Article content

Rebecca Dixon always knew something was different about her, and now she knows why.

After months of tests and a few surprises along the way, she said the man she has been calling Dad for more than two decades is not, in fact, her biological father and she believes her parents’ fertility doctor is to blame.

We apologize, but this video has failed to load.

tap here to see other videos from our team. Try refreshing your browser, or Ottawa family alleges fertility doctor used his own sperm to conceive their child Back to video

A lawsuit filed on Tuesday alleges that Ottawa fertility doctor Norman Barwin impregnated Davina Dixon with his own sperm through artificial insemination when she and her husband turned to him for help to conceive a child in the late 1980s.

Rebecca was born on June 1, 1990. She has a dark complexion and brown eyes. Daniel and Davina Dixon both have fair skin and blue eyes.

But it was not until February 2016 that Davina grew suspicious of a possible mix-up at the Broadview Fertility Clinic in Ottawa after she saw a post on Facebook that said it was unusual for two parents each with blue eyes to conceive a child with brown eyes, according to the statement of claim filed in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.