said.

The fear finally drove her to confide in a family friend.

According to the judge, the woman was jailed for five years for bullying her daughter into the surrogate pregnancy plan as well as cruelty toward another of her adopted children.

Artificial insemination gained popularity in the 1970s and includes the use of a thin, flexible tube in order to place donor sperm into a woman’s reproductive tract.

Intracervical insemination (ICI) is one of the most commonly performed types of artificial insemination in which the sperm is deposited directly into the cervix.

Intrauterine insemination refers to a procedure often used with couples experiencing unidentifiable infertility and involves the placement of sperm into the fallopian tubes.